What does Art think about his relationship with his father and his attempt to write the book?
In the beginning of the book, Art talks to his wife about his relationship with his father. He feels very confused while writing the book, especially since he wasn’t in the holocaust himself. He has a hard time relating to his parents’ experiences during the Holocaust. Also, Art feels guilty because he has had a much better and easier life. He told his wife that as a kid he used to think about which parent he’d let the Nazis take, and he would choose his father. He would choose his father because he had a better relationship with his mother as a child. His father is very difficult, and it is hard for them to get along, but when they talk about Vladek’s experiences during the Holocaust, they seem to get along a lot better.
What insights do we in this chapter about the issues confronting the chilren of Holocaust survivors?
In this chapter, we learn that it is hard for the children of Holocaust survivors to relate to
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their parents, and their experiences. For example, it is very hard for Art to write his book, especially considering that he wasn’t even in the Holocaust. When parents talk to their children about the times they had during the Holocaust, the children feel bad, but it is hard for them to depict the images, and really see what it felt like back then. Vladek is often telling Art about his experiences for his book, and Art usually feels like he needs every detail in order to write his book, and draw the images. This is because he wants to make sure that every detail is correct, and he is able to portray the Holocaust like it really was. Why does Art say to Francoise, “In real life you’d never have let me talk this long”? Art says to Francoise, “In real life you’d never have let me talk this long”. I think that he tells her this because usually she might interrupt him when he is talking, but during this conversation that they had, she stayed quiet. She was acting peacefully, and let him vent his feelings about his father and the Holocaust. Francoise is acting like a therapist, listening to him, and giving him advice that could help him. She understands that her husband is stressed and has strong feelings towards the whole situation, so Art is very glad that she has kept quiet, and let him talk for a long time. What information do we get at the beginning of Chapter Two? In the beginning of chapter 2, we get a lot of information.
When I was reading this, I couldn’t believe all that happened in the first few pages. We learn that Vladek dies of congestive heart failure on August 18, 1982. This was hard on Art, and he started to feel that he did many wrong this to his father for example, when Art met with his therapist, he told him that he mostly remembers arguing with him, and he now feels bad about it. The therapist suggest that maybe since Art is becoming successful, he is feeling bad about proving his father wrong. Also, five years later, Francoise and Art are expecting a baby. This can take Art’s mind off of his father’s death. Another thing that we learn is that his first book, Maus I was selling very well, and was very popular. There were many foreign editions, and he got 4 serious offers to turn the book into a TV special or movie! He declined the offer for a movie because he wanted it kept as a book, and nothing
else. Art asks his father why the Jews didn’t try to resist. How does Vladek respond? Why? Vladek tells Art that if the Jews resisted, it would do no good. There were many Germans with guns and weapons, and the Jews had nothing. The Jews who tried to resist were killed, and people that they were associated with, or even seen with were also killed. Vladek also said, “In some spots people DID fight... but you can kill maybe one German before they kill fast a hundred from you, then it’s EVERYONE dead” (73). This shows that when the Jews fought and killed ONE German, soon hundreds of Jews would be dead in response. He also told Art that it wasn’t easy to resist because all of the Jews were starving, tired, and scared and they couldn’t believe what was in front of their eyes every single day.
It is interesting to read the connections of Night, by Elie Wiesel because they include the experiences of the Holocaust from other people's’ points of views. In A Spring Morning, by Ida Fink, it is shocking that the innocence has been stripped away from the child as the speaker reveals, “Fire years old! The age for teddy bears and blocks” (Wiesel 129). This child is born innocent, she has not harmed anyone, yet she has to suffer. Reading about the Holocaust is difficult, I wonder how others had the motivation to live during it. The description of a little girl getting shot is heartbreaking as the speaker explains, “At the edge of the sidewalk lay a small, bloody rag…. He [Aron] had to keep on walking, carrying his dead child” (Wiesel 133).
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
Imagine being trapped in a ghetto, seeing communities leaving in trains, families being split up, never to see each other again.. The emotions that each and every Holocaust survivor must’ve gone through is overwhelming. Some things that are taken for granted, will never be seen again. While reading the two texts, Night by Elie Wiesel and “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” by Pavel Friedman, The two predominant emotions that prevailed most to Holocaust victims and survivors were hope and fear.
It is almost unimaginable the difficulties victims of the holocaust faced in concentration camps. For starters they were abducted from their homes and shipped to concentration camps in tightly packed cattle cars. Once they made it to a camp, a selection process occurred. The males were separated from the females. Then those who were too young or too old to work were sent to the showers. Once the showers were tightly packed, the Nazi’s would turn on the water and drop in canisters of chemicals that would react with the water and release a deadly gas. Within minutes, everyone in the shower would be dead. The bodies would be hauled out and burned. Those who were not selected to die didn’t fair much better. Terrible living conditions, forced labor, malnourishment, and physical abuse were just a few of the things they had to endure. It was such a dark time. So many invaluable lessons can be learned from the holocaust and from those who survived it. One theme present in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night and Robert Benigni’s film Life is Beautiful is that family can strengthen or hinder one during adversity.
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One was considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself. Elie Wiesel was considered to be one of those men, for he had his father working side by side with him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his father were condemned to a concentration camp located in Poland. In the concentration camps, having family members along can be a great blessing, but also a burden. Elie Wiesel shows that the relationship with his father was the strength that kept the young boy alive, but was also the major weakness.
Throughout Maus, Art carries with him a bag, or luggage. This baggage is both literal and nonliteral, each meaning as important as the next. In the first panel of Chapter 3, Art carries a bag, and the caption says that he started to visit his father more often to get information about his past. Vladek’s past also weighs heavily on Art. He has grown closer with his father, and as he learns more about him, the more Art must physically and emotionally carry the baggage tied with his father’s history. Furthermore, the baggage represents how Vladek too carries around the past, and how it never truly leaves him. The emotional baggage of his experience influences him daily. This knowledge builds and builds into a large, heavy suitcase that everyone
It is in a child's nature to be dependant of its parents and family members. They rely on them to protect and take care of them, so when they are suddenly ripped out of that comfort and protection, imagine the impact it would have on them. During the Holocaust, there was nothing the parents could do to protect their children; it was inevitable if they were Jewish they were always at risk. But on top of their vulnerability, children were frequently separated from their family and loved ones. Whether it be going into a concentration camp or going into hiding, the Holocaust has many examples of families being torn apart. One example would be with twins. Twins we often used for scientific experimentation, and when they were brought into concentration camps they were immediately identified and separated. The children that were used for these experiments very rarely survived them, and if they did they never saw their twin again. In just a short amount of time they were ripped away from their families and comfort and thrown into this chaos and unbearable setting (Nancy Sega...
Between 1939 and 1945, five to six million Jewish people died, and about seventy thousand men, women, children, handicapped, and the mentally disabled died in the conflict known as the Holocaust. The victims and survivors of the Holocaust had a positive standpoint on the horrible conflict. Members of the Holocaust with famous accounts were Anne Frank, Leib Lejzon ( Leon Leyson). Anne Frank and Leib Lejzon had both an very hard childhood, but both children responded to conflict with a good viewpoint. They responded like many people have a hard time doing, they make the best out of a bad time. Leib and Anne were both very young and around the same age when they were put in the concentration camps. In an time of war or any conflict you should respond to an situation with a positive outlook because with a negative outlook, there’s going to be an negative
"A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Victims." A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Victims. University of South Florida. Web. 19 May 2014.
Regine Donner, a famous Holocaust survivor, once said, “I had to keep my Jewishness hidden, secret, and never to be revealed on penalty of death. I missed out on my childhood and the best of my adolescent years. I was robbed of my name, my religion, and my Zionist idealism” (“Hidden Children”). Jewish children went through a lot throughout the Holocaust- physically, mentally, and emotionally. Life was frightening and difficult for children who were in hiding during the rule of Adolf Hitler.
Pollock uses different aspects of writing to back up her thesis and to emphasis that there is more to the subject the artist use in their creation. By using a variety of resources and counter-arguing them, she is backing up her own thesis and proving that there is a stereotype in art history where art historians do not explain past the artistic influence thus does not fully explain an artist or their artworks. She makes a point that because of this, there has to be changes to art practices today in order to fully understand the meaning behind artworks.
However, Artie’s selfish words always blocked his father out and he never listened to anything his father had to say unless it was about the war. Similarly, I was really surprised at Artie’s reaction when his father told him Mala left. When Mala left Valdek and Valdek was trying to tell Artie about how it happened, Artie just completely ignored his father and wanted to hear more about the war. While I was reading the whole story, I was just feeling as if Mala reminded Artie of his mother and that’s why every time his father brought Mala up he always wanted to change the subject. Deep down inside, just like Valdek do not want to be reminded of the past, I think Artie feels that same way but just doesn’t want to admit it. Because Artie’s mother died with him having a guilty conscience, he just wants to forget it but he can’t, which is why I think he wanted his mother’s diaries so
Imagine waking up on a normal day, in your normal house, in your normal room. Imagine if you knew that that day, you would be taken away from your normal life, and forced to a life of death, sickness, and violence. Imagine seeing your parents taken away from you. Imagine watching your family walk into their certain death. Imagine being a survivor. Just think of the nightmares that linger in your mind. You are stuck with emotional pain gnawing at your sanity. These scenerios are just some of the horrific things that went on between 1933-1945, the time of the Holocaust. This tragic and terrifying event has been written about many times. However, this is about one particularly fascinating story called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.
Readers can learn that between the two years of 1944 to 1945, was unbelievably hard for Jewish people. Rationing portions of food because you didn’t know when the Germans would bring more food is sickening. German soldiers not only killed adults and children, but they kill babies. Innocent little babies that have not done any harm to anyone. Everything that took place has left a tragic spot in my heart. Readers should know that not giving up is always the answer. In order for you to understand why, you must figure out how to make it through. Many times there will be feelings of defeat but put them behind and continue
Right from the first book we are told they do not get along very well. They do not see each other very often and we know this because Vladek says at the start of the book “I haven’t seen Artie in almost two years.” and when they do see each other they seem to argue a lot. Art even says early in the book “we weren’t that close” Art finds it hard to get along with his father because he can not forgive his father and calls him “murderer…” for burning Anja’s diaries so we can see that Art has his issues with his father but at the same time he feels guilt about having these issues against him. With reference to in text proof, general guilt is obvious. It is obvious that Spiegelman is trying to convey these emotions to the