Examples Of Homelessness In Maus By Art Spiegelman

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The Jew Holocaust is one of the horrific events in which many great works of literature present the aftermath of the Holocaust using a different medium. One of the outstanding pieces of literature by Art Spiegelman the Maus written in the 1980s, which is a different literary composition, based on the Holocaust events. With his graphic novel, Maus, Art Spiegelman explored his father's experience as a Holocaust survivor

The Holocaust is one of the postmodern occurrences that narrate the struggles of the Jews as narrated by the literacy work of Spiegelman; he attempts to understand the Holocaust through the eyes of his father. Using animation framework, he describes

Food was in short supply because the Nazi limited what to buy therefore Vladek traded sugar and jewelry on the black market to feed his family. However, as much as he tried to keep his family safe he was eventually captured. Both Vladek and his wife Anja were taken to the concentration camps and lived as refugees in Auschwitz. While living in the camp, Vladek constantly looked for opportunities for him and his wife to be treated better. He saved food even when he did not have much to

When he takes the necessary measures and is ready to face the consequences of his actions. He once forced into hiding in someone' barn. He found many ways of surviving even while living in the camp. At one point he pretended he was a German to a Nazi guard who beat him until he confessed he was a Jew. Somehow he survived the beating, although he was weak. Vladek determination was evident in several occasions, even after being freed by the Nazi, after being released; they were put on a packed train with no food. He decided to eat snow because he felt thirty; however, he also used the snow in exchange for sugar. Although snow was into food it kept them going for a