Spiegelman's 'Prisoner On The Hell Planet'

122 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Refugee narrative essay

In 1973, Spiegelman produced a strip for Short Order Comix #1[53] about his mother's suicide called "Prisoner on the Hell Planet". The same year, he edited a pornographic, psychedelic book of quotations, and dedicated it to his mother.[38] He spent the rest of the 1970s building his reputation making short avant-garde comics. He moved back to New York from San Francisco in 1975, which he admitted to his father only in 1977, by which time he had decided to work on a "very long comic book".[15] He began another series of interviews with his father in 1978,[45] and visited Auschwitz in 1979.[54] He serialized the story in a comics and graphics magazine he and his wife Mouly began in 1980 called Raw.[55]

Show More
Related

  • Freddy In Peril Part 1 And 2 By Dietlof Reiche

    221 Words  | 1 Pages

    In the passages Freddy in Peril part 1 and 2 by Dietlof Reiche, it was about a crazy doctor named professor Fleischkopf trying to get the hamster named Freddy. In the passage in paragh 3 Freddy told the readers of the passages that he was ¨IN mortal danger.¨ Then later in the passage you could tell that he was in mortal danger and that we knew that Freddy was a hamster you could tell that professor Fleischkopf was at the top of the stairs. Then not that far in the passage it say ¨Two things happened first, I heard someone insert something in the lock; and second, a smell hit me.

    Read More

  • Contemporary Fiction in Gary D. Schmidt's Book on Trouble

    1253 Words  | 3 Pages

    A lighthouse’s piercing beam of light shines over the murky land, providing respite—albeit brief—from the harsh battering of the neighboring terrain. Trouble, by Gary D. Schmidt, wraps this picture eloquently in the form of a compelling and captivating contemporary fiction book. Trouble primarily centers around a boy named Henry Smith, who never really understood the formidable potential of the omnipotent entity Trouble in his safe and idyllic life. Henry had always fallen into the dark shadow of his brother, Franklin, as a result of Franklin’s physical prowess. “…especially since he could never hope to match the records that Franklin—Franklin Smith, O Franklin Smith, the great lord of us all, Franklin Smith—had put up on the wooden Athletic Records panels for his rugby play.” (7). Henry’s brother, however, was extremely arrogant, and put his brother down at every chance he got, which causes Trouble to appear. “‘You do that climb, you have guts…you don't have any guts.’ Franklin punched his arm. Too hard. Then he laughed and walked away.” (38). Although the word “Trouble” usually brings to mind pictures of kids attempting to pull their parents’ hair out, it strikes the Smith family in a very different way: with the death of their Franklin due to being run over by Chay Chouan, a Cambodian immigrant. The family is utterly devastated with Trouble’s unforeseen arrival. “And his father hadn't shaved—which was, Henry thought, the first time that had ever happened.” (11). Having been promised to be taken to Mount Katahdin, the tallest mountain in Maine, right before Franklin had died, Henry takes the news the worst. His thoughts completely revolve around Katahdin, and how he would hike it at any cost, if just to...

    Read More

  • Book Report: Hideout by Gordon Korman

    934 Words  | 2 Pages

    The book HIDEOUT, written by Gordon Korman, begins with an adventurous group of middle school kids that come to the rescue of one of their friends to hide a fierce Doberman before a crooked businessman can bring him harm. The story starts out in the beginning of August, in Cedarville, New York, with the school friends all heading off to summer camps but they did not know they would be sneaking a dog along with them. There are two main characters in each of the summer camps and the story takes place in all three of these camps. These summer camps are in the woods of New York’s Catskill Mountains. They are Camp Ebony Lake, Camp Ta-da and Camp Endless Pines. These three camps may be in the same woods but they are spread out and are miles away from each other. There is a different theme to each camp and it makes the book more interesting because the setting is always changing.

    Read More

  • What Is The Theme Of Hell In Fahrenheit 451

    97 Words  | 1 Pages

    The book “Fahrenheit 451” was about this hero named Guy Montag who in this book is a fireman. In his world, where television and literature rules is on the edge of extinction, fireman start fires instead of putting them out and Guy Montag’s job is to destroy the books and the houses which they are hidden in. Montag goes through “hell” in this story but he meets a young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and where people see the world in books instead of the chatter on television.

    Read More

  • Summary Of The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison?

    1325 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the United States, a citizen has rights granted to them under documents such as the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, which gives citizens certain freedoms as long as they obey the law. When someone commits a crime, they are then entitled to aspects such as a speedy trial, a fair jury, an attorney if they wish, and other things, under the sixth amendment. Even if the person is found guilty, as a U.S. citizen they have rights under the eighth amendment which include protection against excessive bail or fines, and cruel and unusual punishment. Since the framers enacted the amendment, the exact definition of cruel and unusual punishment has been difficult to pin down, changing with the times and everyone’s interpretations. Pete Earley’s novel, The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison, depicts the conditions in the United States’ toughest prison, where some prisoner recounts, as well as Earley’s

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Ira Berlin's Generations Of Captivity

    1086 Words  | 3 Pages

    Ira Berlin wrote Generations of Captivity to persuade to his readers that even as time passed between the generations the change from a society of slaves to a slave society was one that happened slowly over time. Berlin wrote the book in five different sections, each one showing a focus of slavery from the more focused areas, like the Chesapeake Bay, to areas that were less focused with slavery. Berlins first chapter of the book dealt with the Charter Generation, which maintained the idea of a society with slaves, within the 1600s respectively. Berlins second chapter moved on to the Plantation Generation, which showed the society moving closer to the slave society. The third chapter focused on the Revolutionary Generation, which was a slave

    Read More

  • Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

    680 Words  | 2 Pages

    Fahrenheit 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper, more specifically books, burn. As a fireman living in a futuristic city, it is Guy Montag’s job to see that that is exactly what happens. Ray Bradbury predicts in his novel Fahrenheit 451 that the future is without literature -- everything from newspapers to novels to the Bible. Anyone caught with books hidden in their home is forced out of it while the firemen force their way in. Then, the firemen turned the house into an inferno.

    Read More

  • Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

    609 Words  | 2 Pages

    Perseverance pushes people towards what they believe in, a person’s perseverance is determined upon their beliefs. A person with strong beliefs will succeed greater to someone who does not. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag perseveres against society as well as himself in order to demolish censorship. Perseverance embraces values and drives people closer to their goals.

    Read More

  • Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

    1494 Words  | 3 Pages

    Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, the author utilizes the

    Read More

  • Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

    1540 Words  | 4 Pages

    Book Title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Original date of publication: 1953 Part A.) The Author. Visit the reference section of a library. Drawing from at least two sources, share the life story of the author. Discuss how the author’s life and circumstances may have influenced the novel.

    Read More

  • Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

    568 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the book Fahrenheit 451 the theme is a society/world that revolves around being basically brain washed or programmed because of the lack of people not thinking for themselves concerning the loss of knowledge, and imagination from books that don't exist to them. In such stories as the Kurt Vonnegut's "You have insulted me letter" also involving censorship to better society from vulgarity and from certain aspects of life that could be seen as disruptive to day to day society which leads to censorship of language and books. Both stories deal with censorship and by that society is destructed in a certain way by the loss of knowledge from books.

    Read More

  • The Hellenist: The Bartlett Head

    123 Words  | 1 Pages

    The Bartlett Head is one of a goddess sculpted out of marble around 330 BC, which puts this around the Hellenistic time period. The sculpture is an example of the Greek ideas and culture were part of the principle theme of this time period. Beyond the description of the head as a goddess, the style of hair, the ribbon that adorns it, her fair completion and overall beauty lead one to believe she is of the upper class. The downward tilt of her head as well as glance can be interpreted as subservient as the woman of this time period were seen as. The sculpture overall is one example of the dramatic human expression that art had transitioned to during the Hellenistic

    Read More

  • The Enemy Above Michael P Spradlin

    213 Words  | 1 Pages

    The front cover of the book shows a young boy that is hiding underground to escape the Nazis. The back of the book talks about how a young boy named Anton has to hide from the nazi in underground tunnels. The author of The Enemy Above is Michael P. Spradlin. Most of Spradlin's work is written in the past and has zombies for characters. I believe that this story was written towards a younger audience because he wrote the book from a twelve-year-olds point of view. After reading the first page I think the story is about a boy who is struggling in life and how the war has torn apart his family. I think that the author is trying to show that we all go through hard times. The deeper meaning of the story might be that we all have problems in life

    Read More

  • Exploring the Destiny of the Unevangelized and the Nature of Hell

    1391 Words  | 3 Pages

    This is a hard question. How can one come to grips with what the Bible seems to teach and with the desire in our hearts? Does not the Bible teach that Jesus is a loving God that wants all to go to heaven? How can a loving God send anyone to hell? If Christ indeed sends some to hell how can we say He is loving? These are all great question and ones that are hard to answer but there is an answer. God does everything He does, for a reason (Romans 8:28), and God does want all to come to Him (John 1:12; Romans 3:10).

    Read More

  • The Obsidian Prison: A Short Story

    609 Words  | 2 Pages

    I look out of my prison windows, only to see a faint outline of trees and mountains, the fog blocking most of my view of the landscape surrounding The Obsidian Prison. The sky is painted a deep shade of azure, while tufts of clouds float freely in the air, as if mocking me for being locked up in this little form of hell. My eyes scan the surroundings, and the only thing I can clearly see is the ring of mountains blocking any chance of escape; the only way out, is through the pass. However, that is easier said than done. From my position in The Obsidian Prison, I can see small figures in the distance; and I know it can only mean one thing: elves.

    Read More

More about Spiegelman's 'Prisoner On The Hell Planet'

Open Document