In your own words, write a multi-paragraph response in which you analyze why Artie calls his father a monster
Murderer is a strong word for an action that’s not actual murder. In the book Maus 1, by Art Spiegelman, also known as Artie, he interviews his father, Vladek, about what he went through in the Holocaust, so he can better understand his father and the piece of history he went through. Artie believes that his father Vladek is a murderer, he murdered the memories of Anja, Vladek's wife and Artie's mother.
In fact, as Artie talked more with his father, Vladek mentioned that Artie’s mother, Anja, kept a journal throughout the Holocaust and wrote everything down in it. All her experiences, how she felt, what she was going through
Why? In “Chronicle of an American Execution”, the author, Dan Barry, describes how a man by the name of Daryl Holton ruthlessly murders his four young children. Why would anyone murder their children? As hard as it is to comprehend, there is a cause, a reason as to why this man killed his kids but there is also an effect, a consequence.
Maus is a graphic novel that explains well what the author, Art Spiegelman’s father, experienced during the holocaust as a jewish man. The book was put in school libraries where students were able to be taught a lesson about the Holocaust through the eyes of Vladek, a jewish mouse, against the German cats, alongside Polish pigs. According to the school board in Tennessee, the novel was not suitable for children, therefore they banned the book from certain schools due to offensive language, disturbing imagery and nudity. But was their reasoning truly valid? I believe that school board should not have banned Maus, seeing how it is a novel about the truth and experiences of a Jewish person in the Holocaust according to the author, as well as,
“Killings”, Andre Dubus’ short story, revolves around a father who seeks vengeance against his son’s killer. The story is about the murders committed by Richard Strout and Matt Fowler in their attempt to get retribution and ease the pain in their hearts. The circle of killings is first caused by the murder of Matt Fowler’s son, Frank, by Richard, which leads to the retaliatory killing of Richard, by Matt. This infinite, unforgiving circle of killings and attempts at retribution is what Dubus portrays in a nonjudgmental view. The readers are left to see how the act of killing affects Richard and Matt and decide how much their retribution costs them.
He writes how the Nazi destroys the Jewish and about the horrors of being put into a concentration camp. Only he knows what that was like seeing people starve to death and getting weak by the moment to the point of dying, seeing people be treated less than animals by the savage guards and being burnt and put into the same grave. All these traumatic memories were part of his young life. He was stripped of his childhood, of all the precious memories he could have made. His experiences definitely marked him for life in all the ways: mentally, spiritually and bodily.
He had to watch his father die at a very young age, he went very slow and painfully. Unfortunately not many survived the Holocaust but he was one of em. He survived but is very tromatized and scared for life. This is something he will never forget, not even as much as he tries.
His father has to make decisions to save him and his wife. In this story Art’s father sends their first son to stay with another person so he has a chance of survival. When the lady learns they might be taken she poisens herself and the children she had. The fear of the Nazi’s is dehumanizing for, it killed people without even having to touch them with a bullet or hand. Art describes his father’s experiences noting how his father felt.
Along his journey, he writes unforgettable details that leave one stunned. In Night, Wiesel’s purpose is to prevent others from forgetting the Holocaust by provoking traumatic emotions through the details of the experiences that both he and his neighbors endured. Elie’s accounts of seeing children struggle to survive in the camp
In “The Next Genocide,” Snyder begins with, “Before he fired the shot, the Einsatzgruppe commander lifted the Jewish child in the air and said, ‘You must die so that we can live.’ As the killing proceeded, other Germans rationalized the murder of Jewish children in the same way: them or us” (Snyder par. 1). The austere illustration of German soldiers massacring innocent Jewish children emphasizes the stark horror and terror of a twisted ideology in the readers’ minds. Such an emotional appeal strengthens Snyder’s argument that pointless bloodshed occurs whenever empiricism is disregarded in favor of fanaticism, creating desperate countries that are willing to commit genocide to sustain themselves. While the horrors of the Holocaust seem a distant memory, the greater terror is that those same factors are still viable reasons for alarm.
Elie Wiesel's memoir Night relates his experiences as a Jewish boy during the Holocaust. The memoir focuses on Elie's relationship with his father and how it impacts him throughout the events. Elie's connection with his father develops with time, with both positive and negative effects for him. In Elie Wiesel's memoir “Night” it can be argued that Elie and his father have an easy relationship. They form a close bond and encourage one another as they go through difficult moments in the camp.
In conclusion, the author uses the emotions that the man feels as justification for his actions, leading readers to understand why he would kill the
In Maus, Art Spiegelman records his personal accounts of trying to delve into his father’s traumatic past. His father, Vladek, is a Jew from Poland who survived persecution during World War II. Art wants to create a graphic novel about what his father went through during the Holocaust, so he reconnects with Vladek in order to do so. Due to the horrifying things that the Jews went through he has trouble opening up completely about all the things that happened to him. But after Art gets together with his father many times, he is finally able to understand the past legacy of the Spiegelman family.
The demonstration of the narrator's imagination unconsciously leads his own thoughts to grow into a chaotic mess that ultimately ends in a death. By murdering, it’s his own way of finding peace. He is portrayed as being a sadist, sick man with an unnatural obsession for
Most of the times that he wants to speak to his son peacefully something that Artie does has to bother him because during the Holocaust he had to be conservative with everything he used. One example that Artin and Vladkek’s relationship is bad because of the communication that they have because they have not been together and talked to each other in 2 years. With Mala, it’s even worse,he doesn’t support her and she doesen’t support him because they never communicate and more importantly they don’t have a meaningful relationship with her.
Andre Dubus, short stories contain a common theme of revenge, morality, and justice. In “Killings” published in 1979, Andre displays the theme of revenge and justice through the development of characters, the title of the story, and the thrill of the suspense. Dubus neglects to take sides with the characters in the “Killings”, which leaves it upon the readers to make assumption whether the killings were justifiable. Dubus has a very unique style of writing, the main characters in “Killings” were given a choice that could’ve led them to a completely different outcome. Dubus keeps the readers on their toes because the opposite usually ends up happening.
Throughout Maus, Vladek is telling his son Artie about how he survived the Holocaust. He explained to Artie that before the war, life was good for him and his family. He tells him everything about his experience during the war as well, from the relationship he had with his family and Anja, to his friendships with both gentiles and Jews, to things he might of found or kept throughout the war. However now, a few decades after the war, Vladek’s lifestyle has changed drastically from during the war, and even from before the war. Vladek’s friendships, relationships, and everyday life has changed due to the Holocaust and WWII.