Art Spiegelman's The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

Authors Art Spiegelman was a comic book artist in the early 80s. Being a comic book artist wasn’t something one went around telling people in those times, because “the only things people could come up with were mutants in tight pants.” Not only was Spiegelman a comic book artist, the things he drew about revolved around a not-so-popular subject: the Holocaust. So when the artist joined the two, becoming the book Maus, he wasn’t expecting to sell more than 7,000 books. He didn’t even write the book in a “make the world a better place” mindset. Yet the world ignored Spiegelman’s belief, and instead read and raved over his art. It must be presumed that it is because his art is so different. When asked about why he did the book in comic book

His book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has become a much loved tale of two boys with a forbidden friendship. One of the biggest issues the readers have is Bruno’s naivety. Bruno, being the son of an important soldier, is blind to the actual horrors taking place at “Out-with.” To Bruno, Shmuel is just another boy who happens to be on the other side of the fence.

The novel deals with two complete opposites: total innocence and total evil. The two complement and elevate each other. Yet Bayne does not limit this naivety and evil to his own characters. Bayne finds it unfair that today’s readers judge Bruno’s naivety. He thinks that today’s readers know too much to understand Bruno’s innocence. If the readers were alive during the Holocaust, would they have done anything? Would they have been one of “Hitler’s willing executioners?” The reason Bayne does not limit the subject of the matter is because he believes that Bruno’s ignorance and naivety still exists today. The people choose what to make news and other things they choose to ignore. A recent example of this is the terrorist attack in France. The whole “Je Suis Charlie” business was international news for weeks, and quite a frenzy was made over it. But how many people heard of the “Boko Haram” attacks in Nigeria from January 3rd to the 7th? Terrorists attacked a city and are believed to have killed 2,000+ people. Bruno’s naivety is more common than people would like to

Salinger Innocence is lost with age, and when you reach that age, hope is lost. Or so thinks J.D. Salinger. Throughout his novel The Catcher in the Rye, the novel’s protagonist, Holden Caulfield, even though going through depression, shows passion over childhood innocence. He finds joy in innocence, and saddens every time he sees his siblings losing any amount of innocence. The reasons for the loss of innocence are result of heart-break, death, and war. The story is a story of absence of love. Salinger’s novel can be interpreted as a metaphor for the United States’ loss of innocence through the wars it suffered, and even the loss of his own innocence. Salinger served as soldier during WWII, and the effects the war had on him were tremendous. His daughter Margaret did not even know that her father was an author when she was a child, but knew he was a soldier. She claims the war left Salinger traumatized. Salinger’s novel grew to fame, and to add to his trauma, popularity came and pushed him over the edge. He lived the rest of his life secluded, regretting his