Nate Donnelly
Core 3 Koller
Literary Analysis Essay
Thursday, May 18
Holocaust Texts
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party created a plan to exterminate all jews across europe, they made around 2,000 camps primarily functioned to kill people. This was called the final solution. The holocaust was the mass murdering of 6 million Jews and other minorities across Europe. This includes Roman people, Poles, disabled people, communists and much more. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party created the idea that the Jews caused many of Germany's political and economic problems including the loss of the last war known as World War 1. As a result Hitler and the nazi party started to create laws and restrictions against Jews and eventually led to concentration
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Maus is a graphic novel that uses the structure of a comic book to show flashbacks and repetition. The book uses animals to represent different groups of people during the time of the holocaust. This gives a different meaning for the reader because it goes deeper into who represents what but also makes it less harsh than real people. In the book mice represent jewish people, pigs represent polish people and cats represent Germans. “The germans intended to make an example of them”(Spiegelman, 83, Panel 3) In the picture there was 4 jews hanging with cats laughing at them. This gives a different meaning because it shows how Germans against Jews is basically cat against mouse. The structure of the Movie the boy in the STriped Pajamas goes in order of events which creates a different meaning than Maus by creating tension. Bruno is the main character of the Boy in the striped pajamas. His dad gets a new job away from home so they have to leave and go to a new place. Bruno loses all of his friends so he has to find new ways to have fun. This shows that the events were in order so that the reader didn't know what was going to happen next. One of the major differences between both the book MAUS and the movie The boy in the striped pajamas is the structure of