Why aren’t Jews allowed to go in?” The young Giouse question as he sees a sign that says “No Jews Allowed”.
A theme constantly shown throughout the graphic novel Maus (by Art Spiegelman) and the Italian film Life is Beautiful is discrimination. The film Life is Beautiful takes place in Italy during 1939. The movie circles around the life of a man named Guido and his family during the rise of the Fascist movement in Italy. Throughout the film, viewers can see how Italy is gradually becoming prejudice by persecuting Jewish people. Eventually, Jews in Italy are sent to a concentration camp after being treated differently due to people’s biases. The graphic novel Maus, though, takes place in Poland during 19__. The novel is a narration from a survivor of the Holocaust as
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Maus differed from Life is beautiful because it described the Holocaust in a less traumatic way by using animals to represent characters in the Holocaust. Also, because it showed how Jews had to be relocated from their homes into ghettos; along with showing how the children were brutally murdered; and by how they were killed from minor infractions with the law. Life is Beautiful, on the other hand, described the Holocaust in a comedic way to lessen the trauma of the actual events. In addition to that, the movie demonstrated how Jews were deliberately denied access to places; along with how children and elders were killed in gas tanks; and how their dead bodies would be used for buttons and soap. They also relate in many ways, though. They both demonstrate that Jews lives had no value according to the Nazis; they both also show how the lives of children were taken away from them just because they were Jewish; and lastly they both show how Germans had no problem humiliating Jews to make them feel as if they are less than