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The graphic novel named Maus by Art Speiglman is about a Holocaust survivor and what he had to go through. In Contrast, the poem “Never Shall I Forget” is also about a Holocaust survivor named Elie Wiesel. She talks about all the traumatizing experiences she went through and what it felt like to be in the Holocaust. Even though both of these are about the holocaust there are many differences between them. Maus is about Vladek wanting to share his experiences but in the Holocaust poem Elie Wiesel wants to try and forget about it. She sadly can't forget about it because of how much of an impact it had on her.
Both the book Maus and the poem “Never Shall I Forget” have different themes. The theme of the book Maus is that there's a human will
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In “Maus 1” Vladek tells his story about the Holocaust. He explains what his experience living through the Holocaust was like. In “Maus 1” Vladek does not really talk or express his feelings and emotions. He mainly talks about the informative details about his experience. For example: Vladek talks to Art about all of the main things that happened during the Holocaust like Germany invading Poland, Germans entering Sosnowiec, Jewish property being confiscated in Poland, etc.

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And all the kids and young people who hadn’t even got a chance to live their lives. Both Maus and Often a Minute are similar in many ways because they have similar topics and themes but they are also very different because of the text structures they both portray. Both Maus and Often a Minute are very similar in many ways they have one distinct difference that sets them apart from each other and that is the text structure. In Maus the author chooses to use a sort of chronological text structure to tell and also show us what Vladek's life was like during the holocaust. Showing us in key detail from the beginning of his time to near the end of it.

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The poem “Nightmares”, by Sammy Lupo, is about an inmate who was convicted for murder on death row and how that forever haunts him after the horrifying events are over. Kimel’s poem designate, how a man that survived the Holocaust, cannot forget the horrid events that happened and he wants everyone to be aware of the Holocaust and not forget it. The likenesses the poems share are that both author’s cannot forget the terrifying events they have experienced in their lifetime and both poems share a macabre tone. The particular differences are that the inmates poem was wrote before he died and Kimel survived and is hoping to make sure no one forgets the horrifying events of the Holocaust. Lupo was punished on a death row sentence for killing an

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Although it is extremely difficult to express unspeakable and horrible events, the use of poetic language and artistic expression help significantly. One strategy used to explain the unspeakable is poetic language. In Document A, an excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel, repeatedly employs the same phrase “never shall I forget”. (Document A) Not only does this excerpt use poetic language to express the unspeakable and horrific events that happened to Elie and all the other Jews, it also uses repetition to drive the point even further as one reads through the excerpt.

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In the novel Maus, Art Spiegelman writes about the past and present traits about a survivor of the Holocaust. Throughout the novel, the author goes back and forth between the character's past and current traits. Art is able to think about what the holocaust is about and how his father fought through it to create a novel. Vladek shows how the holocaust has affected his entire life and how his life has become more complex. When Vladek was a young man, he was a quick thinker; he was able to come up with last-minute plans that saved his and many others' lives.

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At a really young age a kid named Ellie Wiesel was captured by the SS (NAZI) , he was a really faithful person. later on his life his faith in god would decrease little by little. The prisoner Ellie wisel was a witness of the horrifying things that happend in the natzi concentration camps some of the examples are, depression due to observing gorrifying things, witnessing kids being killed in a daily and human being treated like animals without respect. “Never shall I forget” Is a quote written by Ellie Wiesel, Ellie Wiesel is the author of the book Night, he was also a former prisoner of the Nazi Germany, the cause that led the author to write this quote were the horrifying things he was witnessing, bodies being burned, people being killed.

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In the graphic novel Maus II, Art Spiegelman reveals what hardships his father had to go through to survive his time during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel depicted what him and his father went through to withstand the suffering in the concentration camps during the holocaust in his autobiography, Night. The connection between these two works from contrasting genres is the relationships and loyalty to family and friendships shown throughout these accounts. When facing critical situations, remaining loyal to your family and friends is more essential to survival than self-preservation and resourcefulness. Having close relationships with friends and family could benefit you by granting you opportunities to receive support, resources and other components to survival.

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Maus is about a man talking to his son after the war sharing his story of the Holocaust and trying to survive. It uses illustrations to show emotions and to move the story forward. “Often a Minute” is a poem about the Holocaust and the struggles that Jews went through. These two stories are very similar but their themes have minor differences. While Maus and “Often a Minute” talk about the struggles of the Holocaust, they differ in that Maus portrays the theme through illustrations while the poem uses figurative language to describe the horrors of the Holocaust.

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Never Shall I Forget" (Ellie Wiesel) are all writings on what the Holocaust was and what they want us to learn is to never allow that again. One key lesson in the book Night is challenging experiences can make relationships strong.

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The Holocaust was a period of persecution and mistreatment of Jews in Europe, but many remained religious, despite the fear of living in ghettos and concentration camps. There are numerous diverse perspectives in Art Spiegelman's Maus I and Magdalena Klein's "Often a Minute." Maus I is a graphic novel in which Vladek Spegielman recalls to his son, Art Spiegelman, what he witnessed as a Polish Jew in Poland during the Holocaust. Similarly, in the poem "Often a Minute," the author describes how Jews felt throughout the Holocaust. The theme of both books focuses on amazing perseverance and survival.

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Maus by Art Spiegelman is a World War II survivor written from a Jewish perspective. The book is however not representing a typical survivor tale, as Spiegelman has decided to tell it in a new, unconventional but revolutionary way; a comic strip. Even though comic strips are said to represent fiction, they can actually successfully transmit real stories and add a new dimension to it. This new dimension is generated by combining text and image. Spiegelman has decided to fully make use of this unique genre by portraying different ethnicities or nationalities in form of anthropomorphic creatures.

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A long road ahead As a society people can preserve the memories of the tragedy that was the holocaust by sharing real and profound stories about the Holocaust on multiple captivating platforms to reach and influence a larger and more diverse group of people. These platforms being, written memoir, speeches and presentations and graphic novels, these platform can all be effective because they reach out to different groups of people. The written memoir source is Night, by Elie Wiesel, the vocal source is excepts of a speech by peter Metzelaar, and the graphic novel is Maus by Art Spiegelman.

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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.

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This excerpt is relevant to Wiesel’s biggest fear which is that the world has not learned or has simply forgotten about the Holocaust. The line “Never shall I forget…” (Wiesel, 34) is reiterated to show how important remembering is to Wiesel. This also pertains to Wiesel 's “big idea” which is that his purpose for writing Night was to never let anyone forget about the Holocaust. He hopes that this memoir helps prevent another genocide like this, and helps motivate people to stand up to injustices.

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“I Cannot Forget” is considered to be a free verse in which the writer wants to be freed from all restrictions and express his thoughts unconsciously. It consists of thirty lines, divided into five stanzas, six lines each with

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