Night And Maus By Elie Wiesel Meaning

Joel Ochoa

Ms.Reyes

English 9

3/16

Night & Maus Written Explanation In times of despair when things seem lost, we realize and remember the importance of things we didn't see the value of before. So realize the importance to recognize and appreciate all things that can be lost in a blink of an eye. In summary, the importance of people and object goes unrecognized until you no longer have them. Night is a true story based on Elie Wiesel's life experience in the Holocaust where he endures immense loss and suffering and fortunately makes it out alive. Many Jewish people arrived at the camp and soldiers ordered them to strip their clothes. Elie states, “For us it meant true equality; nakedness. We trembled in the cold” (Wiesel 35). The quote

Art wasn't alive during the events of the Holocaust in contrast to Elie Wiesel, Art had to interview his father to write Maus. Vladek and the other Jewish people went to a big hall while they shouted at them to get undressed and to leave their valuables, Vladek shares, “They took from us our papers, our clothes, and our hair” (Spiegelman 25). In relation to Night, Vladek in the scene is getting his identity basically getting taken from him, and felt fear and cold all at the same time. In the next scene, S.S. officers chose Jewish to put to work, while the weak were put aside to be taken away forever. Vladek on the other hand was very lucky because he knew how to speak English and for that he was put aside by a Block supervisor that wanted to learn English, he told Vladek to follow him where Vladek then witnesses something he hadn't seen in a long time, “Here I saw rolls! I saw eggs! Meat! Coffee! All the tables are full! You know what it was to see such things” (Spiegelman 32). This line from the story Maus connects to the theme because for Vladek to see such type of food at that time was a really rare occurrence for him and Jewish people as a whole for being dehumanized and no longer having access to that food. Vladek shows how much he missed that

In the second scene, Elie is standing in the mud while dreaming of his mother’s hand on his face while he's sleeping on his bed. My visual represents my theme by showing how the things both Vladek and Elie no longer had impacted them in negative ways, in which they both recognize the need that they have for those things. I chose to make my Visual the way I did because those images stuck with me and I thought would look pretty traumatic. I chose the placement of those images so they could kind of compliment each other the best way possible. I chose to only color Night's side of the visual just because I didn't find color in Maus’s side fitting since I read the whole story in black and white and I couldn't wrap my head around adding any color that would fit. I chose the materials accessible to me which I'm so incredibly thankful for (you’re such an awesome teacher) initially I was planning to use a shoe box but I then found that I had no shoe boxes and my brother who’s a sneakerhead threw all his shoe boxes away because they were clutter) so I decided to make a display with paper. I chose the quotes that I put because I deemed them to be the most connected to my