Often A Minute Figurative Language

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.

The central theme of Maus is to stay strong and hopeful in a tough situation. Hard times will change people. The poem's theme, “Often a Minute" is to persevere through the tough

Maus is a very sad and scary tone to it. But often a minute tone is more mad and hopeful. Like this stanza here “And shaking off every speck of dust This indestructible nation shall stand just.” and “And the sun will brightly be shining. Brothers, the Jewish spring will be arriving!”. While on the other hand, Maus’s tone says “I could avoid the truth no longer the doctor's words clattered inside me…. I felt confused, I felt angry, I felt numb! … I didn’t exactly feel like crying. But figured I should!” also with maus is in black and white to show the visuals to it while still being in a dark tone. But the poem is not illustrated. Their language is also different. The poem uses rhyming and older-sounding words to feel like it is in the past. Like “Why are we uselessly persecuted? Why is our fate so desolate?” but Muas uses words to talk about himself in the past. They also have figurative language in Muas all people that are Jewish are mice and all nazis are cats. And in the poem, there is figurative language like “ Italy enters the arena” to rhyme and to say that Italy is at war. The structure of these two stories is also very different. Often a minute is a poem so it has stanzas, it rhymes, and it is short. But Maus is a graphic novel so it is illustrated and it has no color in