Similarities Between Maus And Often A Minute

The holocaust. A terrible tragedy in human history. 5 million non Jews killed. 6 million Jews all dead. Even those that survived have terrible memories. Many people don’t like to think about it, but it is an important event to remember so that we don’t let it happen again.Two pieces of literature that explore the idea of wanting to remember the holocaust to not repeat it are Maus by Art Spiegelman and Often a Minute by Magdalena Klein. These texts describe events and feelings surrounding the holocaust and help support the idea of teaching about it to stop it from happening again. Another theme these passages present is persevering even when times are tough. The ideas, scenes, stanzas, tone, and sentences presented in these two compositions

Both Maus and Often a Minute have the tone of fear. They express it similarly by showing both Vladek and the narrator having fear of the holocaust. A piece of evidence from Maus that shows this is on page 32 panels 2 and 3 when Vladek is narrating and says, “I remember when we were almost arrived, we passed a small town. Everybody-every Jew from the train- got very excited and frightened.” and a part from Often a Minute is, “Often a minute, a day, seems so slight. My eyes glance at the news with fright And I’m afraid to turn the radio on, For again I hear of Jewish persecution.” These pieces of evidence show that Maus and the poem represent the tone similarly by showing that they are both afraid of the holocaust and the events that might and have happened. Maus and the poem portray the tone differently because Vladek is fearful for his friends and family whereas the narrator is more fearful for the state of the world and the people as a whole. Evidence from Maus is on pages 83 and 84 panels 3-6 and panel 1 when Vladek is narrating to Artie and says,“The next day I walked o9ver to Modrzejowska street and I saw them… they hanged there one full week. Cohn had a dry goods store. He was known over all Sosnowiec. Often he gave me cloth with no coupons. I traded also with Peerfer, a fine young man- a Zionist. He was just married. His wife ran screaming in the street. I was frightened to go outside for a few days…I didn’t want to pass where they were hanging. And maybe one of them could have talked of me to the Germans to save himself.” Evidence from Often a Minute is stanza 2 lines 3 and 4 and stanza 3 lines 1 and 2 when the narrator says, “Even she can’t stand these people Who never did her any evil They haven’t harmed, yet are disliked And thrown prey to insult.” This evidence shows the tone in different ways by showing that Vladek is more fearful for his life and his