"Night" and "Maus" Holocaust Works

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses Elie Wiesel's "Night" and Art Spiegelman's "Maus", which are two highly acclaimed pieces of literature on the Holocaust. The paper compares both authors' goals and their styles of impacting their audience and points out the differences. The paper notes that despite the differences in goals and style, both works convey the hopelessness, compromised human civility and utter anguish of the Holocaust.

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"Libraries and bookstores are inundated with numerous accounts of the Holocaust. So many survivors have a story to tell, so many people have a point to make, and so many people simply want to try to understand the horror, or possibly help others understand it better. Elie Wiesel's Night and Art Spiegelman's Maus are two highly acclaimed pieces of literature which are saturated with the shocking richness and impossible to escape intensity of Holocaust works. Though each writer succeeds in accomplishing his goal, their goals do not correspond; their styles of impacting their audience are drastically different, as well. Importantly, both Wiesel and Spiegelman manage to thoroughly convey, in their literature, the hopelessness, compromised human civility, and utter anguish, of the Holocaust. Other than this important connection, the two authors are strikingly opposite."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Holocaust Teacher Resource Center. "Memories of the Night-A Study of the Holocaust." 2001. Accessed 12/2008. <http://www.holocaust-trc.org/night.htm>.
• Schoenberg, Shira. "Elie Wiesel." A Division of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2008. Accessed 12/2008. <http://www.jewishvirtualLibrary.org/jsource/biography/Wiesel.html>.
• Thomas, Gordon. "Graphic Autobiography: Using Maus in a Composition Class." 1996.Accessed 12/2008. <http://www.class.uidaho.edu/thomas/Holocaust/Thomas/Maus_Graphic_Autobiography.pdf>.
• Wiesel, Elie. "A God Who Remembers." All Things Considered. National Public Radio. 2008. Accessed 12/2008. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89357808>.

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