Shindler's list is a movie about a German man by the name
of Oscar Shindler. His aim is to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. He
manages to save 1,100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Maus is a graphic novel about a little boy by the name of Art, he wants to
receive information from his father about his memories from the holocaust.
Vladek, which is Art's father, starts the story with his life as a young man in
Sosnowiec, Poland leading up to the World War 2. Vladek meets and marries a
lady by the name of Anja who is a very intelligent woman from a family who
helps Vladek to own his own textile factory.
The movie Shindler’s list is introduced as a man who is
creating a business from a Nazi Perspective as Maus is introduced with Vladek
and wife Anja escaping from the Nazi’s. These two introductions are completely
different and I prefer the Shindler’s list view on the holocaust story because
it creates a better and more realistic idea.
In Maus I found that the novel was negative towards the
Jews and Shindler’s list had a more positive effect on the Jews from what Oscar
has portrayed. Something that is very obvious between the two would be the
difference in how they made the Jews and Germans obvious to the audience. Maus
did a better job at this because they used a unique technique in doing so. The
author of Maus used a mouse head for the Jews and for the Germans, a cat head.
In Shindler’s list there was no clear difference between the two. It was not as
easy to see the difference, which is very important. Another very obvious
difference between the two would be the fact that Maus is graphic novel, which
is more interesting in comparison to other kinds of literature and Shindler’s
list, is a movie. In this case I preferred the movie to the graphic novel
because, I understood Shindler’s list more due to the fact that there was a lot
more detail and Maus was not as detailed.
At the end of the movie it does not create a lot of
suspicion because everyone goes to lay a stone on the graves in comparison to
ending with “murder.” I prefer the mysterious type of ending because it forces
the reader to continue reading, which is a good technique that the author of
Maus has used.
A few things I noticed that are very similar is that they
both give a fair understanding of the holocaust and the separation between the
Jews and Germans. I also noticed that in both of the films were in black and
white. There was no color in the novel or in the film. From doing further
research on this book I also discovered that Maus was the first graphic novel
to win the Pulitzer Prize. Overall, I think that both were fantastic but I
really enjoyed the way that the author of Maus used creative techniques to make
the story interesting.
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