Past from the eyes of the Present

       One of the major recurring themes in the graphic novel, is the concept of inability to understand the circumstances without actually living through them. This is specially shown with various kinds of barriers between Art and Vladek. However, the unfathomable reality transcended from just Nazi brutality and concentration camps, but to also determinants of survival.       Before we start how many of people know how to perfectly stitch a shoe? Maybe one or two. On page 60 of volume Two we see a graphic of Valdek talking about how he knew the best way to stitch a shoe. This is very interesting because if someone were to say that they are incredibly proficient in stitching shoes, one would ask about their socioeconomic status, because let's be honest, why would you know how to perfectly repair shoes, but in the climate they were in, where factories and every white-collar work was virtually snatched from the Jews, knowing how to sew was a very impor...

The word 'mature' unknowingly dictates huge portions of our lives, so what exactly qualifies as mature? One of the decade long arguments of mature or not, is related to picture books. Can picture books truly be mature? Can something we enjoyed as children be considered mature, or if we twist it a bit, can something we learned the most basic things from be considered mature? Yeah well we talked about that in class and after soe nt really conflicting ideas we came to consensus that yes, if adults read picture book they wouldn't all of a sudden be considered less mature. So why and how did this divide originate? Well what happened was that children enjoyed picture books more than Shakespeare, and we all know Shakespeare is very mature, only adults can understand the importance of it, understand the hidden truths of 'Much Ado About Nothing', so anything children find boring is mature, and anything they enjoy is immature. Well the thing is, that li...