Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Haskel helps only some.

In this scene I feel that he had problems representing this scene in play. He is showing how Anja's parents die and he is telling it thorugh Vladek. This scene requires Spiegelman to use his imagination. He has to show a scene where Vladek could not have seen every thing with his own eyes.He has to create this situation that Vladek is only telling how the situation went and most likely not a word for word account of how the conversations went. So he doesn't have his mothers view and only Vladek's memory; he has to decide how to present this scene with Anja's parents not getting out and being sent to their death. How to present Anja's parents frantically trying to get out as well. How they acted, what they said, how dramatic it was when Anja and Vladek saw them in the window. This is problematic because it is suppose to be history but now it is somewhat becoming non-fiction. 
He is deciding how to present characters formed off of Vladek's memory.
I feel Art is having trouble presenting Anja and her parents in this scene. He Shows Vladek standing there in the corner telling this scene and I feel he does this because he wants the reader to know Vladek is his only source he has for scenes such as this. He doesn't know how to depict his grandparents he has never meet before, so how to you present history that is intangable that only your father can tell you a story of. With Vladek's attitude who knows how acurate his acounts are for situations such as this. So Art only has this one source and its maybe fairly acurate at best. I mean there is no where in the book showing his father-in law's worry for Anja, Art only depicted his father-in law worrying about himself and his wife. This is why I feel this is a problem because why would Art leave this out? I mean surely his father-in law was not so self centered to not worry or mention anything about his own daughter getting out. He can't exactly present history with one shaky source and that is impossible to present or portray perfectly or even all of it. I mean I feel he may have left out a big part of this scene.


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