Time+Flies

"Time Flies" is an excerpt from a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman called //Maus II: A Survivors Tale - And Here My Troubles Began//. The short story is set in the United States after WWII by about 50 years and the author is talking about his father, in the first box, who was a survivor of the Holocaust and was imprisoned in Auschwitz; his father passed away in 1982. The author then shows how his first graphic novel gave him fame and how he has been dealing with it ever since he won the Pulitzer Prize. It shows the author going to a Psychiatrist to talk about the way he feels, how his father always seems to be hanging over him, and how his father may of had survivors guilt from the Holocaust as the authors shrink is also a Survivor of the Holocaust. The way the author depicts Jews, Germans, Poles, and Americans is quite interesting. The Jews are depicted as mice, the Germans are cats, the Poles are pigs, and Americans are dogs in this short story. In the end the shrink and author talk about what his father did in Auschwitz and how life was in the camps. The shrink also helps the author with his book by telling him what some of the tools his father would of had while working in a tin shop while being imprisoned. The author leaves the shrinks office feeling a little better but is not sure why he feels better.
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Some of the Topics that are covered in "Times Files" are: Grief, Love, Fame, Not Living Up To Ones Standard, Father & Son Relations, and Genocide
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"Time Flies" is a very interesting short story through the way the story is told. The story is a graphic novel and is told in the first person. The short story talks about how the author, Art Spiegelman, is dealing with becoming a father, the fame he has achieved as a graphic novelist, and the loss of his father and he shows it in a way that also lets the reader see how he is dealing with each of those. In a unique way, Art talks about how his father was always pushing him to be better when he was younger and now that his father is gone, he does not have that driving force to help him through the trials that face him.
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When Art goes and talks to his shrink, who also was a survivor of the Holocaust, he learns how the Holocaust was and how his father might have felt throughout his time in Auschwitz. I think that this short story is a very interesting way to portray how the families of Holocaust survivors and how they might be a little more harsh on their children when it comes to hardships in their life. I also believe that this is an interesting way to show history through graphic novels kind of like how there was comics back in the WWII days and later portraying war heroes and historical figures through out the years. It was also nice to see that how Art portrayed getting help was very different because there was no stigma attached to his getting help from a shrink to deal with his troubles at this time in his life.

//Spiegelman, Art. " Time Flies". Literature and the Writing Process,// Ed. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X. Day, Robert Funk, Linda Coleman. Tenth Edition. Pearson, 2014. 458-466. Print.
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