Your Writing Task: Maus is a true memoir of people surviving during wartime. What can we as readers learn from this story? In at least a five-paragraph essay, describe a theme (lesson, moral) that this graphic novel reveals. Include textual details from the stories to back up your ideas.
Online Resources:
- Essay Handout and Rubric
- Maus Essay Tree Map
- Persuasion Map
- Quotes from Maus
- Writing your Thesis Statement
- “Silence No More” poem (Funabiki)
- “Wiesel offers students first-hand account of Holocaust” (Los Angeles Times)
- “Proudly Bearing Elders’ Scars, Their Skin Says ‘Never Forget’” (New York Times)
