The rise of anti-Semitic views under Nazism made it difficult for Europe's Jews to survive. Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful and Art Spiegelman's Maus present the Holocaust in different ways. Life is Beautiful uses comedy to show Guido's efforts to keep his son alive. While Maus uses the application of Vladek's industrial skills to keep his family alive. Both stories show people's effort to survive at all costs using the skills they have. The two works on Holocaust survival show that, regardless of the situation, those affected will try to survive. While Maus is presented as a graphic novel and It's a Good Life as a film, both show the horrors of the Holocaust and the will of people to protect their children from the terrible horrors of the camp. Both stories begin with men chasing the women of their dreams. Vladek had to track down Anja because his ex-girlfriend was telling Anja terrible things about Vladek. Guido instead had to steal Dora from an Italian government official. Vladek was a Polish Jew he had heard of ...