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Artie is the narrator and son of Valdek Spiegelman. He is a US citizen who is curious about his fathers past and wants to hear stories from World War II and how he was persecuted and survived.

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Vladek is Art Spiegelman’s father. The story centers around Vladek’s experience during the Holocaust. The Holocaust shaped the person he grew into and so he is not wasteful of the things he has and is a little bit of a grumpy old man.

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Artie’s father is pretty miserable after the war, burdened with the memories. Along with marrying Mala who he doesn’t like out of convenience.

Katrina

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Henry Shellhorn
Art’s father, grew up in Poland. Maus tells the story of his experiences throughout the Holocaust. Married to his second wife, Mala.

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Henry Stewart- Why is the chapter called “The Sheik”?

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Henry Stewart- Why is the chapter called “The Sheik”?

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The first chapter is called “The Sheik” because Vladek, Artie’s dad, looks like Rudolph Valentino who is the star of the movie called, “The Sheik”.

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Why does Ms.Stefanska go to jail? What role did Anja play in Ms.Stefanska’s going to jail?

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Why does Ms.Stefanska go to jail? What role did Anja play in Ms.Stefanska’s going to jail?

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Ms. Stefanska goes to jail for having communist papers hidden in her house. She received those papers from Anja before the police showed up, after Anja received a tip from one of her friends.

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Artie’s mother and Vladek’s late wife. A sensitive and caring woman who is also very intelligent woman

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Lucia is the young woman that Vladek first speaks of when he talks about women that he has dated. She is very attached to Vladek because of how charming he was. He dated her for a little before meeting Anja. After meeting Anja, Vladek cut off all relations with Lucia and told her that he was marrying Anja. Lucia was devastes and begged Vladek to marry her because she would make him happy.

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Vladek was the husband of Anja and is father of Artie. He is a survivor of the Holocaust and lives with his new wife(Anja committed suicide). He became very wealthy after making a textile factory with his father in laws money. In the book so far, Vladek is answering Artie’s questions on the holocaust. It seems like he has much PTSD talking about his past and how he survived.

Andrew Brady

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Why does Ms. Stefanska go to jail? What role did Anja play in Ms. Stefanska’s going to jail?

Ms. Stefanska goes to jail because she is found with legal documents concerning communists. Despite Ms. Stefanska being found with the documents, Anja is truly to blame. She had been working with the communists by decode messages and then communicating with them. Anja was originally in possession of the legal documents. However, when she found out that the police were looking for her, she panicked and hide the documents at Ms. Stefanska's house. When the police arrived at the house, they found the documents and arrested Ms. Stefanska rather than Anja.

Aidan McNally

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The father of Art, who shares stories of his past to his son. He recollects memories of pre-war Poland, and his efforts within. He was spontaneous in making an effort for his family.

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Art arrives at his father’s house, Vladek. Vladek asks Art how his comic business is going and Art says that he wants to write a book and Vladek’s life during World War II. Vladek first talks about his life in Poland and how he dated a girl named to Lucia, but then he met Anja, Art’s mom. Anja was from a wealthy family. Her and Vladek communicate through letters.

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The character that I chose is Vladek. I chose him because we really get insight on his life in the chapters that we have read so far. We learned about his time during World War II and what was happening during that time. I learned that he was married to Anja, but had a woman named Lucia that would not stop thinking about him and later he would be married to Mala after Anja killed herself. Vladek revived a letter from the government telling him that he has been called into duty. We also learned that his left eye was hemorrhaged and had to be replaced by a glass eye. When he was fighting in the army, he killed at least one man, and he has many dreams in his grandfathers voice about when he will leave the camp. When he comes home, he has to hide that he is Jewish and poses as Polish man. This shows how serious your identity mattered at the time of this war, and Vladek wanted to come home to see his wife but he could only do so if he posed as a Polish man and not who he truly is.

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Art Spiegelman goes out to see his father for the first time in a while. He says hello to Vladek, his father, and Mala, Vladek’s second wife. Vladek tells Art the story of living before WWII in a city in Poland. Vladek was introduced to a girl named Lucia Greenberg, a girl who he dated for years whose family was poor. After turning down her offer for engagement, Vladek is introduced to Anja, a girl from a rich family, and it makes Lucia jealous. Vladek meets Anja’s family and has dinner with them. After Lucia writes an anonymous letter to Anja slandering his reputation in Poland, Vladek convinces her that Lucia is just an old ex and gets married to Anja.

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Lucia is Vladek first “love”. After meeting through a mutual friend, Lucia and Vladek  remain in a long term relationship that lasts three years. Lucia comes from a poor family who can barely give her a dowry. Vladek continues to put down the idea of marrying Lucia and after meeting Anja he calls it quits with lucia. Lucia is insane and obsessed with Vladek so she doesnt leave him alone after finding out hes marrying Anja. The friend who introducted them helps to talk lucia out of staying with Vladek although she tries to write anja a letter to convince her not to marry vladek. It doesnt work and vladek doesnt see lucia again.

Angelina House

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On page 11, Spiegelman tells us that his father second wife Mala was a survivor too, like most of us parents’ friends. Why does Spiegelman call Mala a survivor? What does he mean. 

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On page 11, Spiegelman tells us that his father second wife Mala was a survivor too, like most of us parents’ friends. Why does Spiegelman call Mala a survivor? What does he mean. 

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Spiegelman refers to Mala as a survivor, this is because people who were enslaved by the Nazis and survived through it were referenced as “Holocaust Survivors.”

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Through Art’s dad the reader experiences his constant reminiscing over the past, the biggest being his past love for his wife, or Art’s mother. Vladek complains about his current wife with every chance he gets and let’s Art know just how much he misses his mother. Besides Art’s mother Vladek speaks fondly of his past up to chapter 3, though it does begin to get a little dark when he talks about his time working for the Nazis. The darkest moment seems to be when he gets to camp and he’s told about how the 600 who arrived before were slaughtered. Another dark thought is what happened to the Rabi, who Vladek says he’s never heard from again. All of these hint at Vladek having a bit of survivors guilt.

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Luck in the context of this story is the occurrence of fortunate situations that were not ensured by the character. For example, when Vladek is required to go to the stadium to show his papers, his cousin who runs a stand there protects him. This kindness was outside of Vladek’s control so he was very lucky. Another example was when Vladek bribed the guards to transfer Anja to his camp and the guards actually honored their promise and transferred her. This was lucky because they could have just taken his bribe and not transferred her. Vladek’s survival was nearly entirely caused by luck and many others were not as lucky. He tried to maintain value as a prisoner but at any moment a guard could have decided to kill him.