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The Chapter picks up after Vladek returns to society. He reunites with Anja and her family. Things seem normal at first, as if there was no Nazi occupation. This blissful ignorance of the situation soon dissipates, and the realization that the Jewish population have all been corralled into ghettos sets in, and what seemed to be a return to the high life quickly turns into  a constant struggle to survive. Vladek is cutting his teeth on jewels, pawning everything valuable he has off and uses them as bribes.
Anja's father tries everything in his power to ward off the gestapo and Jewish police, yet to no avail. To make an example of those attempting to outsmart the Nazi occupation, people are hung in the street, their bodies on full display. With the threat of being sent to Auschwitz looming over them, they begin bouncing from ghetto to ghetto. The chapter ends highlighting the carnage dealt to Sosnowiec.

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Still listening to the story, captivated by the brutality and hardship his father has faced.

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He's doing everything he can to provide for his family and to survive. He faces moral dilemmas and heart wrenching, foundation shaking decisions that go completely against what he believes in. In these chapters you begin to see where his older self's crotchety, cheapskate characteristics began to develop. He faces incredible adversity in these two chapters facing an overwhelming sense of loss and confusion having no one and no where to go.

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Anja remains supportive of her husband and the safety of her family, despite her being a complete nervous wreck at this point, with friends and family members dying left and right. Towards the end of chapter 5, when everything seems bleak and hopeless, she crumbles. If not for the Vladek's love and support, she would've been a goner by now.

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Relative of Vladek who despite playing both sides, gets Vladek help and support for his family, even if it means sacrificing other Jewish families.

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The chapter begins with Artie being awakened by phone call from Mala complaining about Vladek being up on the roof being the stubborn old man that he is. Artie visits Vladek after he gets some coffee and is met with hostility from his father. He soon discovers that Vladek is hostile because of the discovery of a comic Artie drew depicting his mothers suicide in grotesque detail. The piece even shocks Artie, disturbed by how shameless this was and how vain and self loathing it is. Vladek assures him that all is well and that he was only overcome with emotion.  We pick up right after Vladek and his family left one of the ghettos, evading being sent to the camps for a death sentence.
Vladek is forced to work at German shops, all the while being unrelentingly watched by officials. A large amount of people begin to be taken into prison camps. Tosha, who is related to Anja, refuses to endure the camp; she refuses to have these innocent children endure such pain, so she poisons herself as well as Richeu and her two children. This event destroys Vladek and Anja, Anja unable to keep it together. Within no time, Vladeks group is snuffed out and Anja's family is killed. Anja completely gives, wishing to die right there on the spot, Vladek and Anja have no one else but each other, and the chapter ends with Vladek and Anja lost, unable to move on and not knowing what to do next.

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Anja's sister who ends up killing Richeu as well as her own children so that way they wont have to suffer in the concentration camps.

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It foreshadows the danger that Vladek's group is about to face. Literally, it foreshadows the literal hanging of Jews in the streets and the frightening message its mean't to send. Figuratively, it symbolizes the hold that the Nazi's have on the Jews at this moment in time. Each passing day, the hold gets tighter and tighter until there's no more wiggle room and no chance to get away.

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1. It's revealed Mala's parents suffered and died during the holocaust
2. Fela and her family are imprisoned.
3. The reveal that there are Jews working for the gestapo turning in their own people to save themselves
3. Vladek is questioned about his work and faces a near death situation after and encounter with a couple street guards.
4. A Family that helped Vladek and his group escape were publicly hanged as warning and reminder.
5. They were all relocated to a slum-like ghetto

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The dog is mean't to symbolize Americans. Dogs are viewed as man's best friend, a universally loved animal seen as a gentle, warm, loving protector. A loyal friend to the end. Seeing that the Americans led the liberation of German occupied countries, it's only fitting that a dog wards off and defeats a smaller predatory animal.

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Events happening in rapid effect mean't to increase dramatic effect.

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The title of the chapter is mean't to signify the tunnels they traverse to get to the cramped, decrepit hideouts, as if they were vermin.

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1. Vladek discovers Artie's comic about his mom's suicide.
2. Tosha kills herself and Richeu as well as her two kids.
3. Anja's last remaining family is taken away.
4. Vladek has another near death encounter but narrowly escapes because he's acquainted with Haskell
5. Vladek and Anja have no idea what to do for the first time.

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It's burned into not just his memory, but his soul as well. How can anyone forget such horrific events? Losing almost everyone you love and being the only one surviving while wishing that you could just join them is enough for anyone to remember such a traumatic experience.

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It has more of an impact. You've spent so much time learning about this man's struggles that you're a bit sad that he has to go, but you're left with a biter sweet feeling seeing that picture at the end.

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Something fond of his mother and something passive-aggressively spiteful for his father.

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Vladek to me is a tragic character. A man living his best life before the Nazi regime seized control of his country. He showed a plethora of selfless acts but in the end committed an unforgivable sin in his son's eyes: destroying Anja's diary, essentially murdering her legacy. But given the tribulation he endured, you can't fault him for being turned into someone he never wanted to be. A truly tragic case of how traumatizing events can completely change a person.

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There is a constant theme of struggle and redemption. Every cloud has a silver lining, and when things seemed bleak for Vladek, he would always find a way to rise above it. Without enduring the bad times you'll never appreciate how good the good times are.

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The story takes place all over Poland, switching between bustling cities, packed slums, and brutal concentration camps

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To be completely honest, I didn't expect much out of this book. The holocaust with animals, wow who cares. But once I started getting into it, I felt as if I was reading a cartoon version of Schindlers List; it was captivating to see how this man handled this kind of adversity and I wouldn't be surprised if it's turned into a film one day.

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Spiegelman did something amazing here. You feel Artie's frustration with Vladek but you also feel for Vladek as the book goes on because you see how this experience has changed him as a person.

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Spiegelman, Art - MAUS

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Spiegelman, Art - MAUS pg 95 - 127