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When first inroduced about the Karps, we learn that they are sort of nosey in a way. the immediately invite Artie into their house just to convince him to take him back home with him.

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Vladek encouteres seeing his known people being hanged for a full week. This probably traumatized Vladek in a way that might of lead to his mental illness.

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Vladek threw away Artie's jacket and gave him a new one. He started to bash on Art's raggedy jacket and gave him one of his newer windbreakers. This scene shows us the relationship between the two.

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Tosha is faced in a difficult situation. Her quick thinking lead her to a lifetime of being gone. She poisoned herself, her daughter, niece and nephew. This was in my opnion effort to go away from keeping on this horrible suffering during the Holocaust.

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When Anja gave birth to Richieu she fell into deep depression. In order to fix this up Vladek takes her away to a vacation for her to heal up. This plus surviving the Holocaust may be why she committed suicide.

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In page 12 of the first book, there is a panel of a close up of the forearm of Vladek. Later a few more pages in the book when Vladek is in the concentration camp, there is a person who tells him to have faith and that his numbers all represent something.

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In the first couple of pages in the first book we see that Art describes his youth and how he was playing with his friends. Art falls and goes crying to Vladek. Vladek gives him an advice of "if you lock them together in a room with no food for a week then you'll see who is a friend" pretty much about to foreshadow him explaining his life in the concentration camp.

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During the war, the family received a voucher about a nursing home in Germany that will take good care of them. This was in order to relocate the elders because they wouldn't survive but were later killed.

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They are Vladeks neighbors at catskills. Out of a sudden when Art came to visit his father they sort of kidnapped him asking him if he was going to take Vladek with him back to his house. I assume they are Polish because their character is a pig.

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He was a former customer of Vladek. The two are encountered during the black marketing going on and begin to talk about how much they haven't seen each other. He offers Vladek to send Richieu off to Poland with someone he knows in Poland but Anja refuses saying she wouldn't send her son off to some stranger.

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Mala is Vladek's second wife. At the beginning of the book I thought she was the servent of Anja and Vladek. As I read more I realized that wasn't a maid but it was his second wife. I didn't realize that because they do not get along and by the looks of it she is just interested in his money.

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He is a soldier in the concentration camp. Vladek thought him how to speak English and in return Yidl gave him food and a fitted jumper suit.

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Francoise is Art's wife. She wasn't really mentioned in the first book from my memory, but we learn that she is French.

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He is Art's therapist. Art visited him a day after he went with his father. Pavel makes Art feel better and makes him more calmer with his sessions.

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Lolek is Vladek's son. He sends a letter to Vladek saying that it was safe to hide at Auschwitz. Vladek later realizes that it wasn't actually safe when to moved there.

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He is Anja's father. He is a wealthy man and is respected by some Germans. That is how he got his way around to keep himself a little longer by not going into the concentration camps so quickly.

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She is Anja's older sister. Her husband is Wolfe. During the Holocaust she poisons herself along with her children and Richieu.

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Vladek claims that this was his cousin in order for him to go away from the concentration camp.

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Art Spiegelman is the author of the novel MAUS. He positioned himself as the main characer about the book. Throughout the book we learnt hat he his an author in his book and asks his dad, Vladek, to talk baout his time in the concentration camps and how life was for him being a mouse(Jew).

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Richieu is Art's brother. He is deceased so Art does not know much about him. He passed away when his aunt, Tosha, poisoned herself, her kids and Richieu. Art was not born during when he was alive.

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Anja is the mother of Art who commit suicide a few years after the Holocaust ended. In the book we learn that she comes from a wealthy family. Vladek describes her as not as attractive but the connection they shared was loved for all the sacrificed they went through together.

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Vladek is Art's dad. In the book he learn he has some sort of mental illness. It is not really told except that he has diabetes. He bumps head with his son Art constantly and is always arguing with his second wife Mala.