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Throughout the story many of the characters are defined by animals to help provide emphasis on race and beliefs. This scene reveals the most about the role the animals played.

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The last time Vladek saw Anja was on the way to camp on a bus, in the comic strip you can see that it shows their few last moments together and neither of them are aware of it. This left me feeling sad.

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I think out of all the situations that took place in this book the ones in Auschwitz left me with the biggest impact. Hearing stories of how bad it was always scares me.

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i felt horrified when Tosha decided to kill her family rather than send them into the gas chamber.

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When Vladek and Artie are walking around they realize that they have nowhere to go. I saw a part of the relationship they had become revealed because Artie was given the key to Vladek's safety box because Vladek doesn't know if he is going to make it out of the war alive.

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Another climax of the story that I saw was when Nahum and his son were hung by the Nazi's and left hung for a week because they sold goods without using coupons.

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Throughout the book Vladek has many heart attacks. He seems to somehow survive them all even when put in scary situations. But in 1982 Vladek dies of a congestive heart failure. This leaving an impact on me as the reader in a horrific state of mind.

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The scene when Anja was found was one of the only happy scenes that I can recall after reading the story. Seeing Anja be reunited with her family was a very high point in the book.

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The Climax of the story is when Anja  and Vladek are experiencing the death camps at Auschwitz. We don't experience the horror but its emotionally draining to analyze.

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Artie plays a key role in this story being Valdek's son. An important scene that involves Artie is this one that is shown in the picture below. Artie's character or key role in the novel is that he is constantly revolving around guilt. He is caught be

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Miloch is Haskel's brother and also one of the cousins of Vladek. He sells cake that ends up making a ton of people sick in the ghetto. But he makes a ton of money by doing so. He is an impatient character and because of that he gets killed. He tried do distract the guards that end up finding him and killing them.

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Haskel is the cousin of Vladek and the chief of the Jewish police. He has a lot of information in the ghetto which their staying and he becomes a good source of knowledge or a good person to know while they are there. Since he is the chief he is a smart person to be friends with. As Vladek and Anja are being sent away to Auschwitz, Haskel begins trying to help them get out in exchange for valuables. In the end he does refuse to help them and Haskel ends up being a survivor of the war.

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Lolek is Uncle Hermans son, and Vladek's nephew. While the German occupation is occurring Lolek live's with Anja and her family. During this time they first start off living in Anja's fathers house but they move to live in the ghetto later. The Nazi's evacuated the town and Vladek has prepared to save his family including Lolek by putting them all in a shelter and the invasion happens. Lolek is done trying to hide, he gets bored and doesn't seem to care or comprehend what could possibly happen to him fully. Lolek is soon transported to Auschwitz and he survives the camps. Once he is out of Auschwitz and the Holocaust in general he becomes a professor.

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Nahum Cohn is a business partner and a friend of Vladek's during the black market days that took place in Sosnowiec. Him along with his son both sell "goods" without coupons and end up getting arrested for doing so. The Nazis hang them on a known wall and leave them there for a week using both him and his son as an example of what not to do and to show what will happen if they sell good's without using coupons.

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Before the Holocaust Mr. Ilzecki was a common customer of Vladek's. He and Vladek had done business before in Sosnowiec. Mr. Ilzecki has a son who is the same age as RIchieu, They all but Anja, think that it would be a good idea to take the sons to a safer place while the war is occurring but Anja refuses to let that happened. In the end it would have been a good idea because Mr. Ilzecki's son survived while Richieu and Ilzecki both passed away in the Holocaust.

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Tosha is Anja's older sister. She is the one who takes her relatives under her wing and poisons them instead of letting her family die in a gas chamber. She lives in Poland with her sister and her father and her husband. Her and her husband, Wolfe have a young daughter name Bibbi. Tosha is sent away to a ghetto. They think that it is going to be safer place but it isn't. She is found there and decides that she would rather poison her family than have them be killed by someone else.

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Uncle Herman is Anja's brother. He is visiting a fair in New York City when the war begins, he was with his wife when the news occurred. They both decide that it is better for them to stay in the states instead of going back home to the war. They thought it would be best for them to stay out of the trouble completely. Uncle Herman has a son who is 15 years old and a young daughter name Lonia. The son is sent to Auschwitz, the daughter is poisoned by Tosha rather than being sent to the gas chambers.

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Orbach is a from Poland. He is the one who pretends he is related to Mr. Zylberberg so Anja and him can escape from Auschwitz. He says that they are cousins but they really are just close friends with the each other. When Obach claims them as family they are released into custody and then Anja and Mr. Zylberberg escape the rest of their way out from there and end up back at Sosnowiec.

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Mr. Zylberberg is Anja's father, he is the man who provides the textile factory to Vladek in the book. It is often seen that he is a very wealthy man who owns his own factory. He along side of his family is sent away to Auschwitz. He bribes his cousins to relases him and his daughter, Anja. He does accept the payment from Zylberberg but in the end he is unwilling to help them. Anja and her father both end up dying in Auschwitz.

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Francoise is Artie's wife. She turns Jewish for their relationship to make Arties father, Vladek happier. She doesn't play a huge role in the story, though she is a very wise and intelligent young woman. The relationship she has with her husband is very strong. One of her most noticeable qualities throughout the story of MAUS is her trait of being opinionated.

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Mala is the suspicious second wife of Vladek. She is also a Holocaust survivor and she was also a family friend before the Holocaust happened. Through out the book she is seen mainly as being someone who wants everything. She is always upset with Vladek for not giving or splitting any of his money with her. She gets SO mad at him that she decides to move away to Florida but soon enough her and Vladek come to a better judgement and agreement.

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Richieu Spiegelman is Anja and Vladek's first born child. He was born where Anja and Vladek met, in Poland in the year of 1937. Richieu gets sent a couple year later to live under the protection of his Uncle Persis. It is though that if he goes there he will not be taken as easy. He was safer there than with Anja and Vladek. Richieu goes with Anja's Sister, Tosha. His aunt takes him with a few other relatives and ends up being caught. Instead of being killed in a gas chamber it is decided by his aunt, Tosha that she should take them under her wing and kill them with poison. After he passed away his memory still left an affect, especially on Artie. He feels a lot of rivalry with him even though they have never crossed paths.

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Anja was Vladek's first wife. They met at a time when Vladek was in a long term relationship with another woman. But shortly after they start speaking and then soon proceed to getting married. EVen then they shortly after had their first son together, Richieu. Anja much like Artie suffers from a history of mental illness, hers being less server. After her first son was born she suffered from depression and anxiety. Her father gives Vladek a start on being a strong wealthy man by loaning him a factory. Soon after they get sent to the Holocaust and they both still married, survive it. They end up moving to the United States shortly after. Once they arrive she commits suicide leaving both Vladek and her son Artie in a terrible place.

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Vladek is the father of Artie. A lot of Vladek's experiences of the Holocaust are what the basis and the story line of MAUS is about. The book begins with a scene regarding the marriage of Vladek and his second wife that he does not at all get along with. His wife's name is Mala, and she basically wants everything including all of Vladek's money. Yet he refuses to give it to her because he is suspicious of what she might do with it, he thinks that she may put it into her lifetimes savings. Vladek is married to Arties mother before the invasion happens. They have their first child together, who ends up dying in the Holocaust. Most of Vladek's character traits come from his experiences in the Holocaust. He is very strongly woven and was a born "provider" for his family. He grows a ton throughout the book by gaining ethics and strong morals.

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Artie also known as Art is the main character of the book MAUS he is the child of Vladek, and he is the only surviving child and he was born after the Holocaust in a town known as Stockholm. Artie's background was rough, he grew up with a history of mental illness and he was married to a lady who turned Jewish because of their relationship. Art feels a constant drag to the topic of the Holocaust, he did not personally go through it but he feels like he is still affected by it. Sometimes he wishes he went through it to know what his family really means when they talk about it. Artie dies in the year of 1982.