https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu Book by Art Spiegelman, blog by Cameron Hoover en-us 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC 2019-04-03 05:00:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891576 Chapter 1 - The title "Mauschwitz" and the illustration foreshadow that Vladek will spend time inside of Auschwitz. Five events from this chapter are Art contacting his father after being told he had a heart attack, Vladek and Anja being split up, the prisoners having their clothes taken and given uniforms, Vladek beginning to teach one of the other, more privileged prisoners how to speak english, and finally Vladek being rewarded for doing so with a bunch of food and fitted clothes. Artie almost seems to reset his ghost brother for being the better son. He is angry at his parents since his brother could never do anything wrong but Artie caused issues all the time. In Auschwitz, the priest cheers up Vladek by saying his id number adds up to 18, the number of life in the Jewish faith. Mandelbaum was a prisoner, like Vladek, who was given a terrible selection of clothing including pants so big he had to constantly hold them up, and a shoe too small to put on. Vladek asked a guard he was teaching english to if he could get him clothes that fit and he did. Mandelbaum eventually got taken away to work. Vladek's attitude this chapter changed in two ways. In Auschwitz, he had lost hope until the priest gave him hope. After things started going alright with the guard, he said he felt actually happy while there. The other way he changed was that he seems much more positive towards Art. I think its because he is sucking up too him in fear of the anger Art has since telling him about the burned diaries. The obvious symbolism in the titles Mauschwitz and Catskills is that every character in the book are represented as animals.]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891576 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891577 Artie portrays himself as human with a mouse mask over his face. I think maybe he does this to differentiate himself from the Jewish people of the time of the Holocaust. It could be that or maybe he isn't completely "with" the Jewish culture. In this chapter Vladek tells more about what happened in Auschwitz. He changed jobs multiple times, found ways to contact Anna, and did what he could to keep them both alive. The last job he did was being a tinman again and while doing so he learned all about the horrors and gruesome details of the process of gassing people and disposing of their bodies. I have no idea what is ironic about the last couple panels but i'd have to guess the bug spray can is ironically alluding to the gas used in the holocaust.]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891577 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891578 Five events from chapter 3 are everyone being forced to walk for miles, everyone being shoved into trains to be taken further into germany, stopping to recieve food from the red cross, everyone being put into another camp to work, and finally a passenger train coming to take everyone to the swiss border in a prisoner exchange. Vladek's opinion about the prisoner revolt is that it was a dumb idea since it got them killed on the spot. He survived the train by suspending himself onto the cieling of the train car and eating snow from the roof. Vladek disgusts Franciose when he says racist things about black people. I think this part was included because he didn't want to hide anything, he wanted to tell the whole story. I think the fact that he has long term memory from the holocaust tells us that it truly was a traumatic experience that not even age can make a person forget. I think he put the picture at the end of the book instead of the front because it would ruin the point of making all characters look the same. Everyone in the book is represented as a stereotype basically.

]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891578 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891579 Hoover, Cameron. "MAUS Blog III." Padlet, 2 April, 2019,
https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891579 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891581 Spiegelman, Art. Maus II : a Survivor's Tale : and Here My Troubles Began. New York :Pantheon Books, CH. 1-3, 1991. Print.

]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891581 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891592 Main Character. Story is told through his words to his son, Art. He is a Jewish survivor who is haunted by memories of fear suffering caused by the Holocaust and Auschwitz. ]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891592 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891593 Vladek and Anja's son. He is listening and recording down stories his fathers experiences in the form of comics, as well as their own conversations.]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891593 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891594 Artie's mother and Vladek's late wife. She alone survived through the Holocaust with Vladek but suffered from extreme depression. She killed herself not too long after her second son was born.]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891594 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891595 Vladek's second wife with whom he doesn't get along with at all. She seems to be only after his money at the point of the story being written.]]> 2019-04-03 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347891595 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347905298 2019-04-03 03:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347905298 cameronhoover1025 https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347916402 Art's wife. His father did not approve of her but she converted to their religion in order to please him. She sort of help the two reason with each other as they argue.]]> 2019-04-03 04:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cameronhoover1025/2tkz2dih8wwu/wish/347916402