Maus Responses by Tonya Lappin

tlappin1 — 2025-04-16 12:38:19 UTC

Discuss your table's question. Tallest group member: Write a 3 or 4-sentence response. Shortest group member: Read the response to the class

Table 1: How does the author use SYMBOLISM in his graphic novel?

Table 2: Look at the different sizes of the graphic panels. Why might the author choose to make some big and others small? Give specific examples.

Table 3: The excerpt concludes with an allusion to 1944. Why is this significant? What does the author assume you know about 1944?

Table 4: How might this story be different if it were told in a different format? What is the author able to add in a graphic novel that might be missing from a poem or short story?

Table 5: How do you see elements of praise, mockery, or mourning in the excerpt? Explain.

Table 6: Create a plot triangle for the exerpt. Include: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution.

tlappin1 — 2025-04-16 12:42:50 UTC

2025-04-16 12:57:30 UTC

There was a variation of all three throughout the story. We see praise when they have hope of making it to freedom in the beginning. We see mourning when they make it to the camp Auschwitz. There is mockery throughout the whole book becasue of the fact that the author uses animals to represent races.

2025-04-16 12:58:03 UTC

The author uses symbolism by using different animals to represent different culture. By using mice for the Jews to show that they were thought of as nasty disgusting people. Then using pigs for the polish to show that they were dirty and mistreated. They also used the Germans as cats to show how cats are superior to the mice.

2025-04-16 12:58:07 UTC

Table 3-

This is significant because around 1944 concentration camps started. The author assumes we know about Ann Franke and Auschwitz’s camp being the leading cause of her death. 1944 is also significant because of the impact the holocaust left.

2025-04-16 12:58:28 UTC

The story will be different if it was told in a different format by not being as realistic or not showing the full meaning. The author could add how it was in the concentration camps. This would show how bad and how scary it was.

2025-04-16 12:58:37 UTC

The author might make panels different sizes to employ different emotions or the intensity of emotion. Such as the concentration camp panel its big and the only that doesn’t have a border. Having the size difference we can see how the mice’s situation affects their appearance/emotion.

Table 2

nguyenc32 — 2025-04-16 12:59:09 UTC

In the exposition the Jews discussed leaving Poland to go to Hungary with the help of smugglers. In the rising action the Jews prepare to go on the train after receiving the letter from Abraham saying that all is well and safe. In the climax the smugglers betray the Jews and call the Gestapo to imprison the Jews. In the falling action the Jews spend some time in the prison with some other Polish citizens before they are taken away. In the resolution the Jews acknowledge and accept their grim fate after being brought to the concentration camp Auschwitz.