I’m not very good at trying to see a hidden message in stories, but in pages 40-47, Artie draws himself as a child almost as if he’s stuck. While the reporters are all in face, that’s when he transforms himself to a kid, and to me it seems like Artie still feels like he doesn’t know how to handle all of these things yet. It seems like Artie is still struggling to accomplish his book, and he hasn’t figured out a way to motivate himself to write it.  Vladek talked A LOT about the war in this chapter, but it was mainly about his experience in there. He talked a lot about how he worked. He first began to help a Kapo learn English. In return, Vladek was given better food. Another job Vladek had was a shoemaker. Vladek kind of lied about being good at the job, but he wasn’t too bad either. What’s ironic about the last panels in chapter 2 is that Artie is killing mosquitoes with pesticide, and pesticide is what was used in the gas chambers to kill the Jews.   

When Artie shares with Vladek a story about Jews revolting and killing 3 SS guards, Vladek seems to not really care. He says that they were killed for anyway. To me, it seemed like Vladek thought it was a dumb idea because it backfired quickly. The only reason Vladek survived out of the cable car was because he made a little bed of sorts. Vladek still had a thin blanket with him, so he made a hammock like area, and laid up there to rest. As they were driving, they notice a hitchhiker and pick him up to take him to his location. Because of this, we quickly learn that Vladek is racist, which is really ironic. Franciose is disgusted by Vladek’s by how rude and disrespectful he was being. She found it shocking how he could be racist, when Vladek himself was a victim of the Holocaust. Since Vladek can’t remember much from a day but can remember the war accurately, it tells me that his experience was immensely traumatizing that he remembers every detail. One event that occurs is that Vladek makes everyone go to the grocery store so he could change out his cereal. Another event is that during the war, Vladek hid in an unused attic until the camp is evacuated. A third event is that the Nazis made all of the Jews march into Germany to Gross-Rosen, a small camp with no gas chambers. Another event is that in order to receive food, all prisoners are forced to remove their shirts for inspection before every meal. If the shirt has lice, they are denied food. Lastly, we learn that Vladek is racist when Franciose stops for a hitch hiker. He kept saying slurs about the hitch hiker because he was black.