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Prisoner of war
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Find a quote that supports this claim. Families can be taken apart using similes.
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find a quote in maus that supports this claim. Families can be taken apart using metaphors.
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The honeymoon
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the sheik
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Do Artie and Francoise have a restful vacation at Vladek's bungalow in the Catskills? Why or why not?
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How did Vladek make some cash?
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Why does vladeks family refuse to save any money
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On page 11, Spiegelman tells us that his father’s second wife Mala was a survivor too, like most of his parents’ friends. Why does Spiegelman call Mala a survivor? What does he mean?
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What kind of relationship does Art Spiegelman and his father, Vladek have? Use specific pictures and text to support your answer.
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Why does Vladek choose Anja over Lucia? What do you think of his choice?
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Why does Art Spiegelman use mice instead of people to portray the characters in the story? What do the mice represent?
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Maus
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By the time Vladek returns to Sosnowiec from the prisoner of war camp, what has happened to the food supply ?
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Maus: Book I
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THE SHIEK
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Why did Art Spiegelman include himself in the very beginning of Maus?
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Aspects of family trauma in Spiegelman's Maus?
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Why does Spiegelman include his much older comic “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”? What function does the comic-within-the-comic serve? Why does Spiegelman include actual photos of himself and his mother at the beginning of “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”? Ski
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Why do people show up for public inspections, despite suspicions of German motives? What skills or qualities does Vladek possess that help him survive and sometimes even prosper? Are there drawbacks to these qualities as well?How much of Vladek’s survival
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What social, historical,and cultural elements cause cultures or identities to clash
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We see some Jew's who have been hanged by the Germans. What other "noose" is tightening in this chapter?
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Did you think about some of the choices that had to be made in this chapter? What would you have decided in the same situations?
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