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Vladek tells Mrs. Kawka he would do anything to get out of Poland. Mrs. Kawka tells him about two people she knows who have been working as smugglers, taking people to Hungary – they took two of her previous Jewish borders, she says, with good results. Vladek, who is clearly very excited by this news, tells her he’d like to meet the smugglers.
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A panel shows Lucia stretched out on Vladek’s bed in a slip,...
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Thus, Vladek’s destruction of the diaries destroyed Artie’s inheritance from Anja. The pain of the Holocaust continues to haunt both Vladek and Artie, proving that pain is an enduring inheritance. A summary of Chapter 6: Mouse Trap in Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of ...
Vladek agrees to tell his story to Art, for a book Art plans to write about Vladek’s life. Vladek begins his story before the war. As a young man, he is in a relationship with a young woman named Lucia Greenberg when he meets Anja, his future wife and Art’s mother. Vladek courts Anja. By 1936, they are engaged, and they marry on February 14 ...
Vladek, Anja, and Mandelbaum meet the smugglers at the train station, and they all board the train. After about an hour, however, they are arrested and stripped of their possessions. They have been betrayed by the smugglers. Vladek is made to board a truck with a hundred other prisoners and is transported to Auschwitz.
Part 1, Chapter 3. Themes and Colors Key. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Summary. Analysis. For several months, Artie visits his father regularly to hear more of his stories. He arrives one day to find Vladek counting pills; Vladek reveals that he takes 25 or 30 ...
Maus: Part 2, Chapter 1. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. It is summer. Artie and Françoise are vacationing with friends in Vermont. Artie is doodling outside, trying to decide how to draw Françoise in his book. On his sketchpad, he tries out different animal ...
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Vladek Spiegelman. Vladek is in many ways a baffling character. In his story of surviving World War II and the Holocaust, he is truly heroic. But in the present day, he is high-strung and disagreeable. Most notably, Vladek is extremely tight with his money. At one point, he returns opened packages of cereal and crackers to the store for a refund.
