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Summary. Analysis. When Artie arrives at the house for his next visit with Vladek, he finds Mala crying at the kitchen table. Vladek has been making her miserable again; she complains about his stinginess, telling Artie that he refuses to give her money for even small personal expenses. She remembers how, right after they were married, Vladek ...
- Part 1, Chapter 1
The next day, Vladek goes with his cousin to meet Anja in...
- Part 1, Chapter 1
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, 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.
Vladek and Anja meet up with the smugglers at a train station in Katowice. They grow suspicious when one of the smugglers disappears to make a phone call, but get on the train anyway. Just an hour later, in Bielsko-Biala, where Vladek had his former factory, they are caught by the Germans, who have been tipped off by the smugglers.
Anja’s story has two different endings. In Vladek’s telling, Anja is freed by the Russians and returns to Sosnowiec before Vladek arrives there. When he finally finds her again, after a long separation where each feared the other was dead, they embrace and live “happy, happy ever after,” according to Vladek. As we know from the book’s ...
Maus: Part 2, Chapter 2. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The first panel of the chapter shows Artie bent over a drawing table. The panel shows him in profile, and only his head and shoulders are visible. Two flies buzz next to his head.
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The next day, Vladek goes with his cousin to meet Anja in town. The two women talk in English, neither knowing Vladek understands them; Anja admits that she finds Vladek handsome and very nice. The cousin contrives to leave Vladek and Anja alone together, at which point Vladek teases Anja, revealing that he speaks English – he taught himself ...
