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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, 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 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.
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.
Book 1, Chapter 6 ends the first half of Maus, and Spiegelman leaves the reader with a cliffhanger of sorts, at the entry gates to Auschwitz itself. Vladek has burned all of Anja's journals, which Artie says he desperately needs for his book. In later interviews Spiegelman said he would have been more likely to tell Anja's story instead of ...
Maus: Part 1, Chapter 3. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Artie is still visiting Vladek often, trying to collect as much information as possible about Vladek’s past. Eating dinner at his father’s house one evening, Artie tells Mala about the extreme lengths to ...
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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 ...
