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1. Choose 3 adjectives that you think best describe Artie's character and motivations and defend your choices with specific examples from Maus.
2. Writers and illustrators of children's picture books often use animals as protagonists as a means of avoiding having to choose a race or ethnicity for their characters. It has been argued that it is easier for humans to sympathize and identify with animals than with human characters. Why do you think this is?
3. Discuss the usefulness of the "cat and mouse" metaphor in Maus. How appropriate is the metaphor? Does it extend beyond the one-demensional suggestions of a cat-and-mouse chase?
4. Whom would you be more likely to call "selfish"- Vladek or Artie? Support your answer with specific details from Maus.
5. In Spiegelman's title, Maus: A Survivor's Tale, to whom does the word "survivor" apply? Why?
The the word "survivor" in the title Maus: A Survivor's Tale applys to Artie's dad. It refers to his dad because Arti is interviewing his father about his life during the Holocaust for a comic book about his dad during the Holocost. So the survivor who's telling the story is Arties dad because he is the Survivor telling his story about the holocost in the book, Maus: A survivors Tale.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Aaron Garcia Period 3 Question 2
ReplyDeleteI think people sympathize with animals better than with humans because of the animals colors, actions, and physical features of animals. Furthermore I also think this because of the distinction of their size, height and weight.Finally because of what someone might tell you or in Maus case because of what Hitler saw the jews as, rodents.
Pablo Arevalo Period 3 Question 1
ReplyDeleteThe three adjectives that I would use to describe Artie are curious, common, and informative. I think Artie is curious because he wants to know more about the time when his father was young and when he was in the holocaust. He is common because you can tell by the story that he is not known by the world or by many people in the city. You can tell he lives an average life. The last word that I would use to describe Artie is informative because he gets the lives of people, like his father, and writes stories about their lives. He informs people who don't know about what is happening to the Jewish people during WWII. These are the three adjectives I would use to describe Artie, curious, common, and informative.
Zane Todywala period 3 group 1 question 1
ReplyDeleteThree adjectives that describe Artie to me are smart,rushed,and curious.I think he is smart because he knows alot about the Holocaust and he likes to learn new things.I think he was rushed because every time his father would say something important he would think it is not so he would say to get on with the story.Lastly I think he is curious because he kept asking his dad question of the Holocaust.Those are the three adjectivs to me that describe Artie.
Steven Marin,group5, period3, question5
ReplyDeleteIn Spieglehman's Survivor's Tale, he reffers to his dad who is a Hollaucost survivor, a mental survivor of the Hollaucost, and a survivor of his wifes death. His dad has also survived things during the Hollaucast, that could've had him dead, by friends or family members. Art's dad also survived the mental torture of the Hollaucost, by not struggling mentally with all the tortures, and murdering going on in the contratrarion camps.One more reason why Art's dad is a survivor is, because he survived his wifes suicide, by not thinking of himself commiting suicide, and he just kept on with his life through all these struggles. To me he is a very mentally strengthful person
Santiago Molero Period 3 Question 3
ReplyDeleteThe usefulness of the "cat and mouse" metaphor in Maus is that it can relate to how cats chase mice. It can also relate to how humans trap mice and kill them. I think this metaphor is appropiate because it's related to real life. I like his idea of using the "cat and mouse" metaphor. I think it does extend beyond the one-demensional suggestions of a cat-and-mouse chase because the mice and the cats have human characteristics and it makes it more realistic and related to the Holocaust.
Andres Vila Period Three Group One
ReplyDeleteI think that three words that describe Artie are curious, smart, and dedicated. He is curious because he wont stop asking his dad to tell him about the story and dedicated because even if Vladek says no, he still asks. Artie is also very smart. He knows that if he writes a story of a holocaust survivor, it will become popular, and he will become rich and famous.
Adrian Hernandez Period 3 Question 5
ReplyDeleteIn Spiegleman's title, Maus: A Srvivor's Tale "survivor" applies to Vladek, Artie's dad. This is because the story is about Artie interviewing Vladek to know life before, mainly during, and after the Holocaust. Artie is the interviewer and Vladek is the story teller.
Oscar Ortega,Period:3,Question 3
ReplyDeleteThe reason why they use cat and mice is because they try to hide there identity. How it relates is that cats chase mice. So, the book is telling you how the mice are trying to escape form the cats. I like his idea of cats and mice because it explains like in real life we trap mice to kill them, as the cats did. But, in the story they really did kill real people, like some people do today.
Diego Rivera, Period 3, Question 2
ReplyDeleteI think is easier for humans to sympathize and identify with animal characters than with human characters because with animal characters it doesn't really matter if you mock or criticize what racial or ethnicity the character is. In the book Maus (the cat) Hitler says that (the mice) the Jews are pests.
Alfredo Cepero Period 3 Question 2
ReplyDeleteI think that the authors and illustrators of children's picture books often use animals as a symbol to tell something that is happening in the book at that time. It could also show the power that those characters had at that time. It could also be done like that to hide the race of those characters and their backgrounds.
In Maus, a survivors tale, the "survivor" is Artie's dad Vladek. It applies to Vladek because Artie is taking notes on his father when he and his family are struggling as Jews to survive the Holocaust. He tells Artie his life as a Polish solider, a father of a boy, a husband, and surviving the camps.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Arthur Garcia period 3 question 3
ReplyDeleteThe cat and th mouse metaphor directly relates to the book Maus. The metaphor implies that the cat chases the mouse. In the book Maus the cats are the Nazi and the mice are the Jews. The Nazi are chasing the Jews; just as the cats chase the mice. That is why this metaphor is appropriate.
Benjamin Cardenas, period 3, question 2
ReplyDeleteI think that the authers of children's books use animals to take up the place of humans so their would not be no racism to the humans. It also helps identify the different groups of people for example the jews(mice), the nazis(cats), the people of poland(pigs)
In Spielgelman title MAUS A SURVIVORS TALE, the word survivior applies to Arties's father. Artie's father, Vladek, is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. The story is called a survivors tale because Vladek survives the Holocaust and throughout the story, he is explaining to his son, Artie, ho he survived in the concentration camps, and how he managed to survive the Holocaust.
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