Maus study guide – Flashcards
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Aryan
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White skinned Blue eyes the ideal and superior race.
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Ghetto
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Small and segregated section of a city occupied by jews
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Pauper
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very poor person
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Miserly
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Sadly
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Vermin
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Disgusting, despicable, causing problems for the rest of society.
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Evacuate
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to leave an area
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Pragmatic
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dealing with things sensible and realistically
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Sanitarium
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a medical treatment place for chronic illnesses
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Convalesce
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recover one's health
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Gestapo
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police of nazi germany
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Understand and explain how the artwork functions to the meaning of the story in this graphic novel.
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-Many drawings help supplant for words to keep it from being too wordy. -The artwork uses many symbols -The artwork is all in black and white, this could be because in that time their was no colored television and comics... And because it was a really depressing time.
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Identify and analyze the most important symbols used in the book.
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- Swastika, symbol of the Nazi party, instills fear, power, and control. - Star of David, symbol of the jewish people. In that time it was weakness. - Watches and Jewelry, symbols of wealth - Pig masks, symbolize jews hiding among and pretending to be poles - Cats, symbolize Nazis.
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Vladek
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-Too trusting - Stereotypical, old, angry, Jew - Very possessive, in today's world, one might categorize him as hoarder -Hard to gain his approval
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Anja
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-Cautious -Weak and dependent on others -Very depressed
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Mala
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-May or may not actually care about Vladek for other reasons than his money -Wants a better relationship, and for Vladek to give her more money -Sad about her relationship
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Artie
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-Aspiring young comic artist -Doesn't want to compete with his father -Easily provoked by his father irrational actions
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Theme
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-Warfare (holocaust)- Thorough the whole book it talks about WW2 and what led up to the concentration camps. -Race- Nazis racist idea that jews are less than human (vermin), by making the jewish characters into mice. Also the separation of all the other races into different animals -Memories
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Identify and analyze important events for the Spiegelman family.
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-Vladex meets Anja - They have there first son - They go to a sanitarium because Anja has post partum depression -There family get split up at the stadium -Anja and Vladex hide with differnt people and at differnt places
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Identify and analyze important events of WWII, German control of Poland, and the Holocaust.
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-The nazis killed all the old jews -They took away the rights for jews to work -Limited food -sent all the Jews to concentration camps
