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Gray- Maus
Madison Gray
Mr.Bradley
Honors English
19 September 2017

Maus Literary Analysis Essay

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If Maus was read 1, could it be interpreted differently? If Passive voice
a man and women read Maus could the Male interpret
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things differently then 2 the women? In both of the books Possibly confused word
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Maus i 3 and Maus ii, by Art Spiegelman, Vladek's [ i → I]
survival is questioned several times throughout the book,
The question of whether Vladek survived from dumb luck
or his skill set could be interpreted 4 differently. Vladek
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shows many skills 5 in both Maus 6 i 7 and Maus ii, Passive voice
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whether he is speaking different languages, talking to Repetitive word: skills
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guards, or exchanging materials for food, he is always Squinting modifier
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[ i → I]
showing the skills he possesses . 8 On the other hand 9
Vladek also seems to have a lot of 10 dumb luck, from a
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wide range of making friends, being in the right place at [possesses . → possesses.]
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the right time, and out thinking the guards or befriending [hand,]
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them. [a lot of → much]

Vladek shows many of his skills, one skill that he

shows was on page 49, Vladek says “I spoke in 11
German 12 and his partner stopped him from beating
me”. 13 Vladek could speak German which gave him the
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advantage of communicating with the guards, from talking [spoke in → spoke to]
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to the guards it allowed him to not only understand what [German,]
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[”. → .”]
they were saying but it stopped him from getting beat. On
page 51, Vladek talked 14 to workers and was able to figure
out where Anja, his girlfriend was, he figured out that she
was not far from his camp and that she was teaching
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english 15. German was not the only language he could Repetitive word: talked
speak, he 16 could also speak French and English. Which
also gave him many more advantages. Being able to
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speak 17 other languages was a handy skill to have. Art [english → English]
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spiegelman 18 wrote Vladek's text in broken english 19, [speak, he → speak; he]
Making a point that Vladek was not fluent with 20 speaking
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English but could speak it. Repetitive word: speak
Another skill Vladek shows was on page 60, “Do you
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need a new shoemaker”. 21 Vladek gets a job as a [spiegelman → Spiegelman]
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shoemaker, a skill he had picked up during his childhood. [english → English]
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Vladek must prove himself worthy of a shoemaker to a [fluent with → fluent in]
German guard by fixing a pair of shoes in a little amount
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of time, The 22 guard is amazed by how well Vladek did on [”. → .”]
the shoes. After Vladek got the shoemaker job he also got
a nice warm room to make shoes in, he was able to trade
and repair shoes for prisoners and guards in exchange for
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food or other materials. [time, The → time; The]
Although Vladek shows skill 23 he also seems to have a lot
of 24 dumb luck throughout both books. On page 25, 28 in
the second book, Vladek meets a priest. Every prisoner in
the camp got an identification number on there 26 arm, The
priest noticed something special about Vladek's numbers
on his armband, “and look! Added together it totals 18.
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That is ‘chai’, 27 the hebrew 28 number of life”. The priest [skill,]
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told Vladek that he would make it out alive “ I can't 29 [a lot of → much]
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know if i’ll 31 30 survive this hell, but i'm 33 32 certain 34 that [the page or a page]
you’ll 35 come through all this alive!”. This 36 was lucky
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because no one else in the camp got any lucky arm [there → their]
meanings or any signs of hope. Therefore after Vladek
talked to the priest 37 he started to gain hope, hope that
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survival was a possibility. [chai', → chai,']
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Lastly, on page 93 in the first book, a French man who is [hebrew → Hebrew]
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illustrated as a frog befriends Vladek and decides to share [can't → cannot]
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food with him, all throughout the book Vladek meets many [i'll → I'll]
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[i'll → i will]
people and makes many friends, all of which help him in 32
[i'm → I'm]
some way, But the Frenchman is the only ‘frog’ that 33
[i'm → i am]
Vladek encounters. 38 Art Spiegelman made the french 39 34
Overused word: certain
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man a frog to illustrate that he is French. In the illustration [you'll → you will]
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on page 93, it shows the Frenchman sharing his red cross Unclear antecedent
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box with Vladek. The French man was not a jew which [priest,]
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allowed him to receive food boxes from the red cross.

Vladek gets very 40 lucky and sells some of the food that
the frenchman 41 gave him for a shirt that eventually gets
him more soup from the guards. If Vladek would not
have 42 made friends he would not have survived, Vladek
got very lucky that his friends were willing to share their
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things creating a bond. i Possibly confused word

The question of whether Vladek survived from dumb luck

or skill could be debated back and forth, 43 because anyone
could read Maus and interpret the story differently just like
a man and a women 44 could read the story and have
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different opinions on how Vladek survived. Although, 45 [gets very → gets very]
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Vladek's survival could go either way, There are many [frenchman → Frenchman]

reason 46 that point to his survival being due to his skills

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but also many that lead to his survival being due to dumb [would not have → had not]

luck. The author of Maus, Art Spiegelman used many

examples, 47 but was not clear on the reason of Vladek's
survival which is why it was questioned so many times
throughout both books.

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[forth, ]

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[a women → women]
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[Although, ]

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[reason → reasons]

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[examples, ]