Maus, a Graphic novel

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Short summary on chapter 5

Chapter 5 begins with artie spiegelman having a bad dream about his father fixing the roof. After that he doesn't visit his dad for a while. When he visits again the roof is fixed with the help of the neighbor. Artie also discovered that his dad read the comic about his mother committing suicide it had a lot of impact on Vladek. When Vladek tells about the war it's mostly about hiding and trying to survive the war while every jew is being taken or shot. A lot of heavy stuff happened in this chapter

Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist best known for Maus, a graphic novel that recounts Spiegelman's father's experiences as a Holocaust survivor. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. Spiegelman used animals as metaphors for the Nazi's view of the world: Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, etc.

What do you think a graphic novel is?

A graphic novel is a story that is presented in comic-strip format and published as a book.

The term ‘graphic novel’ has been in use since the 1960s, though books written in this format did not appear often until the early 1980s. Longer than a short story and more literary than a comic book, the graphic novel uses high quality graphics with text to tell a complete story. Many graphic novels are collections of stories previously published as separate comic books.

What is the difference between a novel and a graphic novel?

Graphic novels give you visual inspiration, while novels give you more freedom to reinvent that world written in front of you.

Name one of the five predominant types of graphic novels

There are five predominant types of graphic novel:

- Manga.

- ​Superhero Stories.

- Non-superhero Stories.

- Personal Narratives.

- Non-fiction.

Who eventually helped Vladek fix the drainpipe on the roof

1. Frank
2. Artie
3. Anja
4. Mala

How did the Germans treat screaming children in Auschwitz?

1. Beat them up
2. Throw them against the wall
3. Shoot them
4. Gas chambers

What killed Tosha and the kids to prevent them of going to Auschwitz

1. Gunshot
2. Poison
3. The Germans killed them
4. They jumped out of the window

THE END

What was the other graphic novel artie wrote called

1. If hell was a prison
2. Trapped in planet hell
3. Prisoner on the hell planet
4. A planet like hell

Maus is a Non-Fiction story because this story actually happened. We also think it's a Superhero story because there are a lot of heroic events that happen in the book. For example:

An heroic event in chapter 5 is the saving of the children by persis persis is someone who has some influence on the germans his 90 year old father still lives within in 1943 every jew above the 70 has been sent to a camp or has been killed persis insists to take the children Wolfe Tosha Bibi Lonia and Richiev