Maus - character description

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4,5

Maus - Character Analysis

Assignment

You have followed one character while reading Maus. Now you can you show your knowledge and test your classmates' knowledge about Art and Vladek. Use your character tracker!

Design 2 questions:

1. A typical quote for your character
2. A description which shows your insight of the character's personality / experiences / perspective.

A typical quote for your character.

A description which shows your insight of the character's personality / experiences / perspective.

"Always you're so lazy!"

1. Vladek
2. Art

"I feel so inadequate trying to reconstruct a reality that was worse than my darkest dreams."

1. Vladek
2. Art

"In some ways he is just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew"

1. Vladek
2. Art

"What you think? Someone will risk their life for nothing?"

1. Vladek
2. Art

"I guess it's kind of guilt about having an easier life than they did."

1. Vladek
2. Art

"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week... Then you could see what it is friends!"

1. Vladek
2. Art

"I won't throw that away, I might use it later."

1. Vladek
2. Art

This character likes to be in control of things. This helps them but also puts a strain on their relationship with others.

1. Vladek
2. Art

This character indirectly deals with the effects of the war.

1. Vladek
2. Art

He has become stubborn and neurotic.

1. Vladek
2. Art

A person who experiences a lot of guilt and resentment.

1. Vladek
2. Art