The Complete Maus Quotes Part A (family/trauma/frugal) Flashcards
Lack of Vladek’s sympathy towards Art quote
“hold better on the wood” while Art is crying
Quote about not seeing in long time
“I hadn’t seen him in a long time”
Quote about not being close
“we weren’t that close”
Quote about visiting father
“visit[s] [his] father quite regularly to hear his story”
Quote about visiting father
“I visited my father more often”
Art’s frustrations with father
“I just can’t believe it”
Art calls Vladek in reference to Anja’s diaries
“murderer” because he “destroyed” diaries
Art hesitation love quote
“Yes… I -um- love you too.”
Art feel sorry quote
‘“feel sorry for [Vladek]”’
Art driven crazy by Vladek quote
when he has to ‘“spend any time with him, then he [Vladek] drives [Art] crazy.”’
Make sense of relationship/Auschwitz quote
“I can’t even make any sense out of my relationship with my father. How am I supposed to make sense of Auschwitz… of the Holocaust”
Choose parents go to oven quote
‘“think about which of [his] parents [he’d] let the Nazis take to the oven” choose to save mother
Art on Richieu quotes (2)
‘“sibling rivalry”’, ’“ideal kid”’
Arguments father urgency quote
‘“Somehow my arguments with my father have lost a little of their urgency”’
Be fair but show anger quote
‘“tried to be fair and still show the anger [he] felt”’
Art arguing with Father childhood
Art remarks that he mainly remembers ‘“arguing”’ with his father and ‘“being told that [he] couldn’t do anything as well as [Vladek] could”’
Art frustrations with Vladek 2
‘Please Pop. The tape’s on. Let’s continue’ and ‘ENOUGH! Tell me about Auschwitz!
Why Art wants Mala to take Vladek back
Art hopes that Mala takes Vladek back because ‘“otherwise he’s [his] responsibility and [Art] doesn’t think that he can take him for too much longer”’
Art is ashamed to go to shops with Vladek
“ashamed”
Vladek is (racist)
“racist”
Nothing compared to Auschwitz quote
“No matter what I accomplish it doesn’t seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz”
Art felt compete with Vladek
“compete with him”
Quote about mother’s suicide effect on Vladek
“mothers suicide… taken [its] toll” on Vladek
Quote on parent’s friends survivors
“she was [Mala] a survivor too, like most of my parents’ friends”
Anja described as being
“nervous”
Quote about saving self present
“I must fight to save myself”
Quote about suffering in reference to eye
“you see how I have to suffer” but this extends to his experiences of the Holocaust
Vladek happen again quote
“just in case” about bunker
No more family everyone for self quote
“it wasn’t anymore families. It was everybody to take care for himself
Want to die Anja quote (3)
“let me die too”, “the whole family is gone”, “i don’t want to live
Die easy struggle survive quote
“to die it’s easy but you have to struggle for life”
Mala Vladek like no one quote
“all our friends went through the camps. No one is like him.”
Going to Auschwitz quote
“here we will not come out anymore”
Put from mind rebuild memories quote
‘“All such things of the war, I tried to put out from my mind once for all… until you rebuild me all this from your questions”’
Eye witness quote
“eye witness”
Some ways didn’t survive quote
“but in some ways he didn’t survive”
All left photos quote
“all what is left, it’s the photos”
Quote on Mala not getting along
“They didn’t get along”
Dreams of America quote
“dreamed of going to America”
Mala crazy quote money
“Mala makes me crazy. Only she talks about money”
Mala on Vladek attached to things
“he’s more attached to things than people”
Mala money quote
“She screamed I want the money the money the money”
Mala prison
“I feel like I’m in prison”
Vladek frugality quote
“cheap”, “won’t spend any money” as evidenced by him reprimanding Art for using the wooden matches that ‘he must buy’ rather than the ‘free’ matches
Hitler crumb frugality quote
“ever since Hitler I don’t like to throw out even a crumb”
