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Year 12 English > The Complete Maus Quotes Part A (family/trauma/frugal) > Flashcards

The Complete Maus Quotes Part A (family/trauma/frugal) Flashcards

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Lack of Vladek’s sympathy towards Art quote

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“hold better on the wood” while Art is crying

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Quote about not seeing in long time

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“I hadn’t seen him in a long time”

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Quote about not being close

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“we weren’t that close”

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Quote about visiting father

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“visit[s] [his] father quite regularly to hear his story”

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Quote about visiting father

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“I visited my father more often”

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Art’s frustrations with father

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“I just can’t believe it”

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Art calls Vladek in reference to Anja’s diaries

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“murderer” because he “destroyed” diaries

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Art hesitation love quote

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“Yes… I -um- love you too.”

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Art feel sorry quote

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‘“feel sorry for [Vladek]”’

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Art driven crazy by Vladek quote

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when he has to ‘“spend any time with him, then he [Vladek] drives [Art] crazy.”’

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Make sense of relationship/Auschwitz quote

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“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”

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Choose parents go to oven quote

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‘“think about which of [his] parents [he’d] let the Nazis take to the oven” choose to save mother

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Art on Richieu quotes (2)

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‘“sibling rivalry”’, ’“ideal kid”’

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Arguments father urgency quote

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‘“Somehow my arguments with my father have lost a little of their urgency”’

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Be fair but show anger quote

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‘“tried to be fair and still show the anger [he] felt”’

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Art arguing with Father childhood

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Art remarks that he mainly remembers ‘“arguing”’ with his father and ‘“being told that [he] couldn’t do anything as well as [Vladek] could”’

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Art frustrations with Vladek 2

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‘Please Pop. The tape’s on. Let’s continue’ and ‘ENOUGH! Tell me about Auschwitz!

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Why Art wants Mala to take Vladek back

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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”’

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Art is ashamed to go to shops with Vladek

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“ashamed”

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Vladek is (racist)

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“racist”

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Nothing compared to Auschwitz quote

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“No matter what I accomplish it doesn’t seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz”

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Art felt compete with Vladek

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“compete with him”

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Quote about mother’s suicide effect on Vladek

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“mothers suicide… taken [its] toll” on Vladek

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Quote on parent’s friends survivors

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“she was [Mala] a survivor too, like most of my parents’ friends”

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Anja described as being

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“nervous”

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Quote about saving self present

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“I must fight to save myself”

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Quote about suffering in reference to eye

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“you see how I have to suffer” but this extends to his experiences of the Holocaust

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Vladek happen again quote

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“just in case” about bunker

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No more family everyone for self quote

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“it wasn’t anymore families. It was everybody to take care for himself

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Want to die Anja quote (3)

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“let me die too”, “the whole family is gone”, “i don’t want to live

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Die easy struggle survive quote

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“to die it’s easy but you have to struggle for life”

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Mala Vladek like no one quote

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“all our friends went through the camps. No one is like him.”

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Going to Auschwitz quote

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“here we will not come out anymore”

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Put from mind rebuild memories quote

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‘“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”’

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Eye witness quote

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“eye witness”

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Some ways didn’t survive quote

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“but in some ways he didn’t survive”

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All left photos quote

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“all what is left, it’s the photos”

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Quote on Mala not getting along

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“They didn’t get along”

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Dreams of America quote

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“dreamed of going to America”

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Mala crazy quote money

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“Mala makes me crazy. Only she talks about money”

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Mala on Vladek attached to things

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“he’s more attached to things than people”

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Mala money quote

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“She screamed I want the money the money the money”

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Mala prison

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“I feel like I’m in prison”

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Vladek frugality quote

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“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

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Hitler crumb frugality quote

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“ever since Hitler I don’t like to throw out even a crumb”

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