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