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Maus By Art Spiegelm Literary Analysis

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In the book Maus by Art Spiegelman, the theme of the book is when people are in a life or death situation, people depend on luck to survive. The protagonist in this book, Vladek Spiegelman, is a Jewish man who lives in the town of Sosnowiec, Poland, this is important to the theme because if they are caught by the Nazis they were sent to Auschwitz. For example the Nazis would round people up and send them to Auschwitz, this happens on page 80 when Vladek was walking by, “I had to pass near- and they were grabbing Jews, papers or no!”(80). This quote shows that even if you had all the papers/documentation you needed to stay and work for the Nazis if you were unlucky and in the wrong place at the wrong they would take you to Auschwitz. Also if
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