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Quotes From Maus 2

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How Maus II portrays humanity’s poor treatment of one another

Imagine being with your loving family in your cozy home, living your normal life, day by day. You close your eyes and the next thing you know, you're in an unknown, scary place. You don’t know where your beloved family is. Barbed wire surrounds the areas, unlike your traditional fence back at home. Everyone and everything you once had is lost, and soon you’ll go with them. You crowd into the small “shower” room with all the other people who are just like you, as your dictators prepare you to be sent to the skies in a cloud of thick black smoke. Maus II, written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, encapsulates this feeling very well by telling his father's story about how he survived …show more content…

The first quote will discuss the death marches. Once the Germans found out the Allies were getting close, they ordered death marches to kill off as many of the remaining Jews as they could. They forced the Jews to march to another camp farther within Germany. “All night I heard shooting. He who got tired, who can’t walk so fast, they shot. The more we walked, the more I heard shooting” (Spiegelman 82). This quote displays the theme because it is extremely inhumane to murder someone for being so malnourished and physically incapable, that they can’t walk a long distance. Especially if you're the reason that they are so weak and malnourished, which is the exact situation the Nazis were in, they were responsible for the condition of the prisoners. This next quote will talk about how strict they were at the camp. During Vladek’s time at Auschwitz, they would have roll calls to gather the prisoners together. They were very strict about things, and if you were slightly wrong, you were taken away. “On one appel he didn’t stand so straight and a guard dragged him away, I heard he pushed him down and jumped hard on his neck… or they sent him to the gas, I don't remember, but they finished him and he never anymore complained” (Spiegelman 50). This quote …show more content…

The first quote will talk about when they first entered the camp, realizing how badly taken care of everything was. “All around was a smell so terrible, I can’t explain… sweetish… so like rubber burning. And fat” (Spiegelman 27). This quote shows just how badly the Nazis took care of the camp, as the smell indicated that the camp had obviously not been cleaned. This is very unsanitary and inhumane to the prisoners who had to live with all the filth of the camp. The next quote describes the sleeping arrangements. Sleeping in the camp was terrible. The barracks were too small to fit everyone, so they had to uncomfortably squeeze into the rows of beds, and some couldn’t even sleep on the beds because of how packed it was. “It was room hardly to move. Only to go down to the toilet was 15 minutes walking on the unlucky ones sleeping on the floor. And coming back I couldn’t find again where is my bed” (Spiegelman 30). This quote addresses the fact that the living conditions in the camp were terrible. They were forced into a small area with not enough beds to fit everyone, causing some people to sleep on the floor, which is very

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If we were to rely solely on Nazi regime documents to understand this event, we would have a limited and biased perspective on what happened. We would know that the march took place and that many prisoners died, but we would not have a clear understanding of the suffering and inhumanity that the prisoners endured. Survivor accounts provide us with a much more complete picture of what happened and how horrible and inhumane they were treating these people not only in the camps but on their way to the death camps. In Bergen, an image is shown of the march happening, and the condition is described as “Those who moved too slowly or were too sick to continue were shot by guards at the side of the road. As can be seen in this photograph, taken clandestinely by Benno Gantner through the upstairs

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At this camp there are thousands of people. There are huge barracks that are filled with bunks. “ We walk hurriedly into the huge barrack. It is filled with Triple-decker bunks. On most decks lie five shriveled bodies with hungry, horror- stricken eyes.”

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In chapter 3, she describes how the men sleep. Using great detail, the reader can clearly see what it was like for the soldiers to sleep every night. In this quote, the author describes the sleeping conditions for the soldiers and the problems they faced with it every night, "Anyone who looked at their sallow skin could see that. The matter ended in one of them always sleeping on the floor, where he frequently caught cold" (Remarque 63). This quote also shows the thematic concept of sacrifice.

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One of the first things to take place in the concentration camp after the prisoners arrived was orders from a Nazis soldier. “The orders came: Strip! Hurry up! Hold on

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“When he struggled to fall asleep in the group house or when nightmares woke him up, he crawled out of his bunk and slept as he had in the camp- on a bare floor with a blanket.” (page

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The Nazi officers wanted the Jewish men to march like they were animals, and to not stop until they deemed fit. The Jewish were also marching in freezing weather, and had no food or drink while they were marching. They were expected to be like machines, and if they failed as machines, they were simply finished off by the SS. Elie described, “When the SS were tired, they were replaced. But no one replaced us.

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To survive in a concentration camp one must lose all sense self-respect and human pride. Exposure to continuous dehumanization unavoidably leads to one being brutalized, forcing one to resort to mental, physical, and social adaptation in order to hold on to one’s life and personality. It is this process that cases the line between right and wrong starts to blur. In the face of stark hopelessness, retaining one’s mental strength becomes overwhelming.

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