Maus

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camps began to fill; yet Vladek and Anja manage to survive using strategies, and blind luck, until they are caught and sent to Auschwitz. “We had to make for ourselves “bunkers,” places to hide” (Spiegelman, pg. 110). By hiding in these bunkers they are able to avoid the Germans. For instance Vladek tells Art about one of the bunkers they stayed in.
“In the kitchen was a coal cabinet maybe 4 foot wide, inside I made a hole to go down to the cellar. And there we made a brick wall filled high with coal. Behind this wall we could be a little safe” (110).
The description of this bunker shows one of the ways in which Vladek and Anja survive.
Throughout , Vladek’s story compares to Art’s attempt to come to terms with his father. Art’s father’s personality is formed in a world and through an experience so completely unlike his own. In order to survive, Vladek has become very opinionated, tight-fisted, and self-involved. Art and Vladek clash because of Vladek’s ...

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