Please answer one of the following questions for Chapter 2 in its entirety. (That means answer all portions of the question.) Make sure you begin your "comment" with the question number so we know which question you are answering. This is a required comment. Always remember to employ your literary vocabulary, AND TO USE COMPLETE SENTENCES, CORRECT SPELLING, AND PROPER PUNCTUATION! This is an English class and an English assignment.
NO MORE THAN 5 PEOPLE MAY ANSWER ANY OF THE ANSWERS BELOW. After 5 have answered one question, it is "closed," and you must comment on another question. That way, as a class, we know that all questions will be answered.
1.) Comment on the art and text that precede the chapter, "The Honeymoon." What sensory images does the art conjure? What do you think is the significance of this picture and chapter title?
2.) Comment on the type of animal that arrests the seamstress. How do you deduce what race/religion they are supposed to represent?
3.) Why do you think Spiegelman included the incident about his father spilling his pills in the "present?" What is the father's reaction? Artie's reaction? What does it signify?
4.) Why do you think the author chose to include incidents about Anja's pill usage (Ch. 1) and her stay at the sanitorium (Ch. 2)? What might it signify for the story?
5.) In Chapter 2, the author introduces the Nazis. How did he choose to do this? Why do you think this was a good or poor choice on Spiegelman's part?
6.) Write on any one specific image (frame) that may have intrigued you or caught your attention in Chapter 2. Give details on why that frame intrigued you. Please include the page/text from the frame so we know to which picture you are referring.
2.) Comment on the type of animal that arrests the seamstress. How do you deduce what race/religion they are supposed to represent?
ReplyDeleteTwo pigs arrest the seamstress. I know they are not Jewish because pigs are not kosher and Jews don't eat them. I believe they are non-Jewish Polish people because frogs are French and cats are German. Also they live in Poland and Vladek and Anja have a maid whom is a pig and they stated is Polish on page 37 frame 1
4. I believe the details about Anja being "skinny and nervous" and how she was sent to a sanitarium after she gave birth might gives hints to why Anja killed herself, since in the first few pages of the book, we learn Anja committed suicide.
ReplyDelete4.) I believe that the point of including these events in the novel because it foreshadows how she turns out. It is known that she took the pills because she was nervous. It is also known that she went to the sanitorium because she was depressed. This is foreshadowing how she died. In the story, she seems to be a signal of how the war and everything can affect someone. Her becoming so depressed really expressed this.
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ReplyDeleteThe author chose to introduce the Nazis by having Vladek's train pass by a Nazi flag hanging in a nearby town. I believe this was a good choice on Spiegelman's part because it helped foreshadow the Nazis and darken the mood without being abrupt.
6.) chapter 2 page 33 frame 3
ReplyDeleteFrame 3 on page 33 caught my attention because it is the first time in the story that wee are seeing Jews being publicly humiliated. The mouse in the picture is holding a sign that says " I am a filthy Jew." While he/she holds this sign the Nazis stand there just looking at him in a kind of pleased way. The part of this frame that mostly caught my attention is how the nazi symbol is in the back the whole time. To me it seems like it is just hovering over the Jew and creating a more dreadful situation. This frame is very small yet has alot going on in it thats why it intrested me.
5. Spiegelman introduced the Nazis by having Vladek see a Nazi flag outside of the train he was riding to the Sanitarium. Other Jews in the train car recalled their experiences with the Nazis and we get to hear some of their short stories. I think this was a good way to introduce the Nazis because it shows how people just thought the Nazis were gangsters and that the problems were limited to Germany.
ReplyDelete6) Frame 4, page 20.
ReplyDeleteThis frame intrigued me because it is so much similar to the chapter cover photo. It shows so much emotion and makes you see how desperate Lucia is for his love. It just looks very tragic! I am in love with romantic trageides.
4. By Art including Anja's pill usage and stressing her unstable state of mind, he is slowly providing justification for why she committed suicide while in the concentration camp. This action on both Art and Anja's part may signify one of the many outcomes for the jewish prisoners.
ReplyDelete4.) Why do you think the author chose to include incidents about Anja's pill usage (Ch. 1) and her stay at the sanitorium (Ch. 2)? What might it signify for the story?
ReplyDeleteI think the author chose to include incidents about Anja's pill usage (ch.1)because this foreshadows that she has a disability and this could have lead to her being suicidal. i also think he chose to tell about her staying in a sanitorium because it shows that she was dealing with some mental problems also which could have also lead to her suicide.
2. Comment on the type of animal that arrests the seamstress. How do you deduce what race/religion they are supposed to represent?
ReplyDeleteThe animal that arrested the Seamstress was a pig. I deduced from this that this is a non-jewish polish person. I came to this conclusion becuase pigs are animals that are considered pork. People of the Jewish faith do not eat pork so the cops that arrested the seamstress can not be Jewish. They are the police of Poland so they must be Polish. (Typicallly speaking not saying all police in one area are the race of that area)
4)At the beginning of the story, the author includes a story about Anja's pill usage because he wants to use this as foreshadowing. This helps determine that Anja is deppressed because she is weak and this is shown by the pill usage scene. This weakness shown in Anja can foreshadow to Anja's suicide.
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ReplyDelete2) The people who arrested the seamstress were pigs. From this I can deduce that the pigs would be polish because they were in poland at the time so the police of that area would be from that country.
ReplyDelete6.) Frame 1, Page 35.
ReplyDeleteThis frame intrigued me because this was the first time that they portrayed every other animals besides from the mice, cats, and the pigs on the picture of the dance cafe. The frame also wanted to show this to represent the different countries that each animal type is stating like the frog represents the Germans which also happened to be a popular term since German people eat frog legs.
5.Spiegelman first introduced Nazis through artwork. Vladek, Anja, and other passengers spot a Nazi flag hanging high in the center of a town on their way to the sanitorium. I think this was a good choice because it is a subtle way to introduce Nazis. Also, this was before the war, so the passengers did not know very much about them and for some this was the first time they saw the swastika. At this time, they didn't know the magnitude of the dangers they would soon be facing.
ReplyDelete6.) 32 frame 4.
ReplyDeleteThis picture stuck out to me the most. In this frame there is the Nazi sign, which is pure black and yet the surroundings are whte. This is sensory imagery and symbolism because the Nazi sign, which is black, can stand for the evilness, while on the other hand, the background can be pure, the white. The sign can also be a motif because on the next page, the flag is being used, also the picture on chapter two has the flag.
5.) I think Spiegelman did this for ironic purposes. The chapter is titled "The Honeymoon", which can represent happiness and love, but the chapter also starts with a picture of the swastika with represents one of the tragic events in world history. I think he think a good job doing this.
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ReplyDeleteThis frame caught my attention because it illustrates the astonishment and fear of the jews riding on the bus. They have never seen the Nazi flag before and in the frame for the first time in their lives and gaze at it blow in the wind as fear covers their bodies. They were all speechless and the frame gives me an idea that the jews are completely unaware about what horrific events that are going to occur will change all their lives forever.
5. Speigelman introduces the Nazis through second-hand accounts from Jews on the train to Czechoslovakia. He uses this because at the beginning of the war the Nazis' antisemitic actions seemed distant from the Jews in other parts of Europe. They thought that it couldn't happen to them and that these attacks would stay within Germany.
ReplyDeleteThe preceding artwork and text of "the honeymoon" showed the love story and romantic life of Vladek. I think that the title of chapter and the chapter picture signify that after Vladek and Anja's wedding, the honeymoon, something involving the Nazi's is going to happen. The picture for this chapter shows a Nazi sign and various people are looking up at it. I think the Nazi sign may have been a flag, which could signify a Nazi take over later on.
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Delete1. The artwork for chapter two shows the mice dressed up && staring at the Nazi's sign on the flag. This could mean that upon their return from the honeymoon , Hitler had marked his territory and we would hear about it in this chapter
ReplyDelete3. I think Spiegelman included the incident with his father and the pills because it shows how Vladek is after the war. It added more personality to the character, but I think it could also be foreshadowing. Something may happen regarding Vladek's health or pills.
ReplyDeleteVladek is very upset when his pills spill, but when Artie offers to re-count them later, Vladek refuses. He says Artie "doesn't know counting pills." This shows that Vladek is very independent and wants to keep his life and health in his control and won't let anyone interfere, even his son.
3. I think that he uses this to show how his reactions have slowed in his old age. Artie reacts wih almost disdain, and Vladek reacts as if it is nothing new.
ReplyDelete1. I think a very important thing about the picture for chapter two is that it has the nazi flag in it. Other than the cover this is the first time we see the nazi flag and it foreshadows that we'll probably see more of it and that German control is becoming more prominent.
ReplyDelete1. The picture preceding the chapter sends very mixed messeges. On one hand, it is called "The Honeymoon", which usually inmplies happiness and love, while the swastika almost always associsates with grief, death, and terror.
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