Comprehension Questions And Vocabulary

caracter Yanek is a young 10 year old boy. Yanek Gruener was a jew, and Hitler was telling Germans that jews were the reason about all the problems that were going on at that time. Yanek Gruener was having a happy life until the Natiz came and invaded Germany. Yanek and all the other jews were banned from school, stores, libraries, and more. Yanek had to stop going to school because he wasn't allowed.

Yenek was a former holocaust survivor. When he was 10 years old he was kidnapped by the Nazis and was forthwith put into his first concentration camp where he spent one year of his life learning how to survive

His father is taken away for, what his family said, business. Then, with a surprisingly tender smile, he patted my shoulder and went away with the gendarmes"(11). Sarkis Vendarian, Vahan’s father, doesn’t seem to be worried for his life. He doesn’t overreact which allows his family to have false hope for him. This doesn’t last long. Vahan’s family gets word that he and a large group of men were killed on a march. But, the bad news doesn’t end here. A few days later, Vahan wakes up and finds out that his uncle is gone. “Two days after I was taken out of school, Uncle Mumpreh was gone. "To prison," Sisak told me."They came for him earlier this morning." "Why?" "They claim he is a revolutionary," my brother said"(15). Vahan was very close to his uncle. The two were very much alike. Vahan’s uncle was the silly jokester of the family and the two of them were the black sheep of the family. Well, now Vahan is the only outcast. After Uncle Mumpreh was taken away, a couple weeks later, Turkish gendarmes come to Vahan’s house. This gendarmes allow their family to stay in the house, but then they take both of Vahan’s oldest brothers to the garden and the gendarmes shoot them. Now, Vahan and his brother Sisak are the men of the family and they have to help protect all of the women. Vahan realizes that his decisions

Vladek shows heroism in life threatening situations when everyone else has given up. After receiving a letter from the Polish government, Vladek leaves his family to fight the war against Nazi, Germany. After facing the terrible conditions of a P.O.W. camp and the back-breaking work of the “volunteer labor assignments” (Spiegelman 54) Vladek returns home to his family only to find their situation in shambles. In Vladek’s efforts to bring in money when there is none to be made; he constantly risks his life so the Zylberberg’s can live a modest life, compared to the luxury they were used to. When the Jewish families are forced to move to Stara Sosnowiec Vladek

Stephen’s father begins to notice all the time his son and Leka spend together talking, laughing, and enjoying each other’s company and so do the other pulp-cutters. They make ridiculous assumptions as to why Stephen and Leka spend so much time together, and they judge Leka, saying he is odd and has weird intentions just because he s from another country. Stephen s father orders his son to quit spending time with and talking to Leka because of the embarrassment it is causing him. At this moment Stephen feels scared and pressured by his father to obey because he is his father after all, and in the end he is convinced to distance himself from Leka. Although Stephen makes this decision that appears to show he‘s reverted to his old ways and beliefs of his father, we are given hope as we see Stephen still cares enough to wake Leka from a nightmare. Stephen grew up surrounded by men who believed they needed to be strong and fearless to be the best men they could be. He adopted these beliefs as his own because he didn’t know any better. When Leka began sharing his stories, Stephen was exposed to

7. How does Vladek arrange to be reunited with his wife and son? What visual device does Spiegelman use to show him disguising himself as a Polish Gentile?

On the day of Yaneks’ Bar Mitzvah, the day that he was going to enter adulthood, he and his family were hiding in a pigeon coop on the roof of their appartment afraid of being caught by the Nazi’s.

While Vladek is telling his story about his experience in the Holocaust there can also be a great emotional effect on him as well. By Vladek telling his story it can also make his mental state worse than it already is by not recognizing what really happened during the Holocaust. If Vladek were to actually realize what happened and how he got through it is mental health could actually start to recover from most of the trauma it has gained. It is true that Vladek could possibly heal himself and hurt himself at the same time by sharing his stories from the Holocaust. It is also very true that by Vladek being traumatized it can cause him to be very depressed and denial and

Imagine you were forced to leave your home, family, and friends, then you have to undergo terrible traveling, working in unbearable conditions, and never having a full meal to eat. Well for Yanek and Elie that was every day of their life after they were taken for the Holocaust. They both survived by keeping their faith and taking advantage of any good opportunities. Yanek and Elie have many similarities and some differences when it comes to their experience in the Holocaust such as the family they had there with them, the death marches, and how the cattle cars are for the both of them.

The rumors were the people taken were killed or went to the camps but you didn’t know for sure until you were on the truck. Yanek was soon taken away to a concentration camp shortly after his parents were trucked away. After Yanek was trucked away he stopped at multiple concentration camps where people were killed daily. He could see in plain sight around 30 dead. There were additional rumors even more people were made into soap for the Nazis. At approximately age 14, Yanek finished his first concentration camp. He was then moved to Auschwitz, the most well known camp. Yanek met lots of people at the camp despite his uncle telling him not talk to anyone because it could get you killed, Yanek made friends but soon after he made friends Yanek would watch them be killed. After he had been in concentration camps for years and he could hear guns and bombs in the distance and growing closer every day. When he was at his tenth camp, Yanek was barely alive. He wondered if he could survive additional years in the Nazi camps. He questioned whether he might be shot or turned into soap for

“The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. Departures were to take place street by street, starting the next day” (Wiesel 13). Days later after they felt safe again, they would be taken to the camps, to be worked to death. They were dehumanized from that

As Eliezer is liberated from the concentration camp by American troops, he is left a scarred orphan. All of his immediate family is dead, and he is in an unfamiliar country, miles away from his home. Despite what has

The Spiegelman family and their comrades were trying to be compassionate and help someone that they identified with, someone who, through a shared desperate situation (or so they thought) they tried to befriend. Unfortunately, he was so quick to turn his back on the people who had treated him so kindly.

Zheyk scurried through the establishment; his limbs scraping the sides of the miniature hallways. It didn't help that humans kept blocking the way, staring at him with wide eyes instead of making space for their unexpected guest. It was understandable though, the visitor was by no means normal. An attendant led him through an enormous set of double doors, where a human was waiting in a dim room. He was relieved to be away from the prying eyes of those pitiful humans, though he knew that what was to come would pry far more than any mere human could.

It would be a challenge not to wonder what causes him to be so nasty, audacious, and insensitive toward everyone, including himself. The transient beauty of Bukowski’s prose is hidden within the elusive and terse nature of his writing. Although it might be hard to appreciate at first glance, it gradually becomes more transparent as the reader becomes increasingly familiar with the two books. With this, the reader gains the ability to enter into the mindset of the protagonist and embark on a series of self-reflections regarding what type of person he/she might have become if he/she experienced similar neglect. Charles Bukowski wrote in a scramble, with a nothing-to-lose truthfulness that became the expedient in reliving the downtrodden generation in which Chinaski is raised. Along with some opinions that were expressed in the critical article in Time Magazine, Bukowski’s main character has deemed himself as none other than what he is in life: a “low life loser.” It does not require an immense level of effort to describe him as such, but attempting to explain a man of his particular genre is unquestionably abstruse. He is ornery and taciturn; when he does speak, it is with no apologies. He lives his life botching any remedial job for which he is lucky enough to get hired, and has no desire to escape the sphere he lives in as a “loser.” The reader must first ask why Henry