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* GreaterScopeVillain: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, of course. Despite what the Hitler cat logo implies, [[TheGhost Hitler, as well as his inner circle,]] are never seen in the story but their influence through the Nazis can be felt. In fact, the closest high-ranking Nazi official that Vladek ever encountered was [[MadDoctor Josef Mengele, aka the Angel of Death himself]].
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* GreaterScopeVillain: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, of course. Despite what the Hitler cat logo implies, [[TheGhost Hitler, as well as his inner circle,]] are never seen in the story but their influence through the Nazis can be felt. In fact, the closest high-ranking Nazi official that Vladek ever encountered was UsefulNotes/JosefMengele, [[MadDoctor Josef Mengele, aka the Angel of Death himself]].
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General clarification on work content; “Parshas Trumah” is not a holiday.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Vladek, the father of Art Spiegelman, was forced to work in a prisoner of war camp before World War II. While he was there he dreamed his dead grandfather told him he would be free on the Jewish holiday "parshas truma". As it turned out, months later, he was indeed allowed to leave the camp on that very day!
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Vladek, the father of Art Spiegelman, was forced to work in a prisoner of war camp before World War II. While he was there he dreamed his dead grandfather told him he would be free [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Torah_portion on the Jewish holiday "parshas truma".week of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terumah_(parashah) "Parshas Truma"]]. As it turned out, months later, he was indeed allowed to leave the camp on that very day!
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Francoise is disgusted when Vladek expresses naked racism towards a black man, and asks him how his attitudes make him any different from the Nazis who persecuted him. Disturbingly, Vladek doesn't seem offended at being compared to the Nazis at all. Instead, he gets huffy over the idea that bigotry against Jews and African-Americans is in any way comparable.
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* AllJewsAreCheapskates: Vladek is ''extremely'' frugal, which helped him survive the Holocaust. Art worries that in portraying his father honestly, he'll come across as an [[GreedyJew ugly stereotype]].
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* AllJewsAreCheapskates: Vladek is ''extremely'' frugal, which helped him survive the Holocaust. Art worries that in portraying his father honestly, he'll come across as an [[GreedyJew ugly stereotype]]. When Art and Mala [[DiscussedTrope discuss the trope]], she bitterly complains that she and all of their families went through the concentration camps too, but nobody who survived was or is so cheap.
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* CentralTheme:
** ''How the Past Impacts the Present''. Vladek and other survivors still feel the trauma of the Holocaust over thirty years later, and it continues to affect their daily lives; sadly, Anja was haunted by the traumas which contributed to her suicide. Even Art continues to feel the consequences of the Holocaust.
** ''The Nature and the Cost of Survival'': Surviving the Holocaust involved a lot of resourcefulness, quick-thinking, but most importantly ''Luck'' on Vladek's part. However, as discussed by Art and his therapist, there were plenty of innocent people who did have the former two traits but still perish because they weren't as lucky as other survivors. Not only that, even those who do survive still face the cost of losing their loved ones and the trauma of their ordeals.
** ''How the Past Impacts the Present''. Vladek and other survivors still feel the trauma of the Holocaust over thirty years later, and it continues to affect their daily lives; sadly, Anja was haunted by the traumas which contributed to her suicide. Even Art continues to feel the consequences of the Holocaust.
** ''The Nature and the Cost of Survival'': Surviving the Holocaust involved a lot of resourcefulness, quick-thinking, but most importantly ''Luck'' on Vladek's part. However, as discussed by Art and his therapist, there were plenty of innocent people who did have the former two traits but still perish because they weren't as lucky as other survivors. Not only that, even those who do survive still face the cost of losing their loved ones and the trauma of their ordeals.
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** Despite the horrors he endured born out of prejudice Vladek holds racist beliefs toward black people, much to Francoise's disgust. You can be oppressed and still go on to oppress others.
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** Despite the horrors he endured born out of prejudice prejudice, Vladek holds racist beliefs toward black people, much to Art and Francoise's disgust. You can be oppressed and still go on to oppress others.
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** The story also spits on the notion that MiseryBuildsCharacter, noting that surviving trauma does not necessarily make someone "stronger" or more moral; it just leaves them traumatized.
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* ThreatenAllToFindOne: After Anja is very nearly caught meeting with Vladek by one of the Kapos at Auschwitz-Birkenau, said Kapo forces her entire barrack to suffer beatings and overwork unless she steps forward. None of the other women rat her out, luckily, despite the brutality they are subsequently subjected to.
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** Art's therapist muses at one point that Vladek may have been gifted in many ways, but he didn't really survive the Holocaust because he was gifted--he survived because he was lucky. As much as Art wants to make the story of Vladek's survival feel like an admirable triumph, talking up Vladek for his survival is suggesting that failing to survive the Holocaust ''wasn't'' admirable--that the people who died in the Holocaust somehow just didn't try hard enough to avoid dying. In a way, lionizing survival is saying exactly what the Nazis believed, which is that only the people who were killed were people who didn't deserve to live. In truth, in an event like the Holocaust, whether or not a person would survive was essentially random: better people than Vladek were killed, and worse people were spared. There was no moral test or silver lining to it; it was just a horrible event.
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** Art's therapist muses at one point that Vladek may have been gifted in many ways, but he didn't really survive the Holocaust because he was gifted--he survived because he was lucky. As much as Art wants to make the story of Vladek's survival feel like an admirable triumph, talking up Vladek for his survival is suggesting that failing to survive the Holocaust ''wasn't'' admirable--that the people who died in the Holocaust somehow just didn't try hard enough to avoid dying. In a way, lionizing survival is saying exactly what the Nazis believed, which is that only the people who were they killed were people who didn't deserve to live. In truth, in an event like the Holocaust, whether or not a person would survive was essentially random: better people than Vladek were killed, and worse people were spared. There was no moral test or silver lining to it; it was just a horrible event.
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* HardTruthAesop: Despite the horrors he endured born out of prejudice Vladek holds racist beliefs toward black people, much to Francoise's disgust. You can be oppressed and still go on to oppress others.
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* HardTruthAesop: HardTruthAesop:
** Despite the horrors he endured born out of prejudice Vladek holds racist beliefs toward black people, much to Francoise's disgust. You can be oppressed and still go on to oppress others.
** Art's therapist muses at one point that Vladek may have been gifted in many ways, but he didn't really survive the Holocaust because he was gifted--he survived because he was lucky. As much as Art wants to make the story of Vladek's survival feel like an admirable triumph, talking up Vladek for his survival is suggesting that failing to survive the Holocaust ''wasn't'' admirable--that the people who died in the Holocaust somehow just didn't try hard enough to avoid dying. In a way, lionizing survival is saying exactly what the Nazis believed, which is that only the people who were killed were people who didn't deserve to live. In truth, in an event like the Holocaust, whether or not a person would survive was essentially random: better people than Vladek were killed, and worse people were spared. There was no moral test or silver lining to it; it was just a horrible event.
** Despite the horrors he endured born out of prejudice Vladek holds racist beliefs toward black people, much to Francoise's disgust. You can be oppressed and still go on to oppress others.
** Art's therapist muses at one point that Vladek may have been gifted in many ways, but he didn't really survive the Holocaust because he was gifted--he survived because he was lucky. As much as Art wants to make the story of Vladek's survival feel like an admirable triumph, talking up Vladek for his survival is suggesting that failing to survive the Holocaust ''wasn't'' admirable--that the people who died in the Holocaust somehow just didn't try hard enough to avoid dying. In a way, lionizing survival is saying exactly what the Nazis believed, which is that only the people who were killed were people who didn't deserve to live. In truth, in an event like the Holocaust, whether or not a person would survive was essentially random: better people than Vladek were killed, and worse people were spared. There was no moral test or silver lining to it; it was just a horrible event.
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* IgnoredAesop: Vladek, despite having been a survivor of horrible racial prejudice, holds some racist views himself. When Art relates the incident to his therapist, his therapist muses sadly that hardship doesn't cause people to grow. Vladek didn't survive the Holocaust because he learned a lesson, but by good fortune; plenty of better people than Vladek died, and plenty of worse people survived.
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* IgnoredAesop: Vladek, despite having been a survivor of horrible racial prejudice, holds some racist views himself. When Art relates the incident to his therapist, his therapist muses sadly that hardship doesn't cause people to grow. Vladek didn't survive the Holocaust because he learned a lesson, but by good fortune; plenty of better people than Vladek died, and plenty of worse people survived.
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* InconsistentSpelling:
** So is it Anja, Anna, or Anya? All three spellings are used at one point or another. (It was originally spelled Andzia, but Spiegelman decided a more phonetic spelling would be easier for readers to grasp.)
** Richieu's name in Polish was Rysio (a diminutive of Ryszard). Spiegelman says he had never seen the actual spelling until well after beginning work on ''Maus'' and was just guessing.
** So is it Anja, Anna, or Anya? All three spellings are used at one point or another. (It was originally spelled Andzia, but Spiegelman decided a more phonetic spelling would be easier for readers to grasp.)
** Richieu's name in Polish was Rysio (a diminutive of Ryszard). Spiegelman says he had never seen the actual spelling until well after beginning work on ''Maus'' and was just guessing.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** So is it Anja, Anna, or Anya? All three spellings are used at one point or another. (It was originally spelled Andzia, but Spiegelman decided a more phonetic spelling would be easier for readers to grasp.)
** Richieu's name in Polish was Rysio (a diminutive of Ryszard). Spiegelman says he had never seen the actual spelling until well after beginning work on ''Maus'' and was just guessing.
** So is it Anja, Anna, or Anya? All three spellings are used at one point or another. (It was originally spelled Andzia, but Spiegelman decided a more phonetic spelling would be easier for readers to grasp.)
** Richieu's name in Polish was Rysio (a diminutive of Ryszard). Spiegelman says he had never seen the actual spelling until well after beginning work on ''Maus'' and was just guessing.
