1. 

   stay_fan1
   March 14th, 2010 - 17:33

   Jews in concentration camps are portrayed as mice.
   Hmmm…… what COULD be the thesis of this book???
2. 

   Persiphone_Hellecat
   March 14th, 2010 - 17:57

   Well you could go one of two ways.

   1) You could discuss why the different animals were selected to represent different nationalities

   2) You could discuss survivor’s guilt in people who survived the death camps such as Auschwitz and how this book shows an example of someone who experiences such guilt.

   I would personally go with the second. There is a ton of material out there about survivor’s guilt and the holocaust. You can even contact the Holocause Museum in Tel Aviv or NYC. Both have wonderful websites.
   Pax – C.
3. 

   Ms. S
   March 14th, 2010 - 18:03

   The generation conflict – the father’s experience in the concentration camp shaped him, and that makes it impossible for him and his son to understand each other.
4. 

   Padraig
   March 14th, 2010 - 18:25

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus

   Maus:

   A Survivor’s Tale is a memoir presented as a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman. It recounts Spiegelman’s father’s struggle to survive the Holocaust as a Polish Jew and draws largely on his father’s recollections of events he personally experienced. The book also follows the author’s troubled relationship with his father and the way the effects of war reverberate through generations of a family. In 1992 it won a Pulitzer Prize Special Award. The New York Times described the selection of Maus for the honor: “The Pulitzer board members … found the cartoonist’s depiction of Nazi Germany hard to classify.”[1]

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   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/8866/webquests.htmlStudents

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