Vladek’s Money: Money Helped Vladek Survive the Germans during the Holocaust

During the Holocaust wealth and ingenuity can determine the destiny of a person. In the Holocaust, money played an important role for the Jews to survive in the Holocaust. When the Germans attacked the slums, Vladek and his family were hiding. Vladek paid to help him and his family to make a bunker. In addition, Vladek will pay other people to stay at their house after escaping from the slums. Without these fuels, Vladek and his family were discovered by Germans and could be taken to concentration camps. Money is of great use to Jews.

These words were made by Voradex Peegerman at the end of Art Spiegelman's "Mother: The Story of Survivors". After Vladek met with his wife Anja, they said that. During and after the Holocaust, the majority of Vladek's stories developed around him and his wife Anja's wish. Splagelman showed the importance of the relationship between Anja and Vladek. Because Vladek said verbally he wanted to be with Anja in the whole book, then escaped from prison, and Auschwitz returned to her again. However, Spiegelman is not only using iterative words to emphasize the relationship between Vladek and Anja. In order to visually emphasize the relationship between Anja and Vladek and the importance of Holocaust's severity, Art Spiegelman uses a common silent movie theme. It combines the iris effect with the dramatic visual effect and silence.

It is important to talk about Vladek's biography. Vladek was born in Poland in 1906 and died of congestive heart failure in 1982. Vladec married the Holocaust survivor twice. The reason for the first time with the mother of Anja-Art, and the reason for the second remarriage with Mala is not explained in the novel, but this can be regarded as a problematic relationship. Vladek is a very stubborn person. He is a very intelligent person, we can see in his mouse how he uses his wisdom to benefit from others in some circumstances. Under his control you can see how this obsession becomes obsessive at a later stage. He was very sick and used a lot of medicine. Obviously, Vladek meets the initial features of modern heroes given by Norman: "He only pursues survival."

Obviously, Vladek is not Maus' s ordinary hero. Vladek's behavior - as we have explained in detail - is easily misunderstood and shows that people are desperately surviving in war, but also to survive and to keep his family united Even if fighting person Vladek has many features of modern hero, we can call him anti-hero. I do not say Vladek is one of these types, but both. Art Spiegelman showed a stubborn and uneasy character at Vladek and did not try to make a perfect hero among his fathers, but he showed Vladek to show Vladek. Vladek Spiegelman survived the Second World War, his personality may help live in an era that he can not express in this word, but his inner struggle is always with him.