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Chapter 1: The Sheik

Chapter 1: The Sheik. Art visits his dad Vladek after a 2 year absence Vladek is married to Mala now Anja committed suicide Art persuades Vladek to tell his story Vladek was a ladies man Vladek had an affair with Lucia Vladek marries Anja. Chapter 2: The Honeymoon.

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Chapter 1: The Sheik

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  1. Chapter 1: The Sheik • Art visits his dad Vladek after a 2 year absence • Vladek is married to Mala now • Anja committed suicide • Art persuades Vladek to tell his story • Vladek was a ladies man • Vladek had an affair with Lucia • Vladek marries Anja

  2. Chapter 2: The Honeymoon • Art continues to visit Vladek • Vladek takes a lot of pills for his failing health • Vladek begins with his story again • Vladek and Anja have a prospering factory • Anja gives birth to Richieu and becomes depressed • She goes to a sanitarium and recovers • Vladek is drafted into the Polish army

  3. Chapter 3: Prisoner of War • Vladek had little training in the army • Kills a German soldier and gets captured • Sent to a POW camp in Germany, where the Jews are treated worse than the Poles • Vladek has a dream about becoming free in the future • Poland gives in to Germany • Vladek assimilates with the Poles • Vladek is reunited with his family

  4. Chapter 4: The Noose Tightens • Life is harder, but still comfortable (black market) • German roundups, beatings, and riots occur • Anja does not want to send Richieu away • Jews are moved to a ghetto • Jews caught selling without coupons = hanging • Jews have to report to the stadium to be sorted (old, weak, and too many children are sent to Auschwitz to be killed) • Vladek’s family is sent to Auschwitz • Mala talks about Vladek being dominant • Art looks for Anja’s diaries

  5. Chapter 5: Mouse Holes • Vladek wants Art to help him with repairs • Art knows that Vladek has seen the comic • Moved to another ghetto • Richieu is moved to a safer place • Richieu is poisoned in fear of being sent to Auschwitz • Zyleberbergs and Vladek hideout in a bunker • Found and Anja’s parents are sent to Auschwitz • Vladek gets a job with a scheming uncle • Hide behind shoes and escape as Poles

  6. Chapter 5: Prisoner on the Hell Planet • Published years ago • Art was in a mental institution • Discusses mother’s suicide • Characters are people, not animals • Art is pictured as a prisoner, showing that he feels guilty over his mother’s suicide

  7. Chapter 6: Mouse Trap • Mala feels like she is in prison • Art sympathizes with her and compares Vladek to a miserable Jew • Mala and Vladek approve the comic because it will draw in other readers • Hideout in a Polish woman’s barn, until she is searched • Hideout at different places • Pay smugglers to smuggle them into Hungary • Smugglers take their money and report them • Put in prison and taken to Auschwitz • Ends—Vladek tells Art that he burned Anja’s diaries and Art calls him a murderer

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