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Hi there!

As I mentioned before, during this time you are asked to read the following book. It is a comic based on the WW2 and the Jewish experience. Right now what you have to do is just read it and answer the following in your notebooks:

1. Are they (the characters) iconic (could be anyone) or particular (could only be Vladek)

2. Why do you think Spiegelman drew the characters this way?

3. Hitler reduced Jews to vermin (alimañas). Is Speigelman doing the same thing? Why?

4. What adjectives would you choose to describe Spiegelman's work?

5. Where do you think the artwork is more detailed? Where is the roughest? Is there something about those moments in the story that calls  for a particular way of drawing?

6. What stereotypes does the author use? Why did he choose them?

7. How does Spiegelman´s images supllant or circumvent words? Why?

8. How many different things are the pictures trying to tell?

9. In page 12, what does the number signify?

10. What is your opinion on the topic of the book?

You can start reading and the answers to these questions will be evaluated in class as homework and participation on Wednesday, 27th April, as we will be discussing the Holocaust.