so in this week week of english 914 we were suppose to finally finish "Maus" all the way through. through out this whole book Vladek and everyone else in the book were set with decsisions that would set a story in totally different directions. many of the desiscions that i'm talking about are like killed or be killed, to run or to stay or even to the heavy decsions of trust. this is what the story of maus was built upon.
through out the whole story vladek, anja and im pretty sure the rest of the jewish people had the desiscion of to trust peolpe or to not to. during this time of war and the holocaust many people had to really trust people but you couldnt trust people as far as you can throw them, you cant even trust your own friends or family members.one desiscion of trust that first comes to mind is the time when vladek runs into this one guy that has been folowing him inside a town and starts talking to him in yiddish and tells him to check out the black market. this could possibly be trap to wrangle up the jewish people, but if i was in his place i'd probally do the same thing as him because at this time none of the jewish people or any of the holocaust victims knew of what the nazi has had planned. another descion that comes to mind is the desiscion of rather anja and vladek should give up richieu to a polish governess or to just keep them. as we all should know that when this first oppertunity came up they passed on it but they eventuall gave him up. perssonally in my own opinion i would not give up richeiu because no matter what i believe my son would be safer with me than anyone else but if you are going to give up your son just do it the first chance you get because you have to do it like a band aid, quick as as possible. finally one big descion of trust is when vladek and his family and also some of his friends were given the oppurtunity to leave and escape rthe country but during this time people knew of the camps, but should they take the risk of trusting the smugglers are should they not trust them and find anotherway? as we all know by now that trust these smugglers is a bad thing because they end up double crossing vladek and his group, but i wouldnt have done this from the beginning if i were in vladeks shoes because they had good staying with mrs. motonowa so why just throw it away?
with the last desisions they led into alot of tie ins into my next choice of decisions which is rather in some of vladek and anja's decisions of rather they should stay in fear or risk the chance of being caught to get out of poland. through out this book they always are set out with a choice of leaving or staying like the last example that i had in the begining of where they risk the chance oof leaving the country by the means of smugglers. and like i said before i would still not risk leaving the country because i do not trust those smugglers and everything was good at mrs. motonowa's so why mess it up. another decision of stability is in chapter five of book one, in the last part when every thing looks like they are in the clear, but yet some of vladek's group decides to go out of hiding and to bribe a nazi guard to let them go free in which he decides "ok" but vladek wants no doing of this. so in the conclusion of thisis that we come to find out the guard shoots vladek's friends. in this part i would have to agree with vldek and stay because thier is like no way you can trust a nazi, especially if you were jewish.oh and another desicion that 0just came up is the time when vladek was already placed in aushalwitz but they believe they are going to be free because the war was coming closer and closer to the camps so him and a small group decide to stay in the camp during the round ups and to just hide out till the alli soldiers come near. so they get civillian clothes and enough food to last so everything is set but they decide to leave because they heard of a rumor that the germans were going to burn the camp which they did not. so back to the question what would i do? i would actually stay because ifigure that if i go with the nazis i was going to die anyways so my as well risk my freedom with this rumor as it comes , because doing everything to get ready for this escape is just a total waste then.
finally the this last desiscion is the biggest one and probally one of the hardest deciscions is the one of killing. with a book abouth the holocaust this is a major desision because this was the holocaust and it wasnt just the nazis that were killing, but it was also the jewish people killing eachother. in one moment in the book when vladek and anja plus thier group were hiding in the attic they happen to come upon a fellow jewish man who was "looting" and spotted them. the group eventually pulls up the guy to question him, within the group they debated about rather they should kill him because if they let him go chances are he will tell a gustapo about them, or can they trust him to go on his way? we find out that vladek lets the guy go but gets turned in like the rest of the group thought. personally if i were in this desision i wouldve tied the guy up and kept him hidden until i was ble to find another place to hide. another desision of life or death i would say is the nazis, i believe the nazi didnt have to kill but their life probally depended on it, because the nazi are a twisted group. one nazi that i believe that was sort of nice was the one that vladek would say hi to in the aushwalitz, until he left for a while then he got really insecure. i believe that they probally told this guy some thing because as you remember that in the beginning of the war vladek was a soilder but didnt want to shoot but was told to so he shot in the air. but this brings my point that the nazis didnt have to kill that they couldve just been like vladek and shot in the air instead of killing.
