MAUS

1. A specific theme or idea or question that propelled you through the text.
I had two questions that I focused on well reading the text. One, What is this story going to teach me about the Holocaust that I don't already know? Two, Why did the author chose animals in the place of people?

2. A specific Panel or set of panels that support this theme/idea/question
Well one of the things I didn't know about the Holocaust was how the richer Jewish people could use their influence and money to delay going to a internment camp. I also learned that many people used their family connections to stay as free as they could be for as long as they could get. This is shown on page 92 when they went to a registration for their passports to work or not. They went to a table where their cousin was working and he stamped their passports with a good stamp, as sown in the last panel on the page.
I found that Spiegelman's idea of using animals instead of people was a cleaver one. This made it much easier to determine race and religion of the characters by just looking at them. On page 66 you can see that Vladek puts on a pig mask to seem to be a Pole. in the second pannel on the page. This shows perhaps how easy it was for the Jewish people to do th is. You can clearly see the string and the differece between his skin and the mask.