Planning vs. Execution


In the notebook, there's a rough plan about the layout of a "bunker" to stay hidden from the soldiers. It distracted the soldiers with coal everywhere so they wouldn't suspect what was underneath. On the next page Spiegelman uses parallelism, but with images, and shows the side view of the bunker in action when the soldiers are present. The second image shows the Jews hiding in the designated bunker area and soldiers looking everywhere. One key detail is the dogs know exactly where they are hiding because of their sense of smell, and you can tell by the way they are looking into the coal bin and staring into the fake wall in the basement. This goes in line with when the description says "and they knew that Jews were laying here". It shows that they assumed that every house had Jews hiding in them, and their suspicion was proven to be true if they found any. And there's also dramatic irony in this panel, as the audience knows the soldiers are looking around, and that they know roughly which direction the Jews are hiding in, but the Jews themselves think they are safe and hiding. This is just one of many comparisons and examples of parallelism used in this book. Spiegelman uses these comparisons throughout the story to form a deeper meaning about the idea being presented. In this case, the meaning is the risk associated with hiding and how lucky you must've been to escape the Nazis. Other examples include when, Artie is lying on the floor, mimicking the way his father was lying on the ground during war, which showed that Artie wanted to experience what his father was experiencing to better understand. Spiegelman uses these different comparisons to create a better understanding of the time and the development of the story.


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  1. Arnav ChittiproluDecember 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM

    I liked how you utilize this idea of how comparisons and parallelisms are used in the book to convey a deeper meaning. I also liked how you mentioned how there is a risk associated with hiding, but I wished that you went more in depth with your meaning. Maybe you could've went more in depth with the drawing of the bunker and talked about how it shows the level of effort and risk the Jews are willing to take to keep themselves safe from the Nazis.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 3, 2023 at 7:30 PM

    I like how you mentioned parallelism and chose an interesting page. You mentioned how the dogs were staring at the fake wall, I remember this detail but unlike you I didn't realize it was dramatic irony, I just read it and moved on.

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