A question from yesterday's discussion that resonated with me was "Is death the only way to find true peace?" This question stuck with me because in MAUS, so many terrible events occur, so many that it seems there can be no peace for the Jews - dying may be the only way to stop their suffering during World War II and the Holocaust. In MAUS, Vladek and his family/friends are bombarded with unfair punishments, which force them into hiding. Already their peace is disturbed here. As the story progresses, they are put to work in ghettos and treated with disgust from the Nazi Germans, which disrupts their peace even more. Finally, when Vladek and is family are transported to the concentration camps (Auschwitz), their peace is long gone. Every moment the Jews are awake or asleep in the camps, they are tortured, malnourished, and forced to work. Quite literally, death was the only way to find true peace in these dark times.
I might narrow this question into a research topic by researching "How did the Jews suffer during World War II?" I might look for information on the internet and by using memoirs of other Holocaust survivors like Vladek Spiegelman.
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