More Thoughts on Maus….
Vladek was very concerned when he got back that his family was receiving no income. So he took it upon himself to go out and work. The issue at hand thought was that all business owned by Jews were now being run by Germans. And if you wanted to work you needed to have “working papers”. Vladek got his working papers through his father in law but they were illegal. It was a risky decision for Vladek to do this, because if the Germans caught onto it they could’ve killed him. He actually did come slow to being discovered while he was delivering sugar. But in times like these, his family was getting no food, so he needed to do this risky work in order to provide for his family. Regarding the grandparents, that was also a tough decision. If they at first handed them to the Germans’ they knew where they were going, the death camps. So they wanted to hide them because families back then stayed close together. It’s hard to loose someone that has been in your life for so many years. Luckily the Germans’ only took the grandparents and didn’t hurt anyone else in the family. Both scenarios were risky, but in times of genocide like this, there’s no clear decision because of all the emotions.