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In chapter 3 of Maus, Vladek is drawn wearing a mask at one point. What mask is he drawn wearing? Why is he portrayed like this?

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Answer: He´s wearing a pig mask to hide the fact that he´s a mouse (Jew)

Step-by-step explanation:

Maus is a graphic novel about the Holocaust that depicts Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs.

Vladek boards a train to Sosnowiec, despite not having the required paperwork. He wears a pig mask to pretend he´s ethnically Polish so he can be more sympathetic to the Polish conductor and get his help sneaking over the border.

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