Vladeks Faith

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Vladek’s Fate

In the story Mouse many people are very interesting because of the fact they want to see how Vladek survived the Holocaust. Vladek has many things happen to him during this period, in which he has to use his strength, will, and fate to get himself through it, but one played a major role in his survival.
The story starts off with Vladeks troubles in his love life with Mala, in which
He struggles through the basic relationship problems most people have had. After the problems were solved and Vladek made his decisions, he was taken away to the holocaust where it all started. When things happen to you, you must think of your own ways to get through them. Especially in situations like this one where there was nothing you could do to stop it; fate just makes it happen.
When they took him away and separated him from his family, he was all on his own, he had to take whatever came at him. Vladek was more prepared than the average prisoner. Vladek was fairly fluent in four different languages, which made it easy for him to talk to other guards and people to negotiate deals for him to help survive. Hard work also played a major role for Vladek throughout the story. Vladek made out a little better than others by doing extra work for food, like when he cleaned his shirt to get food for himself so he didn’t starve to death. Fate also comes into major play when it helps him survive typhus during his imprisonment. During his time at Auschwitz, Anja was in Auschwitz Birkenau, in which he could not contact her so he made it a goal to contact with her through Manicie, which kept his will to survive even stronger. Him knowing Anja was still alive made it more worthwhile for him to stay alive. He showed this will when he went to extremes and cut his hand and made it infected just so he could get out of informary for three days, where he knew he probably would’ve died.
Vladek was a very intelligent man always o...