MAUS+-+Vladek's+Version+of+English

Rewrite each sentence in standard English. Each student in your group should do 2 statements, and each statement should be labeled with the "translator's" initials.

1. p. 35, “And she was so laughing and so happy, so happy, that she approached each time and kissed me, so

happy she was.”

2. p. 59, “Always they did everything very systematic.”

3. p. 67, “But I haven’t with whom else to talk!”

4. p. 80, “He survived me my life that time.”

5. p. 84, “It was easier to hide than clothings. I kept things hidden in the child’s stroller, and I made a few zlotys.

6. p. 86, “We didn’t yet know of Auschwitz – of the ovens – but we were anyway afraid.”

7. p. 91, “One from three they kept at the stadium… maybe 10,000 people – and with them, my father.”

8. p. 110, “The Germans started to grab out anybody if he had papers or no.”

9. p. 111, “We survived there a few actions. But others, what didn’t have such a good place like what I made,

they kept being taken away.”

10. p. 112, “All the time we were hungry. We just didn’t have what to eat.”

11. p. 122, “It was also around this time that we heard first the bad news from Zawiercie – about Tosha and

Richieu.”

12. p. 134, “If I say only one word to her, she makes right away an argument.”

13. p. 135, “It’s chilly… Take also here a blanket.”

14. p. 222, “To die, it’s easy.”