Question 2 • Common Core ELA 11 - ELA3011 IC
The cats-and-mice imagery presents the Nazis as predators and the Jews as their prey, highlighting the persecution and power imbalance between them. This supports the view that Spiegelman depicts the Jews as innocent victims and the Nazis as cunning aggressors. Choice D concerns Jews turning on one another, which is not what the animal pairing itself primarily reveals.
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