The young man is very matter-of-fact about his brother's death, almost sarcastic one could say, because he despises being called away from his life and opportunities at school. ... Likewise, one would assume that the man's son would be expected to become a farmer in his own adulthood. ... At one point in the poem, the father finds a nest of tiny mice and shows them to his son, "my father stopped at one point/to show me an overturned furrow/the plowshare had unearthed/the burrow nest of a mouse." This image of the mice represents a sense of new life and hope for his son. ... This poem...

• Word Count: 2322
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When shown the lyric "Sent me off to a foreign land, to go kill the yellow man," they were asked who they thought the "yellow man" was. ... Responses from even the most intelligent of the group included "a man who fell in yellow paint," or "a man wearing a yellow mask." Many college students, when asked who the yellow man was, responded with "A yellow man is any kind of communist." ... An example of this would be a project conducted at the University of Ankara determined that loud music causes homosexuality in mice and deafness in pigs. ...

• Word Count: 1767
• Approx Pages: 7

There might even be mice in that filthy thing. ... In addition, when Rose was searching for a job a man that owned a shop told her, "There's a boatload of you greenhorns landing every day, and you think you're going to make a fortune in America. ... The fact that she was only in America with her sister was also very dangerous because two girls in the streets of New York with no help from a man was never a good thing. Uncle Patrick had once said that letting Rose and her family live in America without his help would make them fair game for every con man in New York. ...

• Word Count: 2291
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. ... When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School