When Artie suggests that Vladek has become so tight with money as a result of his experience in the camps, Mala snorts, "Fah! I went through the camps all our friends went through the camps. Nobody is like him!" Think back to the beginning of the book. What early evidence of Vladek's carefulness with money and resources might have led us to the same conclusion - that is, that he was stingy long before the camps?

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.