Question
After he escapes being buried up to his neck, this novel’s protagonist is caught by a group of villagers and thrown onto a catfish’s swim bladder. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1965 novel that uses the title animal to symbolize its protagonist, a dark-skinned boy trying to survive in World War II. This novel faced rampant plagiarism allegations, as did its author’s later novel Being There.
ANSWER: The Painted Bird (by Jerzy Kosiński)
[10e] A bird figurine symbolizes the boy Julien, who is murdered by Nazi soldiers, in R. J. Palacio’s White Bird, a work in this medium. Mice stand in for Jews in Nazi Germany in Maus, a work in this medium by Art Spiegelman.
ANSWER: graphic novel [accept comic book or comics]
[10m] The crow Schwartz flees antisemitism in this author’s story “The Jewbird.” The short fiction analog of the PEN/Faulkner Award is named for this author, whose best-known character is shot in the stomach by Harriet Bird.
ANSWER: Bernard Malamud (The character is Roy Hobbs from The Natural.)
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