Maus Night Blogging Assignment

There were several similarities and differences between Maus and Night. A difference between them was in Night it really showed how a father and son must put aside differences and help each other out in times of crisis. Because in Maus, it was really just one man fighting for his own survival. A similarity between it was that death is everywhere and there's no way to avoid it. All three of the main characters had to learn that they couldn't avoid it and millions of people were going to die eventually, so you might as well get used to it early. Another difference between them was in Night, I think Elie Wiesel portrayed the Nazi's more gruesome and mean than what Maus did for the Nazi's. A similarity between the two books is that they both showed extreme measures that people would go through to avoid being caught by the German's. In Maus II, on page 110, Shivek and Vladek go and hide in the top of the barn, also on page 80, Vladek and some people were going to hide in an attic to avoid being transferred but the German's were going to bomb the camp, so they had to leave. In Night, Elie and his dad don't go and hide from the Nazi's, but people that they know where trying to escape Poland to avoid being captured and sent to a work camp.

I think that we should read both books in class. Because they both tell different ways of survival during WWII and the Nazi invasion of Europe. They are both truly great survival stories, and I think that Art Spiegelman and Elie Wiesel wrote these books very well.

Fallen Angels Pre Write

1. The language barrior in Restrepo showed how hard it would be to communicate with the local people of the country. Because if the interpreter messed up one word, then the entire meaning of what was said could be messed up.
2. When Restrepo got shot it kind of reminded me of when Perry got shot. Because in both cases everyone was extremely sad and just seemed like that just drained them emotionally.
3. In Restrepo they got hit with a road side bomb out of nowhere so that kind of shows the part when in Fallen Angels they get attacked at their base how surprising it can be.
4. When they pumped up the music and started singing together and dancing, they didn't have that in Fallen Angels but it just showed how they did anything to pass time and they were all close to each other.
5. Watching two of the marines friendly fighting, for example, in the barracks reminded me of the scene in Fallen Angels where Monaco pulled out a fake grenade and pretended to try to kill everyone; in both cases they show their manliness for jokes.
6. When the soldiers in Restrepo would hang out in their hooches like in Fallen Angels when they would play games and talk in the barracks.
7. When they guys went into the rock slide operation they where scared a lot, In the book they had to do patrols and other things they where also scared shitless at some points.
8. When we saw they way the soldiers lived, it was similar to the way the soldiers lived in Vietnam.
9. Creating outpost Restrepo was a cool moment and reminded me of when Perry would kind of make his own outpost when on patrol when he would dig himself into the ground and then put sandbags up around him
10. They both are able to talk to their families through letters and phones, but they both usually act cool to their families and tell them everything is fine when it isn't.