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.