Maus and Night are two accounts of different survivors of the Holocaust where there are many similarities and differences to their stories. I feel that Night was a much more serious representation of how Jews were treated in the Holocaust. The times in Maus where they are in the present and Artie and Vladic are talking/arguing seem to take away from the seriousness of the matter. Night was also much more descriptive but as a Cartoon Maus normally did a good job with the pictures to represent what is going on. Also what Vladic is talking about sometimes does not make grammatical sense. Elie seemed to have it much worse that Vladic for most of the story. Vladic at the beginning was very rich and even when he was brought to the camps he had better jobs. Such as the when he had the tin maker and shoe repair jobs there was better conditions. He also got to teach a Kapo English where he was lucky enough to get good food and clothes. Elie never got any of these chances. But it seems they had still had a few things in common. Both of them still had a living family member to live for, if not for this they might of not made it out alive. Many times anja was encouraged by her husband to keep fighting to stay alive, and Elie helped to keep his father from giving up and letting go of life. In The concentration camps those who had nothing to live for did not last long. Elies fathers friend Mier died because he lost his faith and his son to the concentration camps. He didnt have anything to live for. I think that these books were helpful to understand what realy happened durring the Holocaust. Each book gives a first hand acccount of a surviver and how he survived the ordeal. Night especialy sparked my intrest, it just seemed to show such detail and the emotions felt very real to me.
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