Maus-Night Blogging Assignment.

I liked Night better because I felt it showed what a Holocaust survivor actually went through, whereas I found Mous to be confusing and focused on details that didn't pertain to the story. For instance, when Maus jumps between war time and present time I didn't like it. I would rather it be like Night, which was written in chronological order rather than jumping around in time. I felt like details such as Vlakik  burning the diaries of his wife, Anja,  and Art getting really angry with him and calling him a murderer, was annoying. I wanted to focus on the time period during the war and read more about what he went through as a Holocaust survivor.

I would not suggest reading both the books together because they don't compliment each other. I feel Night  is preferable because it is a serious book that explains clearly and in a readable way the horrible experiences the author went through. Maus, on the other hand, does explain well what happens but the author injects information I don't care about. I am not interested in the day- to-day stuff that goes on with Vladik and his wife Mala, or the relationship between the father and the son. I just want to know the details of how they survived the camps. 

I believe future classes should read only Night because it really shows what they experinenced. It's a better and more acurate perspective. Although I like comic books and usually enjoy them, I felt the fact the author made the characters into cats and mice took away from the  story. The author seemed to feel he needed to change what the Holocaust really was just to get people to read it, and it took away from the reality and horror of the situation and made it seem like a joke.