Maus vs Night

"As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust."(Bob Beauprez). Both Maus and Night are based on survivors of the Holocaust of the Second world War. Night is narrated by Elie Wiesel and he is telling his own story. Maus is narrated by Art Spiegelman telling his fathers story not his own.

In Maus Art´s dad has many money and is very intelligent doing shelters to hide so it takes a long time for Germans to recognize they are still in the ghetto and find them. In Night they just do whatever they are told to, they don´t have much money and don´t really know how to make hiding shelters. Basically Night is more general, more people lived what was said in Night than what was said in Maus. Not many people had the luck that Art´s dad and family had. Maus not only tells the story of his dad but he takes some places to show some of his story, which makes it weird and out of topic. Night instead is a bit more detailed in personal opinion it shows a bigger reality lived by many Jews, this makes it more interesting and more calling than Maus. Night simply portrays what happens to everyones feelings, what they felt in different situations and how they lost the want to keep on living. Maus still was good showing the way they would hide and how they their self´s out of the Holocaust with less personal wounds than those received by others. It also shows that both ghetto´s and concentration camps severely affected people sentimentally and mentally in many ways.Concentration camps of course where worse.

Finally in personal opinion Night is a more elaborate and detailed book. It shows a bigger reality and it´s enjoying to read. Maus is good but it doesn´t show the actual feelings of the characters and doesn´t make you feel as if you where there, it doesn´t make you feel that they are right that they where the victims of the war, it doesn´t make you feel the madness they felt for the war the want to make it stop. "Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust. "(Norma McCorvey)

The Holocaust was an unfair event many people lived where unfortunately many people died. People that had the right to live a happy life until the end. It´s sad that someone could create such suffering in so many people. It´s sad that someone could help him succeed "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." (Albert Einstein).