A Comparison Of The Holocaust In The Book Of Maus And Night

The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II which was an brutal killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazi. With many survivors left after the Holocaust some was able to tell their stories such as Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman the authors of maus and night. Maus and Night are two books that are mainly told on what was happening during the Holocaust. With both authors having some experience about the Holocaust they provide the world with a better understanding on what was happening in the camps ,and the struggle of the Jews during this time period. Also each author has some similarities and differences about their experience during the Holocaust making the two books different stories about the holocaust with one book giving more information …show more content…
With both authors having experience their self about the Holocaust , and also having family members with experience about the Holocaust.. They are able to tell more than someone who did research on the Holocaust, and wrote a book about it. Someone with experience will be able to give you that full details of what was happened during the holocaust, but you may have many people that don’t believe the holocaust is real ,but by Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman, putting in their books of the things they went through during the holocaust it make people believe it . Which Elie Wiesel, added in his book “a young boy discoverd the kingdom of the night the ghetto the deportation. Also Art Spiegelman, added in his book “struggling for breath in overcrowded cattle cars, and dying torment’’. Making both books very similar to each …show more content…
Which leads to Elie Wiesel not having to need his father to write his book , because of him already having the experience. Having him being able to tell more than Art Spiegelman , which Elie Wiesel, say “alone - terribly alone in a world without god’’. Letting everyone know that it was so hard during the Holocaust he started to feel alone and lose faith in god even with his dad in there with him. For him to going through all that he had more to tell than Art Spiegelman , because for all we could know Art Spiegelman father could have not been giving him all the information he was wanting to put in his story. So all Art Spiegelman could do was go off the words his dad was telling him , but what made it seem suspicious that his father was not giving him the full information was he burned his wife diary of what she wrote on the Holocaust before Art Spiegelman could get it. On the other hand Elie Wiesel did not have to go off his father words to write his book, and get less information that he might wanted to put in his book. Instead Elie Wiesel already had all the information he needed so he was the only one who could a control whether or not to put all the information in his