Compare And Contrast Maus And Night

Maus and Night are two similar yet conflicting books that show you fear, tragedy, and depression from two different perspectives. With the comparing points of how both of the main characters are men, how they focus on the holocaust,how they both coped with the lost of loved ones, and the contrasting points of how they characters are portrayed, the battle for survival, and how the belief of God impacted these characters will show you how Night and Maus resemble and differ from one another. In Maus, the story is told from Vladek’s perspective and how Vladek was trying to keep his family safe while avoiding the concentration camps and death. While in the book Night ,we view the perspective from Elie’s eyes while he was trying to survive …show more content…
In Maus, Vladek loss his son, his in laws, but throughout that he still did everything he could to keep him and Anja safe. In Night, Elie lost, his father, mother, sister, and himself in the process.”I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears.” (Elie, 112) Elie lost all hope and nothing mattered to him anymore after the death of his father, that was all he had left. His name was the last thing his father said before he died, and Elie did not respond to him. But, these men still pushed forward throughout all the heartbreak and tragedy. Although these books resemble each other in many ways, they are also very …show more content…
With the comparing points of how both of the main characters are men, how they focus on the holocaust,how they both coped with the lost of loved ones, and the contrasting points of how they characters are portrayed, the battle for survival, and how the belief of God impacted these characters. These two devastating books are so similar yet