Maus And Night: A Literary Analysis

Religion affects everyone’s life, even if you’re not faithful. For many Americans, they go to their religious centers or at home to praise to God. Their religious faith encourages them to do acts of kindness, or encourages horrendous acts. There’s no doubt that major events in someone’s life will make them question their faith. For many victims and survivors of the Holocaust, the question of faith was a dilemma. Two Jewish Holocaust survivors named Vladek Spiegelman and Elie Wiesel told their stories of living in the infamous death camp called, Auschwitz, in Maus and Night. The Maus series was graphic novel written by Vladek’s son, Art Spiegelman. In the novel, Vladek was a young man who started a family and textile business. It went on to explain how Vladek survived the grueling months in Auschwitz. Night was a memoir of Eliezer Wiesel experience during the Holocaust. …show more content…
Vladek entered Auschwitz with nothing of value. In the systematic factory of Auschwitz, he got an ID number tattooed on his wrist. His ID number added up to the Hebrew Number of Life:18. This gave Vladek hope and optimism which pushed him to go farther. The French girl gave up her religion so she could pass as an Aryan so she could have a chance to survive. Elie lost faith in God when the injustice that happened during the Holocaust was not stopped. His lost of faith stopped him from fasting, and that could have saved his life. Life today is still affected by religion in many ways. People’s faith is shaken by the death of a loved one. Killings happens in the most civilized of countries in the name of religion. Society created the argument of whether science and religion can’t live together. It’s projected that humanity will move into a society of secularism and atheism. For years to come, society will debate on religion’s place in modern