Maus/Night blog

Night and Maus are two book about the Halocaust they both show in depth the troubles the Jews went through when they were placed in these camps. People who like comic books that are dark Maus is the book for you but, if you enjoy reading your typical word based book filled with tension Night is your book. Both books are very similar in the general idea but the authors had different approaches on how to get their point out.

Both of these books continuosly talk about how the Germans forced them to run and if fell behind they were to be killed. Also both books bring up the jews problem of lack of food, the Germans would give them a thin soup with some bread for each meal. Furthermore theses stories both have times were the Germans make selections of who gets to live and who dies. Once these problems that the jews are facing soak in for a long period of time the people began to loose hope of getting out of these camps alive. These books discuss the same issues because the things they talk about have actually occurred the way they present it.

I suggest having the students next year read only Night because The comics were hard to get a grip on who was talking at what time. Also Night gave me a more solid grasp on the thoughts of a jew in the Halocaust where Maus was more of a story about what happend and not so much of how people were feeling like in Night. And I personally prefer more thoughtful book like Night.

Retrepo/ Fallen Angles comparrison.

One of the characters in restrepo is yelling "get some!" while he is shooting the Iraqi's this really made me realize Perry's emotion when he unloaded 2 clips into a congs face. (his anger made their killing more personal.

Next The soldiers were exhausted from shooting and then digging and digging more and then more shooting. This really magnifies how Perry in Fallen Angles talks about how their is hours of bordrem and seconds of combat and how that could really get enoying from a soldiers point of view.

Furthermore Restrepo really showed how the soldiers believe that this is the place the are going to die which is very dramatic it shows it to a greater extent then the soldiers talking about it in Fallen Angles because you can also read their body language.

The part in Restrepo where Peble talks about how he couldn't tell his mom what was really going in the war because he didn't want to make her worried. This really shows the extreme emotions these soldiers go through Perry is dealing with the same problem as Peble and I could only imagine just about every other soldier has the same problem because it would be tough to tell your family you think your going to die.

Watching the soldier cry in Restrepo after his buddy died it really helped me to realize the agony that Perry went through after Jenkins died.

In Restrepo when the three soldiers were dancing to music it really showed me the special bond that Perry was talking about in Fallen Angles.

In Restrepo a soldier was talking about how he watched his buddy bleed out and die this really brings the part where Brew blead out in the chopper a lot more significant.

Seeing People In restrepo name the base after Doc. Restrepo really shows how connected the soldiers get to each other just like in Fallen Angles how the whole squad would be so sad if Perry Die.

In Restrepo the soldiers were all emotional when they would see their pictures from home this really shows me the emotional hard ships the soldiers go through when seeing family thats not really their.

Lastly, in Restrepo the homes they make sound better then the ones in Fallen angles but you can see how the quality is still very poor and It looked like it would be a stressful home to live in along with being shot at everyday.

Watching Restrepo and reading Fallen Angles really changed my perspective on war. Before them I really didn't think about how terrifying it would be to live in a war setting. Like in Fallen Angles when Perry describes war as hours of being bored and seconds of being shot at. This lifestyle would be gruesome being shot at day after day would wear a man down. In Restrepo those soldiers wouldn't go a day without being shot at. Also in Restrepo and Fallen Angles all the characters were constantly wondering if this was the place they were going to die because it easily could have been. Seeing these people go through the experiences in war really made my opinion on war negative having to see how it terrorizes the soldiers who fight through it.