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.
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