Night & Maus Blog

Night and Maus are very similar but different they both tell the story about the Holocaust but they do it in their own manners. Night is actual people being portrayed and its very depressing, but Maus is a comic about the Holocaust. I think it is necessary to read both books because they boath provide a different interpretation on the holocost. Example from each book When they are first starting to be controlled by the Nazi’s in Maus they get moved into the Stara Salvenick quarter and they don’t have much emotion about it and in Night when they receive their Jewish star Eli’s father says "A yellow star? O well what of it? It won’t kill us". I think this shows that in both books they could see there fate coming but did nothing to stop it.

Restrepo Blog Assignment

Pre-writing
At first when the bombs hit the hill it showed how much you could feel it. This probably scared Perry at first. The second time when the men flew in it put me in Perry's shoes and showed what he saw. It was intense because you saw all the dust fly in the air. The machine gunner remined me of Brew with the 50. it was sad when Restrepo died it is like when Brew dies because everyone liked him and was everyone friend. I taught when the man who was telling to tell his family about the war is similar to when Perry is trying to tell Kenny about the war. The hootch's in the book and the movie were made more real and you could really see how cramped their quarters were. It was funny in the book when they were talking about how they were sick of the food there and how it was such a treat when they got to eat fresh cow. This is like in Fallen Angels when they would get mad at the chef when they had the same meal everyday. When the soldiers in Restrepo would hang out in their hooches like in Fallen Angels when they would play games and talk in the barracks. In the movie when they are talking to the villagers about where the Taliban were, it was like when Perry and the others are going through the villages and bringing food. In both I noticed that how its tough it was for people to sleep because of the horrible things that they have seen war.

Writing
War is a horrible thing for anyone to go through. It is because of the tramatic exprences that you have to go through. These include loosing a friend, having to kill somebody And most importantly almost dying. In both books all of these were obvious and it showed how hard and emotional war really was. One thing that stunned me was that how much the news leaves out about the war. The movie and the the book showed that brilliantly.