Maus/Night Comparison

Maus and Night go twell together because they both tell stories of the Holocaust. Night, was more realistic and was told from someone's point of view that was in the Holocaust, making this my favorite of the books. Night was my favorite because, it was more realistic and had more impact on me. Maus, on the other hand, seemed to make a less serious version of what really happened in the Holocaust. I think it is clever that the author created the nazis as cats and the jews as mice, cause everyone knows that these two don't get allong. The idea behind Maus was meant to give a younger reader a good example of the holocaust, but Night did a better job of telling us what happened in the Holocaust. If someone asked me what book they I suggest it would be Night, because of its greater depth on what happened in the Holocaust.

Restrepo

Prewriting:
In Fallen Angels it is said that thousands of dollars were sometimes used to kill one of the enemies that they cant even see, in the movie Restrepo you see how half the time it seems that the men are just shooting blindly at the forest.  Soldiers from both Restrepo and Fallen Angels are excited to get into the war.  In both the movie and they book they had similar goals such as making good relations with the natives.  Both groups in the book and the movie go on patrols and get ambushed by the enemy.  Most of the men in both stories have the common fear of dying and tend to lose sleep over it.  In both the soldiers seem to find entertainment around their base camp.  One of the characters from both seem to die but the men understand that thy must continue to do their job.  Both groups of men are very excited to find that they get to go home.  During the battles they both describe the type of fear/excitement they get during a firefight.  In Restrepo, a flare is shot off over the place where the soldier died and in Fallen Angels they make a cake on Brew's birthday, and they both mourn their deaths.


Writing:
Watching Restrepo and reading Fallen Angels really gave me a new perspective on war.  By reading and watching these stories I have learned that the movies on war are very inaccurate.  Half the time you are trying to kill someone you can not see them and you do not have unlimited ammunition.  Also in the book and movie they share what their feelings towards the events that are happening, unlike the movies where there is just constant fighting.  So one of the most important things I puled from these stories is that there is a lot less heroism then there is in the movies.  There is not one man in either the book or film that kills off a whole my or saves a town, most of the time the men just shoot into the woods hoping to kill the enemy before they get killed.