Night and Maus Blog assignment

Night and Maus are very similair but different they both tell the story about the Holocaust but they do it in their own ways and they are not on the same level of seriousness Night is actual people being portrayed and its very graphic and can put images into your head, but Maus is a comic about the Holocaust and even though it is a comic it is still very serious and sad. I do not think it is necesary to read both books i think you only need to read one or the other depending on the maturity of the class or the type of class. I would read night if you are looking for information and maus if you wanted a quick read.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 dont have much emotion about it and when they recieve their jewish star eli's father says "a yellow star? o well what of it it wont kill us". Night you could read their reactions and tell when they were scared and when they werent scared, but in maus there was either extreme, very plain or yelling at eachother.

Restrepo Blog

The scenes in Restrepo really actually helped me visualize fallen angels better. like when they pumped up the music and started singing together and dancing, they didnt have that in fallen angels but it just showed how they did anything to pass time and they were all close to eachother. Another scene was when one of them i forget who was playing the guitar. this showed how they all learned new skills and got very good at them because there wasnt much to do in the downtime. Also after seeing their base it was not very organized and they didnt take much time on planning the layout of the building. this helped me imagine what the hooch looked like from fallen angels. And when they gathered around in a big circle and talked and it was basically summing up what had happened and what they had to do. Helped see what they looked like in the hooch when they talked. Another was when they shot off the flares for Restrepo it helped show how much emotion was in them, like in fallen angels they would say the prayer right after they had died. Another thing was they captured the area and made Restrepo very fast and it showed how their hooches were made very fast and they were not of great quality. It also showed me when they were just sitting behind sandbags with huge machine guns just like when johnson would set-up a couple sand-bags then sit behind it and light up anything he saw. Another thing was when one of their best men died and it happened so fast, like in fallen angels when gearheart who was a great soldier got hit under the arm and died almost immediately. When you saw all the bombs go off all over the hills and the huge explosions, it showed what they had to go through in fallen angels how mortar strikes were going off all around them. And when they could almost constantly hear choppers or planes overhead and the constant rumbling, in fallen angels it helped me imagine how those choppers would have sounded.

 Both of these, fallen angels and the documentery both were eye opening for me, it showed you how emotional war was. when Restrepo died it really hit that team hard. and when brew died it really hit johnson hard and he wouldnt accept that he was dead. They both also showed that it was hard for them to deal with, in the documentary one of the guys even said it was hard for him to get over things and he didnt know how to. and for johnson he couldnt get over brew until they threw a birthday party for him. It showed how their living conditions were no where near what they are here for an average person.