Maus vs. NIght

Personally I enjoyed reading the book Night much more than Maus.  This is because I liked how Night flowed in chronological order where as Maus kept jumping between present times and flash backs.  This was confusing to me as well as the fact that it was a comic book.  I enjoyed how Night really gave you a vivid picture in your mind as what the holocaust looked like and actually gave me some very disturbing images.  Also it explains in Night what the places were like and exactly what went on there in Night whereas in Maus it was not very descriptive and talked to much about present times.  I would have rather just learned specifically about the Holocaust which is what Night did. 

Night also was a true story from a person who actually experienced it first hand.  I would have never known from reading just Maus that the Holocaust what that brutal and terrible because it was not first hand and also not very descriptive in my mind.  Even though you might say its a comic book which has pictures, thus it would by descriptive, the pictures didn't really enhance my understanding of the whole time period.  Night was first hand and showed me how terrible the Holocaust actually was and what an actual survivor went through and how lucky he was to get through it! 

Lastly, I believe that in the future you should just have your students read the book Night.  This is because when I got home after school I had the urge to read Night and sometimes did not even want to stop reading it.  This is because it had vivid clear pictures.  When I got home I did not look forward to reading Maus and had no drive to read it.  I did not really interest me very much because it really just was not very interesting.  Maybe if I had read Maus first it would have been different, but I dont think so.  The author in Night was expressing his anger that he felt towards the Nazis by teaching others about what occurred in the camps.  Maus is just a childrens book in my mind that would help little kids figure out what the Holocaust was about and not in depth at all.