Muas, night blogg

Both these books are quite similar in the fact that they both tell stories about the holocaust and the world war II. One of the similarities that both of these books share is the main characters experience what happens to them in the holocaust in there own way. Like Elie in most of the book was kept in a concentration camp trying to survive and so was Vladek in Maus II during the younger years of his life. Although they were similar stories they were told from a different perspective, in Night it was actually happening while being told and Vladek was telling his story or experience of what happened during it to his son in the Maus books. Another similarity is during both of the books the Germans mock and make fun of the Jews. During Night They would laugh and taunt the Jews while they prayed, also they would beat up on them too. One of the Germans asked Vladek if the wound on his hand had healed then he stabbed it again to re-open the cut and make Vladek suffer in Maus II. One more connection of the books is that in Maus there were side stories of what went on in Vladeks story other than just the Holocaust and in Night the story was written strait through without many side stories. Like Before anything bad happened in the 1930s and 1940s vladek explained out his love life and who he married, but during Night it was all mainly about concentration camps and how they survived the Holocaust. I believe that other schools should read both books because it gives different perspectives of what happened to them during the holocaust and world war two. The nice thing is you get a illustrated version during the Maus books, but Night is more of a descriptive story about what happened to the characters. Students would be able to get through these books quick also because Night isnt a long read and the Maus books are all comics.

Restrepo blog

One thing that helped Restrepo bring Fallen Angels to life is the setting they were in, it was pretty similar other than the rice paddies in Veitnam. The firefights between the Americans and enemies also helped me visualize alot better of what the fighting was like. In Restrepo they showed the men's reactions to one of the friends death which really gave me a great example of how they would of reacted in Fallen Angels. When they went to villages to talk with the locals it helped bring out what talking to vietnamese in the book would have been like. When all of the soldiers had to go to rock avalanche to patrol it totally reminded me of all the night patrols Perry and the rest of there sqaud did. The sergeant dies in Fallen Angels and Restrepo died in the movie which were big losses to both of them, So the important death portrayed very similar of what happened in the book. The helicopters were used in Fallen Angels to fight which killed much of the enemies and the helicopters/planes bombed and fired at the enemy in Restrepo. The movie showed how no position in the valley was safe just like even at camp in Vietnam wasnt to safe. It never said how much or really when people smoked or did tabacco but Restrepo illustrated it well since you could see friends passing tins to each other. At the end they were all excited to go back home and get out of the valley like Perry and Peewee got to get out of Nam for there injuries.

What i learned about war from Fallen Angels and the movie Restrepo is that mainly not everyone will survive no matter how much someone thinks they will. I also learned many tearms, like who the Cong's are and what the hooch is. The book gave me a good descriptive story of what war is like while the movie gave me the illustrative version of the book, other than the settings of the two they seem to be very similar kind of stories. I'd recomend to read first before watching, since the text gives you so many more details.