I think that Maus and Night should be read together. The reason is because both show two different sides to the story of how it was in the Haulocost. In Night it shows it as the Nazi's being a dillusion and that those rumors are not in fact true until you get to the camps and find out that the reality was actually worse then those rumors. In Maus it shows how the Nazi's slowly took apart the Jewish society and how they took away all of their rights.
In Night you read about Moshe how he had helped Elie learn more about the Jewish faith until disapperaing. When he came back and started telling people about what the Nazi's have been doing to Jews, people seiously didn't beleive him becaues it sounded so terrible that they couldn't grasp anyone being that evil. One person even said "He's just trying to make us pity him." Of course, it turns out that Moshe was wrong, what he said wasn't even half as bad as what actually happened. Moshe told how a girl took three days to die and how a father begged to be killed before his sons. That is not nearly as bad as digging your own grave to be burned in alive with a bunch of other people. Personally, I think that being burned to death is the worst way to go so for me that must have been absolutly terrible and knowing well too that you were going to be burned once you finished digging. Night we need to read because it brings us first hand into the horrors of the Haulocost.
Maus doesn't exactly go into detail about how peopled died a terrible death. Maus just states that they were shot or poisoned. It also showes how the Nazi's made it hard for the Jews to resist and brings us into light at the time of their accention into power and how they took more and more power away from the Jews. Slowly you see how Vladek can't do as much. Can't buy milk, curfew, food rationing, loss of property. Eventually he runs into a street where Nazi's are killing/beating innocent Jewish people who have followed all of their laws. Even if they had papers they were being beaten. The book also showed us how even if you were following all of the new laws that you were still at a huge risk of being transported to a concentration camp or just being flat out killed. The last thing that Maus showes us is how much will and wit and luck that you needed to survive through the Haulocost.
So we need to read both Maus and Night because they show 2 very important parts to the Haulocost. Night shows us the horrors and Maus shows us what happened when the Nazi's first came to power and how you needed luck and wit to survive as they grew in power.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Restrepo and Fallen Angels
1. The first guy to die in both the movie and the book greatly impacted how some of their comrades felt
2. Seeing the actual fear of the people makes Fallen Angels more real too
3. With Restrepo being real, it makes you see small real connections to Fallen Angels
4. A lot of what happened in Restrepo also happened in Fallen Angels like them calling in bombing runs
5. Johnson acted similar to that one guy in Restrepo when a close friend of theirs died. They were both kind of in disbelief
6. Everyone in movie and in book towards end wanted to just go home
7. Everyone was always afraid of the dark because you never know where your enemies were
8. Everyone was fighting disorganized armies like the Taliban or the Viet Cong
9. Both in the movie and the book the Americans tried to get the locals to support them instead of the Taliban or the Viet Cong
10. In both the movie and the book, the enemy would sometimes do suicide bombings like the little boy with the mine or the Taliban with the bombs strapped to them
What Restrepo and Fallen Angels has showed me about war is that war is the greatest and worst thing to ever happen. It's the worst thing to ever happen for obvious reasons; death, injury, dismemberment, loss, destruction. But amazingly, what both the movie and the book has shown me is what good war can also do. War brings people close, it makes people realistic and makes them question their way of living to make sure that people aren't believing in some random crap but in something that feels real. War also will show us who our real friends are and who are really the people who are just using us for whatever it is that they want.
2. Seeing the actual fear of the people makes Fallen Angels more real too
3. With Restrepo being real, it makes you see small real connections to Fallen Angels
4. A lot of what happened in Restrepo also happened in Fallen Angels like them calling in bombing runs
5. Johnson acted similar to that one guy in Restrepo when a close friend of theirs died. They were both kind of in disbelief
6. Everyone in movie and in book towards end wanted to just go home
7. Everyone was always afraid of the dark because you never know where your enemies were
8. Everyone was fighting disorganized armies like the Taliban or the Viet Cong
9. Both in the movie and the book the Americans tried to get the locals to support them instead of the Taliban or the Viet Cong
10. In both the movie and the book, the enemy would sometimes do suicide bombings like the little boy with the mine or the Taliban with the bombs strapped to them
What Restrepo and Fallen Angels has showed me about war is that war is the greatest and worst thing to ever happen. It's the worst thing to ever happen for obvious reasons; death, injury, dismemberment, loss, destruction. But amazingly, what both the movie and the book has shown me is what good war can also do. War brings people close, it makes people realistic and makes them question their way of living to make sure that people aren't believing in some random crap but in something that feels real. War also will show us who our real friends are and who are really the people who are just using us for whatever it is that they want.
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