Comparing Maus and Night

“For god’s sake, where is god”-“where he is? This is where hanging here from this gallows…” that was the truth, austerely (plainly) handed down to every Jew and prisoner who was detained and imprisoned in Auschwitz, whether in Night or Maus the notion was the same. The Holocaust was a traumatic event that most people can’t even wrap their minds around. Libraries are filled with books about the Holocaust because people are both fascinated and horrified to learn the details of what survivors went through. Maus by Art Spiegleman and Night by Ellie Wiesel are two highly praised Holocaust books that illustrate the horrors of the Holocaust. The two books despite their differences have many themes and events that are similar a powerful hanging scene depicted by both of them shows a horror few have seen, However because Night is a literary novel and Maus is a graphic novel both have different measures of telling an event, and so Night has more power to convey the horrors of a hanging.
Maus a graphic novel written by Art Spiegleman depicts a scene of a hanging on page 85 with 4 mice hanging in a panel and a German soldier on the bottom, the four Jews were hanged for getting caught dealing in the black-market without a coupon to do so. The Nazi then made an example of them by having them hanged for a full week. The hanging scene is and powerful, it is simple and portrays a hanging of 4 mice, people whom Vladek the main character knows, As this is being read, the combination of the humanistic appearance with the symbolism actually enrages one, It was upsetting as how senseless the German actions were. Perhaps the best example of the masking effect occurs in the final three frames on page 83. The middle frame is a hanging scene, depicting four mice hanging from nooses. While this in itself is disturbing, the subsequent frames humanize this even more. We see nothing but four pairs of legs dangling, as everything above the knee is cut off by the gutter. These legs are very