Blog on Night-Maus I/II

I think that Night is a little bit easier to take seriously because it is a true story. Maus 1 and 2 are easier to read and understand because they are mice and pigs and they pictures to help show what they are talking. I think that they both are very serious and good books to help you understand and learn about the holacaust, while they are still great reads. When Vladek and Anja go through their hard times as a couple that has nothing to do about the holacaust but it adds an element to the book that is very neccasarry while Night''s setting is entirely on the holacaust. I do not have the books so i could not cite the books but in the thse second chapter of Night, they are sent to a cam where as in Maus, the concentration camp scenes do not start until about the second alf of the book.  I think that you should read both because you will learn everything about the holacaust from two different points of view, Night s a true story so you know hat it is credible for facts and a real story and Maus is a very interesting book which is also a true story but there is a big part of the book whichis one's life whih helps add to the devastation and view of the time period and the position they were in in Poland. Also, it helps to read both of the books because the comparisons of the two helps you understand. If I had t choose a book I would pick the Maus books, by Art Speiglmen because it was much easier to understand with its picturesand its easier writing.

Restrepo Blog Assignment

1. Some scenes that bring the book, Fallen Angels, are in the beginning when they find out that they are going to the most dangerous valley in Afgahnistan. It is like the beginning of the book where everybody is scared. 2. Also, when they lose Restrepo in a firefight. That is like Jenkins dying first in the book.
3. The scene with The group bonding reminds me of Peewee and Perry becoming friends.
4. When they go to eat, that makes me thuink of: When doe sthe fallen angel's squad eat.
5. When they start swearing in fire fights, it reminds me of Peewee swearing in the book.
6. In the movie they talk about what they will do when they get home, Perry talks about Kenny's life and what he will do when he gets home to harlem.
7. The scene with the men teasing the other guys is not like the book, the book doesn;t have much comedy and not many jokes.
8. The scene with the men in a firefight is not like the book because the book has a lot of secualr fighting and not just shootoffs from their bases.
9. The scenes with the black men are not like the book because there was a racist in the book and there is not one in the movie  that we know of.
10. The scene with them losing there second man in a battle is like when they lose Brew later in the book.

I think that the book, Fallen Angels, and the movie, Restrepo, showed that the concept of war is a 95% negative exerience. The other 5% is meeting new pople, going to new places and the feeling of protecting your country and your peers. I would consider those things positive. Some exaples f this are that Perry in the book, canges ad becomes more confident and that will help him thogh out the rest of his life. Another example is that the menin Restrepo seem to connect t one another and they find interests in eachother and they enjoy that. An example of that i when they tease the lunch man tatmakes geat food. They tase him and hit him for fun and yuo can tell they ar enjoying themselves. The reasons that the war is so bad is that, close friends die, (Restrepo or Jenkins), you can get very badly injured like many soldiers in Korugan Valley and you are away from yor home and your family for a long period of time.