I think it is beneficial to are learning if we read both amuse and night. I think we should read both because they both show different parts of the Holocaust and both show it in much different ways. However if only one of the books was to be read i think that it should be Night for one main reason, comics seem to make the death camps a happier feeling and makes them seem not as bad as they in fact were. while in Night with no comics the tradgities were more easily conveyed
In the very beginning of Night Moshe the beetle was very well liked in the city were eli lived. however after he came back and told the town of Gestapo and all the people who were murdered there he became an outcast and everyone thought he had gone mad. Someone even said about Moshe "He's just trying to make us pity him." Moshe had ended up being right about the germans and people wished they would have left the small town and fled to somewhere safe. I Believe that if only one book is to be read it should be Night because it better teaches us about the terrible things that happened in germany than Maus did. Also Night has an amazing quote showing just how much the camps changed people and close the survivors were to the brink of death"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me."

Since Maus was a comic book it didn't show as well how terrible the Holocaust was because comics can not show the terrible things that happened, the bodies in crematoriums, hundreds of people packed into a single train car fighting for a scrap of bread, or people who were hung hanging still half alive. However night did. I think the reason Maus couldn't is because it made people into animals which i think makes people not believe the things actually happened in the severity that they did. This quote from Maus did however leave a lasting impression on me to how horrible the camps were"We knew the stories- that they will gas us and throw us in the ovens. This was 1944… we knew the stories. And here we were.” This quote shows that although amuse did show the holocaust in quite the same way night did, it still did a pretty effective job of doing so thats why i recamend both books.One thing that both of these books showed us is that no matter who you were before the death camp, that doesn't matter anymore everyone has almost the same odds of getting killed, no matter your will to live or anything else, you will probably die a terrible death in the death camps.

Also, Both Maus and Night were similar in many ways. They were both similar because they were similar because they were both about the holocaust but they were also similar in much different ways as well. In Night and Maus Both Vladek and Eli lost someone who they were very closed to during the book. In Night Eli looses his father, who was the reason Eli tried to survive, and in Maus Vladek looses Anja. Both of these deaths were similar in that they were both caused by the holocaust. Anja, Vladeks first wife in Maus committed suicide because of the holocaust, and in Night Eli's father died of illness because of the brutal conditions he and many others faced.