Night Maus And Artie's Relationship

Night and Maus represent Elie’s and Vladek’s (Artie’s father)historical perspectives through the time of the Holocaust. Night focuses heavily on memories from the concentration camps, especially Auschwitz… one of the most notorious concentration camp. Maus focuses on life throughout the Holocaust outside of the concentration camps and measures taken to avoid being caught as a Jewish. Elie’s relation with his father is similar to Artie’s relation with his father during the beginning of both stories; both relations were distant. Though, both relations have differences. Elie and his father grew closer after suffering trauma through the concentration camps. Artie and Vladek never exactly grew closer; their relation grew more shaky. Elie’s relation

Throughout the horrific experiences in the concentration camp, Elie and his father had to learn to look out for each other even when it was everybody for themselves. Towards the end of Night, Elie, his father, and other prisoners were on a “death” march to another camp to avoid being liberated by the Russians. The march was extremley gruesome, mostly because everyone was in such poor physical shape. When they had been resting at a small town, Elie’s fatehr kept making sure Eile didn’ fall asleep… falling asleep would risk dying from exhaustion. After arriving at the new camp, Elie’s father fell ill with dysentary. Elie would constanly try to take care of him, sharing some of his own portions and running to his side everytime he was called for. But, Artie and his father’s relationship was extremely different. Towards the end of the book, we see an old comic drawn by Artie showing his emotions after his mother’s death… showing his perspective of what hapepned after her suicide. Artie was displayed as a “prisioner”, showing how he was trapped in a state of pain and suffering from ignoring his mother. Even in the comic, we see Artie’s father constantly moaning and crying but never actually conforitng his son, pratcicially expecting his son to comfort him with him expressing in the comic, “We went home… my father had completely fallen apart!... I was expected to comfort him!” (92) Even throughout the book they slowly grew closer, at the end, Artie grew extremely upset with his father. Artie’s father had burned Artie’s mothers diaries, all of her memories. Artie would call his father a murderer for killling all remaning traces and anything left of his mother. To Artie, his mothers voice was forever silences, all her experiences in trauma erased from history. Afterall, to Artie, the diaries were her legacy. Furthermore, we see the difference in the relations; Elie and