War Stories

There are a lot of differences between Speigelman and O’Brien’s story telling.  This is because both authors choose an unalike style to present their writing.   Spiegelman writes a story about Jewish struggles during the holocaust in the form of a comic strip book.  Because of this, he is uses more of a direct dialect between his characters throughout the book.  He does not have to describe the situation and background as much as O’Brien because the pictures tell those details.  Another difference is that Speigelman uses animals such as pigs, cats and mice to depict each race in his story. One similarity is both writers have characters that actually tell the story through their own point of view.  In Maus, it is the father, and in O’Brien’s stories, it is usually one of the soldiers. I prefer O'Brien's as an author because of the way he is able to describe his stories so meticulously.