Maus and Anne's Frank Diary

February 25th, 2017

Hi,
I just finished reading a book called Maus, and I saw that it had some similarities and differences with the entries of Anne's Frank Diary. Today, I will compare these two in their main aspects.

-The general similarity is that the main idea or events of both stories are related to the same period of time, the Holocaust: Vladek narrates to his son, Artie, about his life during the Holocaust and Anne Frank tells her life during that period of time as well.
-Talking about the plot of the stories, in both of them, their main character had to hide and was "chased" by the Nazis. They both hid in bunkers or safe places to survive.
-Also, both of the stories express how bad the situation was in that time: Vladek tells that they had to live with a very little amount of food and Anne Frank says that they had to be very moderated in the use of resources and in consuming food due to how difficult was to acquire those.
-Also, both of the main characters were sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz in which none of them died.
-The last important similarity I found is that both of them include literary devices. Maus is an allegory itself, in which animals represent characters and the relations between them, and Anne Frank used metaphors and other literary devices to represent better the situation in which she lived and the way she felt.

Those are the main similarities between these two stories talking about plot, setting and characters. Still there are some others but they are not so noticeable or important.