Slaughter house Maus

        The similarities of this book comparing with slaughter house five is mainly on the outline of the story, like O’Brian or any other war story writers, stories were told here and there, there is no clear date or time that align event that happened. However, while I was reading Maus, it gives me a more clear understanding of what is going on with each event even stories were not in order; also, the narratives are more sensitive, there are more elements of emotions towards what happened, such as while Valdek was talking about he abandon his girlfriend and got engaged with Anja, and the way he explain himself when he heard Anja wanted to cancel the engagement. Comparing that with Slaughter house five, throughout the book in every single story, no matter where Billy is or what happened, Billy is either making of himself or others, the narrative gives me a strong sense of ignorance and hopeless. Although, I think there are a few reasons of why one is more logical and emotional, while the other one is not. First, with Maus, the story was told by his father, so the author digested the story, and made a clear understanding out of it before he started writing about it; on the other hand, Vonnegut was just putting down random l thoughts, and adding quotes to make his story more validated, that is why sometimes readers cannot fully keep up with the logical flow of his story. Second, I think the reason why Maus is more emotional, was because it was written by the person that the story was told, therefore, stories might be told with mixing of the author’s personal emotions when her heard the story, plus, the person who told the story was his own father, clearly unhealthy and has experienced through horrible tragedies. But with slaughter house five, everything was a just joke to Vonnegut.