The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King based on the events at the Overlook Hotel where the Torrance family is snowbound for the winter, which leads to some unfortunate events. Maus I: a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History is a 1986 graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about his father's history during the Holocaust. Both of these novels are beautiful stories full of episodes and events demonstrated differently. Although the plots of The Shining and Maus 1 have some minor similarities, the differences between them are clearer, which includes whether the plot is linear and sequential and the use of stream of consciousness, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. The novel Maus I is a story within a story, so it goes back and forth between the present and the past, which means that the plot is not completely linear and sequential. On the other hand, the novel The Shining is more linear and sequential than Maus I. Both novels contain flashbacks and foreshadowing, but The Shining has more foreshadowing than Maus I but fewer flashbacks. The Shining clearly includes stream of consciousness while Maus I does not. In The Shining the plot is sequential and linear. The texture is a typical pyramid structure with a steeper falling action. The novel begins with exposition that states who the novel is about, which in this case is the Torrance family, their background, their characteristics, the setting of the story, and what the problem might be. This continues until they begin to settle into the Overlook Hotel. Then we move on to the rising actions, which are the supernatural events that happened like the shine with Danny and Holloran, room 217, the hedges, and the elevator accident. He then reaches the cli...... middle of paper ...... of the past and present and gives the reader a better understanding of how this has affected not only him but also his son Artie and Anja. Stream of consciousness wasn't used much in Maus I because everything was told as a story. Maus I and The Shining are completely different types of novels, one graphic and the other horror. The differences between the plots of both are more pronounced. One of them has the typical pyramid structure plot while the other has more of a half pyramid and continues in Maus II. The Shining is sequential and linear and Maus I is non-sequential and non-linear. Flashbacks are more essential to Maus I while foreshadowing is more essential to The Shining.Works CitedKing, Stephen. The Shining One. New York: Doubleday, 1977. Print. Spiegelman, art. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Print.