The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King based on the events at the Overlook Hotel where the Torrance family is snowed in for the winter, leading to to unfortunate events. Maus I: A Survivor's Story: My Father Bleeds the Story is a 1986 graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the story of his father during the Holocaust. These two novels are good stories filled with episodes and events demonstrated differently. Although the plots of The Shining and Maus 1 have some minor similarities, the difference between them is clearer, including whether the plot is linear and sequential, as well as the use of stream-of-consciousness, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. . The novel Maus I is a story within a story, so it cuts back and forth between the present and the past, meaning the plot is not completely linear and sequential. On the other hand, The Shining novel 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 whereas in Maus I it does not. In The Shining, the plot is sequential and linear. The plot is a typical pyramid structure with 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 move into the Overlook Hotel. Then it moves on to the rising actions, which are the supernatural events that happened like the shining with Danny and Holloran, room 217, the hedges, and the elevator incident. Then it reaches the middle of the paper......past and present it gives the reader a better understanding of how this has affected not only him but also his son Artie and Anja. A 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 the two are more pronounced. One of them has the typical pyramid structure while the other has more of a half-pyramid and continues in Maus II. The Shining is sequential and linear and Maus I is neither sequential nor non-linear. The flashbacks are more essential for Maus I and the foreshadowing is more for The Shining.Works CitedKing, Stephen. The Brilliant. New York: Doubleday, 1977. Print. Spiegelman, Art. Maus I: a survivor's story: my father bleeds history. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Print.