The essay starts out talking about what the essay is going to talk about like trauma, postmemory, generational transmission, and the use of English. The essay gives a summary of Maus. It says that the farther, Vladek, is a survivor of the holocaust and the concentration camps at Auschwitz. This story being told from the farther to the son is a big part of the family’s history. It also says that Art wish he could have experienced the holocaust at first hand. The essay then goes to talk about how Art tries to make the whole thing have to do with him, like he has to be the center of attention. The author says that readers need to look at the story in a different perspective and take a different approach that has not yet been taken or something