In Maus, Spiegelman tells his own story through a series of telling images as he tries to gain insight into his father's life before and during the Holocaust. From now on, Spiegelman ultimately acknowledges that his troubled relationship with his father is a direct result of the tragic events his father was never able to recover from post-Holocaust. In contrast, Traplines is the story of a family, presumably First Nations, yet Robinson makes subtle mentions of them in the text. Robinson writes about the difficulties the family faces and how drugs and alcohol become a major way of dealing with pain and suffering. Although Maus and Traplines are stories set in different time periods, they both explore the repercussions of horrific past events. Under these circumstances, both stories include father-son relationships, living in the shadow of the institutional oppression that once haunted them. The problems they face throughout the story are directly linked to the agony they endured previously. Spiegelman illustrates the problems faced by his father in Maus I and II, while Robinson is very subtle in describing the problems the family faces. Maus and Traplines both include fragile father-child relationships where there is an extreme lack of communication, causing ineffective parenting and issues of displaced distress that haunt both generations. Despite uncontrollable circumstances, historical traumas such as the Holocaust and aggressive assimilation create intergenerational conflict on the children of genocide survivors because for them the trauma never fully fades. Spiegelman opens his story in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of his father's time. ..... middle of paper ...... big Short”. PowerPoint presentation forENG1200, University of Ottawa. 2014Dobson, Kit. “Indigeneity and diversity in the work of Eden Robinson.” (2009): n. page.Print.Elias, Brenda, Javier Mignone, Madelyn Hall, et al. “Stories of Trauma and Suicidal Behavior Among a Canadian Indigenous Population: An Empirical Exploration of the Potential Role of the Canadian Residential School System.” Social sciences and medicine. 74.10 (2012): 1560-1569. Print.Prager, Jeffrey . “Lost childhoods, lost generations: the intergenerational transmission of trauma.” Human Rights Journal. 2.2 (2003): 173-181. Network. March 27, 2014. Robinson, Eden. Traps. 1996. Print. Speigelman, art. Maus I: A Survivor's Story. New York: PantheonBooks, 1991. Print. Spieleman, art. Maus II: A Survivor's Story. New York: PantheonBooks, 1991. Print.