Traumatic experiences have always played a role in shaping the literary works of various authors. There is something attractive to the human mind about reading on another’s life experiences and how one event can have such a drastic effect on an individual. Such is the case with Art Spiegelman’s Maus I: My Father Bleeds History. Spiegelman tells the first person recollection of his father telling him the tales of his experiences throughout the Holocaust. Although this is a trauma, the style in which it is written, a comic strip, tends to make it a lighter read. Regardless, this tragedy gives a powerful insight into the life of a Holocaust survivor.