Comparing The Human Condition In A Rose For Emily And The Shawl

The human condition is the idea in which covers the emotions, struggles, key events, and situations that compose the necessities in which human existence required and that people faces during a point in their life. The human condition in the story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick allows the reader to see and understand the real problem created in both main character life’s in both stories. In the story The Shawl, there are only three main characters who are Rosa, a young Jewish mother to her fifteen-month-old daughter named Magda; and Stella, her fourteen-year-old niece. They story started out as the narrator described what was going on with Rosa, Magda, and Stellar on their way to the camp. On one horrific day in the camp Magda need the shawl for comfort and when she couldn’t find her shawl, she wanders outside the barracks into the roll-call arena then the soldiers could see her. When Rosa was Magda out on the yard runs quickly to retrieve the shawl and quiet the baby, but she is too late. When she returns to the yard, she sees Magda being carried over the head of a guard who then threw her on an electret fence,"The fence hums as if its alive" electrocuting her and burning her body black. The event that took place in front of Rosa left her breathless because when she first saw her daughter running out …show more content…
Stella was a thin girl not because according to the narrator who described her as “[A] thin girl…, too small with thin breasts of her own…[she] was ravenous, a growing child herself, but not growing much…”. This shows that Stella was not giving enough to eat at the camp that why she looks bony and was jealous that “Rosa gave almost all her food to Magda”. she also struggled with the fact that Magda was being kept saved and wrapped in a shawl so she was jealous of her getting all the attention and