Tha Shawl The events presented by Cynthia Ozick in The Shawl, happen during the World War II in Europe, when the Germans were occupying much of the Europe and led most of the Jews in concentration camps. In the beginning,, Ozick is presenting us a forced march to a concentration camp, on a very cold day. The principal character that she introduced to us is Rosa, the mother of a fifteen months old girl, Magda, and her niece, Stella, who walked along on that miserable day (Ozick 277). Little Magda was wrapped in her mother’s shawl and because they all of them were starving and Rosa didn’t have mild to nursery her baby, she was sucking the shaw. The shawl is the central piece on the story, during the long walk of these three people to the camp.
