The first part of the full story, “The Shawl”, written by Cynthia Ozick, takes place in a concentration camp during World War Two. Rosa, the mother of one, lives at the camp with her fifteen month old daughter and her fourteen-year-old niece. Each of the characters is thin, weak from hunger, and forced to do all of this because they are Jewish. The small rations that they are given are barely enough for survival. Magda, the daughter, is completely obsessed with a shawl, giving the title of the story. This shawl has made the daughter survive. Stella, the niece, is jealous of Magda. Therefore, she takes the shawl from Magda. On any other day, Magda would have had her shawl and would not have made a sound. This would guarantee that the Nazi guards
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Rosa is mentally unstable, and is taken care of by the niece, Stella. Rosa is in a home for the elderly and Stella gives money. She meets a suitor, who she rejects. One day, she gets a package and two letters from Stella. One of those letters is about the shawl that she will be getting, the same shawl she had in the concentration camp. The other is about a university researcher who is conducting a study on Holocaust survivors. Rosa then writes to her dead daughter and writes a past, present, and future for her. By the end of the story, Rosa has relived her past problems and writes to try to relieve herself of her …show more content…
Rosa’s goal in “The Shawl” is to keep Magda alive, even though she knows that Magda will die no matter what. Rosa fears many things, such as someone in the camp wanting to eat Magda when she dies. Her goal is to delay the moment of truth.
“The Shawl”, published in 1980 and “Rosa”, published in 1983, was both written in different ways. “The Shawl” was written in an omniscient third person point of view, as the narrator could tell what different characters were feeling. The short story, only a few pages long, was written poetically, as it showed the dangers of the concentration camp with eloquent language.
The story, “Rosa” was written differently. This story was a long story and lost the poetic tone that its predecessor had. The story was also written in an omniscient third person point of view. The story was written like a novel, a sequel to “The Shawl”. With that in mind, however, it was written in a way that many people would be able to understand even when not reading the first
Rosa is mentally unstable, and is taken care of by the niece, Stella. Rosa is in a home for the elderly and Stella gives money. She meets a suitor, who she rejects. One day, she gets a package and two letters from Stella. One of those letters is about the shawl that she will be getting, the same shawl she had in the concentration camp. The other is about a university researcher who is conducting a study on Holocaust survivors. Rosa then writes to her dead daughter and writes a past, present, and future for her. By the end of the story, Rosa has relived her past problems and writes to try to relieve herself of her …show more content…
Rosa’s goal in “The Shawl” is to keep Magda alive, even though she knows that Magda will die no matter what. Rosa fears many things, such as someone in the camp wanting to eat Magda when she dies. Her goal is to delay the moment of truth.
“The Shawl”, published in 1980 and “Rosa”, published in 1983, was both written in different ways. “The Shawl” was written in an omniscient third person point of view, as the narrator could tell what different characters were feeling. The short story, only a few pages long, was written poetically, as it showed the dangers of the concentration camp with eloquent language.
The story, “Rosa” was written differently. This story was a long story and lost the poetic tone that its predecessor had. The story was also written in an omniscient third person point of view. The story was written like a novel, a sequel to “The Shawl”. With that in mind, however, it was written in a way that many people would be able to understand even when not reading the first