Cynthia Ozick

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” - Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick is an American Writer, novelist and an essayist. While many americans take for granted that they are American Citizens and they have this freedom, when in another country people would kill to be an American citizen. The least that people could do is respect the flag and the veterans that fought for the flag that represents this country. But these days people have started to kneel during the…

The book The Shawl written by Cynthia Ozick had a number of deep emotions to it that were very visible to the reader. It was more in the darker range of emotions than anything but there was most likely a purpose for this. Ozick’s portrayal of insanity and instability were a reflection to the horrors many Jewish people went through in the Holocaust. She used these emotions to communicate the past that her people faced and the struggles they went through while trying to come back to normality in…

with the difficult times in their lives. In Cynthia Ozick’s essay “A Drugstore In Winter,” she writes about how she and her family coped with the effects of the Great Depression. Her family faced many obstacles during the depression, like their drugstore being shut down, but they survived by dealing with the difficulties. In the essay, she writes about how she faced many obstacles in her life, but how she used literature to cope with the depression. Ozick wrote about how talking to her…

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…

bring the readers imagination to life. An example of one of the similes is “She looked like a butterfly touching a silver vine.” This describes the electric metal fence that surrounded the concentration camp that the characters were located at. Cynthia used beautiful similes to describe horrifying events that were taking…

himself. Dostoevsky's shift back to religion stemmed from his yearning to find familiarity in his life, an ideology that made sense to him. During his time in prison, as with many prisoners, Dostoevsky found his religion again. As pointed out by Cynthia Ozick in Dostoyevsky’s Unabomber, Dostoyevsky “fought doubt with passion unreason: ‘If someone proved to me that Christ is outside truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ then…

As Cynthia Ozick stated in her New Yorker essay, “The philosopher is the one with the murder.” Genocide is never just illogical, unlinked murder madness; it is where patriotisms bleeds into nationalism which bleeds into a political utopia, promising one people…

whenever you’re stalking a famous person on social media, you always see these appreciation post with captions like, “I love you guys so much!” or “Thank you guys so much!”. Have you ever thought about what would happen if they didn’t do that? Cynthia Ozick once said “We often take for granted the very things that deserve our most gratitude.” In the story, “The fight”, The author Adam Bagdasarian shows us this boy Will, who is living a dream. He has girls, “friends”, fame, everything. However,…

“The Shawl”: More Than a Piece of Cloth When we think about a shawl, we typically relate it to a garment that one would wear as a fashion statement or something to keep warm. How could a piece of material be anything else? In Cynthia Ozick’s short story “The Shawl,” we see that it indeed can be more than just a piece of cloth. The main character, Rosa is a mother who uses a shawl to protect her baby, Magda, while Magda uses the shawl as a source of comfort and Stella, Rosa’s niece, is…

Cynthia Ozick once said, "We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." We may not want to believe it but this is absolutely true. Everyone has done it. Your parents drive you anywhere and everywhere without a thank you. The nice person who holds the door open for you every morning that receives a grumpy, mumbled "Thanks." Also, your best friend who stays with you through every high and low point, but rarely receives an "I appreciate you." We 've all been in those…