The Tragedy of the Holocaust Most individuals in society think of literature as just a simple story that the author creates. What most individuals don’t know is that authors have a meaning for writing literature‚ not just simply for pleasure. Most authors write literature to show a message to the audience whether it’s a personal story or a historical event. The author does this by providing the audience with visual image and emotion that is created throughout the story. In the short story “The
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camp‚ Ozick produces two static characters whose lack of development throughout the story emphasizes the theme of overwhelming hopelessness. In The Shawl Rosa‚ her infant daughter Magda‚ and her fourteen year old companion Stella are Jews interned in a concentration camp during World War II. Amazingly the infant Magda has survived with her mother‚ hidden and protected in a shawl. If the Nazis ever learn of her existence she is certain to be killed. The Setting of this story sets the reader up for
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Nazi Germany. The lead character‚ Rosa‚ is a Jewish woman trying to flee from a terrible fate in a concentration camp with her two daughters‚ the infant‚ Magda and the teenager‚ Stella. Rosa‚ tired and weary from the endless flight‚ and her daughters‚ malnourished and weak‚ all continue on until they reach a place to sleep for the night. Magda‚ whose shawl is a source of comfort for her‚ loses the shawl one night in her sleep to her sister Stella. The baby‚ who has not said a word for days‚ howls
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the Holocaust. The shawl‚ that carries Magda‚ becomes a mother when Rosa is unable to fulfill he motherly duties. Since her mother is unable to produce milk “ The duct crevice extinct‚ a dead volcano‚ blind eye‚ chill hole” Magda turns to the shawl to gain nourishment “She sucked and sucked‚ flooding the threads with wetness. The shawl’s good flavor‚ milk of linen” (Orzick 3). Although the shawl’s main purpose is giving nourishment it also conceals Magda from the Nazi’s on the march to the concentration
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was waiting for Magda to die so she could put her teeth into her little thighs.” (Ozick 247). Stella’s coldness of her heart comes from the jealousy of Magda being safe in her shawl. Stella was in a state of mind as a cannibal due to the scarceness of food on the journey to the concentration camp. While Rosa would give her food to Magda‚ “Stella gave nothing; Stella was ravenous‚ a growing child…” (Ozick 247). Because of Stella’s cold heart‚ “Stella took the shawl away and made Magda die.” (Ozick 247)
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The film also depicts the victims of war as the viewer witnesses drafted civilians fighting in place of dead German soldiers and are introduced to the perspective of children fighting under the Hitler’s Youth regime. There is a scene that truly captures the victims of war element as a father with only one arm goes searching for his son and walks upon some kids dressed in the Nazi gear preparing to the Russian invasion. The father sees his son with bazooka in hand and demands that his son comes with
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Protected by a Woven Thread “The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick revolves around the suffering‚ horror and cruelty faced by Jewish people during the Holocaust. As Nazis were on a hunt to end Jewish people‚ the story being with Rosa trying to protect her daughter Magda and her fourteen years old nice Stella from the electric fence; then used to kill children. While on a constant battle of life and death of her own‚ Rosa has a constant fear for the life of her two siblings. While dealing with a constant threat of
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characters are Rosa‚ who was a mother of two daughters‚ Stella who was fourteen and Magda who was fifteen months. The plot of the story surrounds a magic shawl. The shawl is a major part of the complication‚ climax and resolution of the story. The magic shawl is the only thing the three starving women have keeping them alive and eventually leads to their demise. The plot of The Shawl ends with a camp guard tossing the infant Magda onto an electrified fence. Ozick’s use of symbolism is very important to
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many of us believe we have‚ but not any of us really possess. In Cynthia Ozick ’s The Shawl the image of death is introduced in the opening paragraph‚ when the narrator graphically explains that Rosa ’s breasts does not have enough milk to feed baby Magda - who sometimes screams because there is nothing for her to
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"What’s in a Name?" What exactly is in a name? You’re name is who you are; it distinguishes John Smith‚ from Joe Blow. There is much weight that is vested into a name; in the Native American culture a child is given a name that fits his character. In our society‚ the title of Doctor connotates respect and that he is a well-educated individual. In This Earth of Mankind‚ a name not only separates individuals by identifying who one is‚ it also defines him as a person. A name with a generally negative
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