Ozick's intentions...

What do you think Ozick's intentions are with this book? What does she want us to get out of it?


-I think Ozick's intentions are to show how previous painful experiences can always be with us, no matter how far away we are from the experience by time, or distance. 
-Personally, I think Ozick makes her point clear. After all of some 30 years that Rosa spends away from the Nazi camps, still her memories bother her and eventually lead to what seems to be her downfall. Once she smashes her shop and moves to Florida we see how poorly she truly does feel about herself and we see the problems that many people probably never saw.
-I think everyone in our class and all people by the college age know what it's like to experience something they wish they hadn't and that caused them pain, whether it be a relationship, an altercation, or an accident. -I can think of many times having my feelings hurt by someone and never being able to forget how they made me feel, but in the time where they aren't around I tend to forget what happened until I see them again and I feel the pain again.
- What Rosa feels is much, much more serious of an experience but, what she goes through is similar. For a time she tried to move on and not think about what she went through but, eventually her memories took over and led her to the Florid hotel room where she's living similarly to how she did as an inmate in the camps. I guess another one of Ozick's purposes could be to prove that you can only run from your past for so long.