-So far, The Shawl has seemed like a very bleak story to me. By bleak I mean a very blank story, one that is very sad but yet for some reason hasn't evoked any emotion for me yet. This is different than the other stories I've read because in reading stories like Push and Butterflies I found myself getting caught up in the characters along with their situation and feeling bad for them. In The Shawl it's not quite that I don't feel bad for Rosa, Magda, and Stella it's just that their feelings are shown to the reader in an indirect manner, much different than with Precious. We never directly hear how terrible the camps are or get any details of what it's really like to be a detainee. All of the details we do get about the Nazi camps are watered down. Maybe it's because I've read other gruesome stories about the holocaust, it just doesn't seem to portray how bad it really was, possibly because of the length.
-Ozick tends to use a lot of figurative language in the story.
- In my eyes the magic Shawl is what the characters hope and lives revolve around. The Shawl is the only thing that holds them all together. It is their hope, their friend, and their security in a way. I have yet to finish Rosa's portion but it is apparent that Rosa still suffers from her experiences in the holocaust and The Shawl is still very important to her, it's still her protection, it still has the magic.
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