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The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick

Introduction

“The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick is a masterful work unfolding an almost indescribably terrible time in world history. This narration takes place during the Second World War in Nazi Germany. Rosa, the main character, is a Jewish lady trying to run away from a dreadful doom in a concentration camp together with her two daughters, the teenager, Stella and the infant, Magda. Rosa, exhausted and tired out from the endless struggle, and her daughters, weak and, malnourished, all keep on until they get to a place to take rest for the night. Magda's shawl is a source of relieve and comfort for her, however, when one night she loses her shawl in her sleep to her younger sister Stella. Stella, who has not spoken a single word for days, yowls and goes outside the enclosure in quest of her shawl. Rosa instantly wakes up to see her daughter crying outside close to a concentration camp searching for her shawl. She went outside and run back into the enclosure to get hold of the shawl in an effort to draw in Magda back into the relative protection of the enclosure. Though this effort failed and Magda is found by a Nazi soldier and is slaughtered and thrown into an electric fence. Thus, “The Shawl” written by Cynthia Ozick elaborates metaphors that use imagery and symbolism to point up the image of death.

Confirmation

In, “The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick's the image of death is commenced in the introductory paragraph, when the storyteller graphically give details that Rosa's breasts does not have sufficient milk to feed her infant Magda, who often cries for the reason that there is nothing for her to suck apart from air. As symbolized in the story, “Stella was ravenous……….. chicken bones” ...