the shawl

The story ia about fifteen-month old Magda, and how her mother, Rosa, deals and tries to keep her from death by the Nazis, as they march to a concentration camp. Along with Magda, Rosa’s niece, Stella is marching with them. Stella is always cold physically cold, and eventually steals the shawl , which i still dont understand what a shawl is. The book summarizes Rosa’s harse memorries of that dreadful day when she marched to the concentration camp, and her horrifying memories of later times she spent in the camp. She also witnessed one of nthe gaurds kill her daughter. Cynthia Ozick gave  us a great book, and one that intensifies as the reader moves through the pages. Her writing is a talent, and it is a gift to her readers. The Shawl is an excellent psychological study of love and death,  loss, remembering and guilt. I recommend it to all those who wish to have a greater understanding of the effects that the Holocaust has on individuals, decades after the fact. The Shawl should always be in  in high school, college and university libraries forever.