The Holocaust Illustrated In Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl

The struggle of a mother to keep her baby alive Cynthia Ozick portrayed in “The Shawl” a very vivid, detailed orientated novella. By knowing and promoting research on this author, one can tell that this understanding Jewish-American essayist is an expert in the ideals of the Holocaust. Overall, many critics agree that Ozick's stories are “Mydriatics,” meaning a link between two stories to approach the subject. In this case the Holocaust, at the same time not forgetting it is a horrifying reality. In “The Shawl” Rosa being a primary protagonist, is Jewish, heading towards a concentration camp with Stella a family member and Magda an infant of hers as Ozick's exclaims (246). Ozick exerts an extreme suffering theme in the story by showing the imagery perceived, the safety one had to treasure, and depression. Ozick states, “Stella cold, cold the coldness of Hell” (246). An explanation Ozick makes to show the tedious conditions one had to go through. Now, Rosa, Stella, and Magda were like many victims of a shameless corrupt society that had the upper hand to deny or diminish food, and human rights, because of this the status quo would remain the same until the end of the war. It is complicated and dreadful to imagine the conditions an individual went through; the closest possible figment of this reality is as Ozick states, “There was not enough
“The Shawl,” showed the readers a glimpse of how humanity was at one point and how unfortunate certain groups were profiled and humiliated, thrown into a concentration camp to die. Ozick gives the reader a one to one relation with the characters showing what their ventures were how to manage in these inhumane experiments done by the Germans. In great detail, Cynthia makes this voyage a suffering theme, where a person can see what the major encounters were, the scenery, the imagery one saw, the safety one treasured, and