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    It is an exhilirating feeling, that can instantly increase the quality of a child's day. Nisi Shawl does a wonderful job of recreating this experience. In the novel "Everfair" by Nisi Shawl, Shawl uses the process of bike ride, to convey a feeling of adventure and exhoneration by using strong literary techniques. Shawl creates a sense of contempt in the bike ride for Lisette. Throughout the story, Shawl creates the image of Lisette escaping from life while riding her bike. In the last paragraph,

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    desperation, motherhood , and the horror of human conflict , causes there to be a ending that is catastrophic. In the reading we see a story being told in a third person perspective with a closer view of one of the main characters Rosa. The story “The Shawl” we find a captivating story filled with emotions of a traumatic event in history. Cynthia Ozick starts of her story with a focus on a trio of jewish characters who are forced to march

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    The Shawl by Louise Erdrich Among the Anishinaabeg on the road where I live, it is told how a woman loved a man other than her husband and went off into the bush and bore his child. Her name was Aanakwad, which means cloud, and like a cloud she was changeable. She was moody and sullen one moment, her lower lip jutting and her eyes flashing, filled with storms. The next, she would shake her hair over her face and blow it straight out in front of her to make her children scream with laughter. For

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    Girl in the Yellow Shawl When I wake up, the first thing I feel is an aching pain in my feet. The pain moves on to my stomach, filling my belly with an unpleasantly hollow sensation. Then the ache proceeds to my head, pounding against the back of my skull. Pain is not an unusual or foreign sensation to me; we two are as familiar as a pair of twins in the womb. As I grow more aware, the ache of my body becomes more persistent. My feet are mostly numb except for the occasional sting of the cold snow

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    dies, Rose then became psychologically ill: “So she took Magda’s shawl and filled her own mouth with it, stuffed it in and stuffed it in, until she was swallowing up the wolf’s screech.”(Ozick 4). In a sense, the mother becomes the baby and loses faith because depression takes over after her baby died. She starts to lose her mind because she loses her hope. The psychological effect of Rosa can be related to the

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    Cynthia Ozick’s story “The Shawl” is told in a way were the readers feel hopelessness and despair. The characters are put in a situation so hopeless there’s no way that they can escape. This text at first begins with confusion, however as you read more you start to put the pieces to gether like a puzzle. Magda the only character who thrives in the story, and still she becomes a victim of the harsh environment around her. At it’s core this text tells of how you can be thrown in an concentration camp

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    The Shawl’s Literary Elements: Analysis of the short story’s theme, imagery, and symbols In “The Shawl”, Cynthia Ozick uses theme, imagery, and symbols to present her short story’s setting. As Ozick presents the plot, she emphasizes on these three literary elements (theme, imagery, and symbolism) to exaggerate and organize her short story. “The Shawl” is about a mother named Rosa, Magda (her blue-eyed blonde hair infant baby), and her older daughter Stella who are forced to march in harsh conditions

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    and Loss of Humanity in Ozick’s “The Shawl” It is human nature to strive for comfort, to seek ease in a burdensome situation. When deprived of this sense of comfort, as demonstrated by Cynthia Ozick in “The Shawl”, it is through the suffering that ensues in which humanity is lost. This is made evident in her sparse writing style, the duality of the setting, and the use of illusionary symbolism. Ozick exhibits a degree of sparsity in the style of which “The Shawl” is written that mirrors the dehumanizing

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    holocaust are conveyed well in the short story “The Shawl” as the author, Cynthia Ozick illustrates the horrific battle of motherhood and strife for survival they faced. Rosa, Ozick’s main character experiences an internal battle of nurturing her infant Magda and following her motherly instincts or fighting for her own survival. Magda another crucial character grips onto the ropes of life through the threads of the shawl but when she loses her shawl she loses her life showing the harsh realities of

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    “The Shawl” is a very devastating story centered on the Holocaust. It is a story of determination, survival, and sacrifice. It is based on the experiences of Rosa, Stella the niece, and Magda; Rosa’s daughter. Rosa lives to tell her story of the events surrounding her daughter’s death. What we have learned about the Holocaust, especially the violence makes the story realistic, tragic and compelling at the same time. The shawl becomes a symbol of survival, protection, and comfort for all three characters

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