In The Shawl Rosa, her infant daughter Magda, and her fourteen year old niece Stella are Polish Jews interned in a concentration camp -- "a place without pity" during World War II. Miraculously the infant Magda has survived with her mother, hidden and protected in a shawl. If the Nazis ever learn of her presence she is certain to be killed. Sharing food -- of which there is never enough -- sucking on the shawl, Magda survives, for a while.
Eventually, of course, the inevitable occurs. It is brutal, horrible, and sad, a very short story packing a big punch.
Even though the book leads us up to the point of her death, the rest of the story is pretty much boring and it takes away from the reader's attention. In developing the characters throughout the story we begin with Magda. She is the youngest of them all and she is the first to die as well (Gale Group, 2002). She continues to be talked about by Stella and Rosa throughout the story. Magda ends up to be a very important part of Rosa's life before and after her death.
The Shawl is a powerful story of unspeakable horrors, sparely written by a true artist. One might ask: to what end? - A question for which we do not have an answer. It is a very fine piece. It is also something that might not be to everyone's taste.
Rosa continues the story, more than thirty years later. Rosa Lublin and Stella live in the United States, with Rosa just having moved to Florida after demolishing her used-furniture store in Brooklyn.
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