April 24, 2011

Cynthia Ozick, author of The Shawl has a very complex style of writing. The first chapter kind of made the book intimidating because Ozick has a very detail oriented writing style. She can talk about the death of a child and make the floating body seem as it’s a butterfly.

So far we see that this story is being told from the point of view of Rosa who is a mother of Magda and the care taker of Stella. The story seems as though it is being told from a diary. Rosa seems crazy calling Stella a devil and carrying on like that. But her daughter was killed right in front of her and she did nothing to protect her. I don’t understand why they killed Magda though. That was cruel.