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Cynthia Ozick

had no clue what the Holocaust was really about. Cynthia Ozick did know about the Holocaust, she learned about the Holocaust just by reading about it. Cynthia Ozick wrote a letter to Elie Wiesel stating that just because she was not a witness of the Holocaust and part American, she should not be excluded from being part Jewish. Though inexperienced about the Holocaust, Cynthia Ozick still kept writing. She knew that the people who were held in concentration camps were mistreated and many were killed. Even though the setting and the action of the story that she wrote was swift and terrible, it did not seem like it. Cynthia Ozicks writing would not be explained in details, she would let the reader figure out where the story was taking place. She would use figurative language and similes in order to describe something. For example, in the short story The Shawl, Magda began to cry because she wanted the shawl. When Rosa found the shawl, Magda was high up, elevated, riding someone's shoulders(Ozick 605). Above the shoulder a helmet glinted. Below the helmet a black body like a domino and a pair of black boots hurled themselves in the direction of the electrified fence(Ozick 605). This statement would right away show that the body like a domino was one of the Nazis. Without Cynthia mentioning the word Nazi, certain descriptions would let the reader know what Cynthia Ozick was talking about, such as the domino like body. Rosa was Magdas mother and was trying to protect Magda from getting killed. Cynthia Ozick made Rosa use the shawl, as a shield, to rap Magda up so that no one could see Magda. During the time in the concentration camp, the shawl kept Magda very quiet. The shawl showed creativity and conventional symbolism under the most extreme situations. Cynthia Ozick knew that no matter how much you would try to protect yourself, the Nazis would still come after y...

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