ou. When Rosa had Magda in the shawl, the Nazis still found Magda. Cynthia Ozick used the shawl as if it was a transitional object, and that still did not keep Magda safe. The shawl that was used to try to protect Magda, gives people a suggestion about how strong the humans will to survive is. It also shows the length to which we, as humans, will go to ensure, or at least try to convince ourselves that they have ensure their survival. Cynthia Ozick would give other hints to let the reader know that she was writing about a concentration camp. For example, Cynthia Ozick would give hints such as, a golden star sewn in their coats, or explaining that the characters were walking with no destination. The golden star was to show that they were Jews and the Jews walking with no destination, was the Nazis taking the Jews to the concentration camps. The Jews did not know where they were going because they were forcefully taken out of their homes by the Nazis and were not told where the Nazis were going. At the end of the short story The Shawl Magda gets caught and gets killed. Magda did not find the shawl and therefore she began to cry. Since the Nazis were trying to kill off the whole Jewish race the Nazis would not mind even killing the children. The Nazis heard Magda cry, so they found her and threw her against an electrical fence. Cynthia Ozick knew that the Nazis tried to kill the entire Jewish race, starting with the children, so that is why she let the Nazis find Magda and kill her. Topic: Cynthia OzickQuestion: How did Cynthia Ozick learn about the concentration camps?Thesis: Reading books are what influences her to become a writer, so she began to read about the history of Jews, which inspired her to write about it....
