from life’s triumphs instead of facing up to him. I feel that my judgment changes with Stella as the story progresses. She starts off in the beginning of the story as a negative person who feels neglected as a teenager. She doesn’t like Magda for the mere fact that she is a child. She talks negative and I feel that she did not like Rosa for shutting her out of her life when Magda was born. Then all of a sudden, she makes this attitude adjustment throughout the story by writing to Rosa in a positive seeing how she is doing and giving her advise her life as a person. She also mails back the Shawl to her aunt that really changes the outcome of the story. Stella was not talked about during most of the story after she had stolen the Shawl and Rosa had no idea where it was. I was thinking Stella would have to come back into the picture sooner or later. After the letter she sent to Rosa telling her she was fine and that she needs to move on with her life, it appeared that Stella has learned to accept life as it was given to her. She tried giving advise to her aunt, but to no prevail.The author of this book has enabled me to sympathize with Rosa. In the beginning of the book they were in the concentration camp where she was trying to protect Magda from death and being seen. She also was trying to keep the family together while in the camp as far as not letting anyone recognize Magda and making sure Stella is okay. Magda dies and Rosa gives up on herself and her life as a woman. I feel sorry for her because I felt as though Rosa was a complete person. Someone that will feel the hardship and pain of Magda’s death and go on with her life after so much advise from Stella and Simon Persky to do so. She never took their advice and now she is by herself. Persky came into her life and tried to give her hope and turn her life around, but she never took advantage of that. She does things only when she has to. Her laundry needed to be do...
