ne, but she does only when there isn’t any other choice. It seems to me that she never gave anyone a chance to change her life around. She was always complaining about how life is and how bad she had it coming up as a kid. When someone comes into her life for relief and hope, she turned it down.The purpose of the minor characters is to represent attitudes. First, Stella realizes that she no one pays attention to her. She becomes jealous of her cousin. She steals the Shawl and Magda dies. Rosa, not knowing that Stella has the Shawl, is terrified of Magda’s death. Stella moves to New York and moves on with her life. Persky comes in the picture while Rosa is doing her laundry. As a matter, he was not there to do his laundry, only to read the newspaper. They converse for a while and end up having tea before departing. They meet again at Rosa’s house for tea again, but Rosa’s sudden attitude for the Shawl lead Persky to leave and come back the next day. Then there is Magda. Her child of fifteen months struggling to hold on to her life dies. She was a good child. She was hungry and in desperate need of milk that dried up from Rosa’s breast. Her Shawl was stolen by her cousin and she was notice by the soldiers and thrown against the fence to be electrocuted. The attitude that Rosa had was an attitude against her and life.This historical contexts help provide us with the idea of a sudden change in our society. Being a Holocaust survival as were Rosa and Stella, they both went there separate ways. One moving to Miami and the other to New York gives me the interpretation of the past and present. Being in a concentration camp only to read that Rosa came to Miami leads me the question of what happened before they moved to Miami. The novel has Stella and Rosa living in a normal society and we never know what they do for a living. It leads me to believe that the novel only expresses the concept of events and it does not ...
