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Mind Map by jenlachapelle, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jenlachapelle
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Cynthia Ozick emphasizes features of the
setting in The Shawl through character, action
and atmosphere to create emotion in this
horrific and tragic story of a Nazi
concentration camp.
- Topic Sentence 2: The use of setting and action through specific
objects both inspire and bring sorrow to the reader and Rosa
- The Shawl that Rosa wraps her baby Magda in
protects and shields from the horrors of death and
starvation in the camp.
- Pg. 247 Para. 4 "It was a
magic shawl, it could
nourish an infant for
three days and three
nights."
- Pg. 248 Para. 10 "Then Stella took the shawl away
and made Magda die. Para. 14: "Magda was grieving
for the loss of her shawl, she saw Magda was going
to die."
- Pg. 248 Para. 10 "Then Stella took the shawl away
and made Magda die. Para. 14: "Magda was grieving
for the loss of her shawl, she saw Magda was going
to die."
- Pg. 247 Para. 2: "She
looked into Magda's face
though a gap in the shawl:
a squirrel in a nest, safe,
no one could reach her
inside the little house.."
- Pg. 247 Para. 4 "It was a
magic shawl, it could
nourish an infant for
three days and three
nights."
- The electric fence marks the boundary
between hell (death & despair in the
camp) and heaven (freedom & flowery
meadows), while also serving as a
vehicle to a better place.
- Pg. 248 Para 15: "On the other side of the
fence,.., green meadows speckled with
dandelions,.., innocent tiger lilies.. In the
barracks.. excrement, thick turd-braids..""
- Pg. 249 Para. 16: "She looked like a butterfly
touching a silver vine." "If she let the wolf's
screech ascending now through the ladder of
her skeleton break out, they would shoot;"
- Pg. 249 Para. 16: "She looked like a butterfly
touching a silver vine." "If she let the wolf's
screech ascending now through the ladder of
her skeleton break out, they would shoot;"
- Pg. 248 Para 15: "On the other side of the
fence,.., green meadows speckled with
dandelions,.., innocent tiger lilies.. In the
barracks.. excrement, thick turd-braids..""
- The Shawl that Rosa wraps her baby Magda in
protects and shields from the horrors of death and
starvation in the camp.
- Topic Sentence 3: The use of setting and atmosphere
through descriptive words and phrases engender love
and despair.
- Despite Rosa's emaciated
body, she nurse's Magda from her flaccid and dry
teats
- Pg. 247 Para. 3: "..she gave up
screaming, and sucked now only for
the taste of the drying nipple."
- Pg. 247 Para. 3: "..she gave up
screaming, and sucked now only for
the taste of the drying nipple."
- Rosa gives Magda almost all her food
and yet still she is fat with air, full and
round, on spindles of legs.
- Pg. 247 Para. 5: "they
were in a place without
pity, all pity was
annihilated in Rosa,."
- Pg. 247 Para. 5: "they
were in a place without
pity, all pity was
annihilated in Rosa,."
- Despite Rosa's emaciated
body, she nurse's Magda from her flaccid and dry
teats
- Topic Sentence 1: The use of setting and character in the Nazi
concentration camp influence the actions and emotions
of Rosa.
- Rosa hides her baby from the
guards as she knows it will be
killed.
- Pg. 247 Para. 6 "Rosa knew Magda was going
to die very soon; she should have been dead
already.."
- Pg. 247 Para. 6 "Rosa knew Magda was going
to die very soon; she should have been dead
already.."
- Rosa is in an trance-like state, unaware
and immune to her own needs, tending
only to the needs of her baby.
- Pg. 247 Para. 2 "Rosa did not feel
hunger; she felt light.."
- Pg. 247 Para. 2 "Rosa did not feel
hunger; she felt light.."
- Rosa hides her baby from the
guards as she knows it will be
killed.
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