The Shawl | Characters
Rosa and Stella can be seen as two "types" of survivors. Rosa, with one young child, places all of her efforts into keeping Magda alive. As long as Magda is alive, Rosa does not need to eat, for her nourishment comes from the safety of her child. Stella, however, has no other life to protect and has no maternal instinct to override the desperate self-preservation brought on by the Holocaust. The cold that descends upon her, permeates her very heart. Stella has found that she must harden herself to resist the Holocaust. Eventually, when she steals the life-giving shawl from Magda, her...
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