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        <title><![CDATA[haleyl,
The details of the story, important as they are, are not laid...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[haleyl,
The details of the story, important as they are, are not laid out according to any plan or scheme. We learn in the first four paragraphs that Rosa, along with her young daughter Stella and her infant daughter Magda, have been on a forced march, and that spectators have lined up along the way as the marching Jews have gone by.
With paragraph 5, the scene shifts to the confines of a Nazi extermination camp, which is not named....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 21:31:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the symbol of the Butterfly as it appears in "The shawl"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/shawl/q-and-a/what-symbol-butterfly-appears-shawl-82767</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the symbol of the Butterfly as it appears in "The shawl"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 8 May 2009 15:39:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As the story opens, the main characters, Rosa, her infant daughter...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As the story opens, the main characters, Rosa, her infant daughter Magda, and her niece Stella, are on a forced marched to a Nazi concentration camp. It was common for the Nazis to move their prisoners from one camp to another on what came to be called death marches; if any died along the way, so much the better. Elie Wiesel describes in his book Night how he and his father had to walk from Buchenwald to Buna in the snow.Once they arrive at...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 17:44:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The two settings of &quot;The Shawl&quot; are closely related. One is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The two settings of &quot;The Shawl&quot; are closely related. One is the concentration camp; the other is on the road, walking to the concentration camp.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 17:37:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the settings of &quot;The Shawl&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/shawl/q-and-a/what-settings-quot-shawl-quot-please-help-me-23051</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are the settings of &quot;The Shawl&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 16:03:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The basic conflict in the story is that Rosa, a Jewish woman, has a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The basic conflict in the story is that Rosa, a Jewish woman, has a baby, Magda, whom she must keep hidden from the Nazis.  As she carries Magda on the march to the concentration camp, Rosa, who understands that Magda is fair and could pass for &quot;one of them&quot;, considers giving the child to someone along the way, but she knows if she gets out of line she will be shot.  She is also worried that if she does try to surreptitiously...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 15:35:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some conflicts in the story &quot;The Shawl&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/shawl/q-and-a/what-some-conflicts-story-quot-shawl-quot-please-23043</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are some conflicts in the story &quot;The Shawl&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 15:04:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The shawl is symbolic of the Jewish tallitt, a prayer shawl worn when...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The shawl is symbolic of the Jewish tallitt, a prayer shawl worn when Jews go to synagogue. When a Jewish person puts on the tallitt, he is wrapping himself with the commandments of the Bible. Critics also see it as a "transitional object" between a mother and an infant. Rosa, Stella, and Magda are like infants who need a mother, since they are suffering such deprivation. Wearing the shawl is their defense again the losses they have suffered....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:50:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the symbolic meaning of &quot;the shawl&quot; and how does it...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the symbolic meaning of &quot;the shawl&quot; and how does it relate to the main idea? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:18:03 PST</pubDate>
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