"The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick goes beyond just a shawl or an infant playing with it. The shawl is a fiber that holds them all together, happy to a certain extent, and a security blanket. It creates a fabricated sense of security, a friend. This relates to me in a small way by the sense of security one obtained by the blanket.
This shawl did wonders to a certain point for the three that were impoverished and imprisoned in the camp. Jealousy did erect its arms and grab Stella down under because of this shawl. The line "Stella wanted to be wrapped in a shawl, hidden away, asleep, rocked…
