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    A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa"
    A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa"
    A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa"
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    A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa"

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    A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535832342
    A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa"

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      A Study Guide for Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa" - Gale

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      Rosa

      Cynthia Ozick

      1983

      Introduction

      Rosa by Cynthia Ozick was first published in the New Yorker in 1983. However, its protagonist, Rosa Lublin, was introduced three years earlier in The Shawl, a much shorter story also published in the New Yorker. The two stories were re-released together as a book in 1989 entitled The Shawl. Rosa also appeared in the anthology Prize Stories 1984, a collection of O. Henry Prize winners.

      While The Shawl tells the painful story of how Rosa's infant daughter is brutally killed by a Nazi guard in a concentration camp, Rosa revisits the protagonist 30 years later, who is still devastated by her daughter's death. Living a meager, isolated existence in a hotel for the elderly, financed by Stella her resentful niece, Rosa is unable to let go of her daughter and the past.

      Rosa dramatizes the lasting impact of the Holocaust on a unique, complex character who is not entirely sympathetic. While obviously the far-reaching effects of the Holocaust is a major theme in this story, Ozick also deals with themes of alienation and denial and explores how American culture devalues and isolates the elderly.

      Author Biography

      Cynthia Ozick was born April 17, 1928, in New York City, the second child of Russian immigrants William and Celia Ozick. Her parents owned and operated a drugstore in the Bronx, where Cynthia worked delivering prescriptions. Her father was a Jewish scholar, and her uncle was a well-respected Hebrew poet who first introduced her to the world of literature.

      During her early school years in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, Cynthia endured anti-Semitic attacks and slurs, especially when she refused to sing Christmas carols with the rest of her class. She escaped into reading, getting books from her older brother and from a traveling library that came by her parents' drugstore. Her school life took a more positive turn when she entered Hunter College High School in Manhattan, where Ozick's academic excellence was more appreciated. After high school, she went

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