Insanity In Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl

The book The Shawl written by Cynthia Ozick had a number of deep emotions to it that were very visible to the reader. It was more in the darker range of emotions than anything but there was most likely a purpose for this. Ozick’s portrayal of insanity and instability were a reflection to the horrors many Jewish people went through in the Holocaust. She used these emotions to communicate the past that her people faced and the struggles they went through while trying to come back to normality in their life after the camps. Though she was not one to live through the camps herself, perhaps she is trying to keep these events from being forgotten by the people.
The whole book is through Rosa’s eyes but the more one reads into her words we can see