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A review by haley_j_casey
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
3.0
Another short story for class!
I don't really know how I feel about this one... The writing was well-done, and the subject was brutal but honest, but overall I wasn't caught up in the few pages. I felt like I knew what was going to happen in the end (though I don't think it was supposed to be a secret, either), and in the beginning, I thought the story was going to be from one POV and it ended up being from another. I also felt like some of the details were described completely clearly, and then a paragraph later the descriptions were vague and had to be deciphered.
I just don't know. It wasn't bad. But I don't think I, personally, liked it.
After discussing it in class, I liked the meaning better. But not necessarily the story itself :/
I don't really know how I feel about this one... The writing was well-done, and the subject was brutal but honest, but overall I wasn't caught up in the few pages. I felt like I knew what was going to happen in the end (though I don't think it was supposed to be a secret, either), and in the beginning, I thought the story was going to be from one POV and it ended up being from another. I also felt like some of the details were described completely clearly, and then a paragraph later the descriptions were vague and had to be deciphered.
I just don't know. It wasn't bad. But I don't think I, personally, liked it.
After discussing it in class, I liked the meaning better. But not necessarily the story itself :/