One of the professor’s questions was; is Rosa crazy? I feel that Rosa is crazy in certain ways. Rosa went through hell during her time in the concentration camps, and once she was finally released she was able moved on. During our class discussion we discussed that Rosa might have turned “crazy” because she felt some type of guilt for succeeding after everything that she went through, she could not handle the fact that she was moving on with her life, when way in the back of her head she remembers what her and her family went through in those camps. Rosa basically knew one way to live and that was the way she grew up in the camps, I think once she realized she was moving on and succeeding it got to her and she went “crazy”. After reading Rosa’s story she clearly went insane, by smashing the entire store and started living as a dirty bum in Florida. It is almost as something snapped in her, something was telling her that succeeding in life was a bad and that she does deserve it because of who she was and where she came from. Although Rosa experienced “voices” in head, I feel that it was something much more powerful coming from within Rosa herself, she just could not let go of what happened to her as well as her daughter. Rosa was fighting demons all over, and it seems that the only way for her to come out on top was to regress back to what she knew, live the way she grew up. Rosa’s story is important to tell because I feel that are many people out that wondered what happened to the survivors of the holocaust. To be honest I knew of the holocaust and how people were treated but after reading Rosa’s story and seeing what she went through, with watching her daughter die in front of her eyes, and just seeing how affected she was by all the pain and suffering she went through, and never really was able to let go of what happened to her in the past. Even though I have not finished the book and Rosa’s story I have hope for her, that she would be able to heal herself.
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