It pains me to know that even after grave tragedies that there is never any way to be able to completely bounce back. Horrible events happen every day around our earth. It may not be to someone we know. But every day never the less a person’s life is changed for the worse, and there’s a chance they will never recover. Since all of us are unique there is not a full proof way in which someone can easily recover from a physical or emotion hardship. If one loses a leg, there are physical therapies that can regain strength and actually give you a prosthetic leg. But still there are phantom limb pains, and the knowledge that your life will never be the same again.
Horrible emotional hardships are much harder to resolve then physical pains. People like Rose, in our story, who had to deal with living through the holocaust will never be the same person they were before. Rose is struggling with understanding her current identity. Is she a survivor? Is she just a refugee in the United States? Should she just be dead? Since as a reader we aren’t completely clear on Rose’s emotional stableness, it’s hard to depict exactly how she feels. “Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new. As long as they didn’t have to say human being. It used to be refugee, but by now there was no such creature, no more refugees, only survivors.” (Page 36) Rose in this quote struggles with how she currently feels verse what others are trying to tell her how to feel. Stella her niece just simply thinks she is crazy, who she may be, but Stella is telling her to just throw out those memories. Something that Rose is completely unable to do, especially since the death of her child Madga haunts her every day.
As humans we heal on our own time and in our own way. A woman like Rose is just one of the thousands of people that may just never be able to move on from a hardship. It’s been over thirty years for Rose, yet everyday she still suffers the same pain as she did in the Concentration Camps.
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