Project Summary: Read/review the following resources for this activity: Link (PDF file): The Shawl Minimum of 1 peer-reviewed library resource for initial post Introduction Silence is louder than words in Cynthia Ozicks The Shawl. Emaciated prisoners move without word throughout a world of horror a world without light, no place for a child. Although Ozick had not experienced the terror of the Holocaust or its death camps, she was inspired to write The Shawl after reading a line in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.