A little bit into Rosa's Chapter

     The next chapter opens up and in the first little section I discovered that Stella was her niece.  Rosa still believes that she is canablistic and is out to get her and she still describes her as cold.  On page 15 it says, "Sometimes Rosa had cannibal dreams about Stella:  she was boiling her tongue, her ears, her right hand, such a fat hand with plump fingers, each nail tended and rosy, and so many rings, not modern rings but old-fashioned junk shop rings."  I think when she refers to the old rings she is saying that when she thinks or dreams of Stella doing this that maybe its tied to what she was like in the past and what she thought and fear when she was in the camps.
     I also noticed that she writes letters to not only Stella but her dead toddler Magda.  Besides she is writing letters to someone who died in the last chapter she writes them in Polish while her letters to Stella are in english.  Could this mean that she sees that Stella in modern and writes to her in english because she may not associate with her in the same closeness as before the camps, but at the same time writes these letters to Magda in Polish because she didn't speak english when she had her and maybe feels a closeness to her even though she is dead.
     I also noticed the mention of a furnace and not wanting to go near it in the first part of the chapter.  On page 14, "The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."  I think this is saying that no matter where she went her life in the concentration camps stays with her no matter where she goes and it haunts her.  Another thing that validates this claim is that she doesn't leave her house often to do her laundry and the letters she writes.  Everything she does is something connected to the past, but at the same time she tries to avoid it by not stepping outside and facing the reality she is living in.  She is no longer in the camps, Magda had died, and Stella has become a different person because of the holocaust, but she still makes references in her life about the camps, writes letters to her dead child, and calls Stella beautiful to cover up the fact that she is a cold person now.