Milkweed Character Traits

In the book Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, Misha Pilsudski is a brave boy that survives from starving or even freeze in the winter. Summary Paragraph (if necessary): Orphaned at an early age, the main character also known as Misha Pilsudski, eventually assumes an identity that his friend, Uri, present upon him. Unsure whether he is a Jew, a Gypsy, or simply a boy named "Stop thief," Main character suddenly becomes Misha Pilsudski. While trying to steal food, Misha befriends a young girl named Janina Milgrom.

Was angels, good and evil, manifesting in his home? Did he watch, one last battle, unfold before his eyes? We all know who wins in that battle. Since that day I have wondered if some of them were God’s angels who attended him, cared for him, and strengthened him.

Gross uses his evidence to prove to the Polish government and others that they were not all victims of Nazis during the second World War but perpetrators themselves in that the Polish of Jedwabne killed their Jewish neighbors without prompting from the Nazis. Gross lets the facts speak for themselves using firsthand accounts of the event. For instance, Boleslaw Ramotowski notes “I want to stress that Germans did not participate in the murder of Jews; they just stood and took pictures of how Poles mistreated the Jews.” Through his historical account Gross tells a clear story without excess interpretation or confusing numbers of stories or sources. The tightness of “fit”

In my book there were a lot of conflict between the whites and blacks. The whites were plantation owners and the blacks were slaves. Throughout the book there were a lot of symbols but the most important symbol was the tractor. The tractor represented the blacks did on the plantation, the tractor was the primary tool that pushed the blacks off the land.

Symbols are often characters, animals, objects, and or actions. In The Grapes of Wrath, a symbol that I first came across when reading was the turtle that was trying to continue its journey in the rough terrain. It was run over by a truck, that threw it on to the other side of the road and it still got up and continued its way. The turtle directly symbolizes the Joad’s. Like the turtle, the Joad’s are thrown off track by the harsh environment, but continue on their journey through the hardship.

But understanding the symbols and patterns is what makes the progression of the book more interesting. But in the story, a certain theme is present throughout the pages and that is the symbol of not giving up on what you believe in. As the story continues, we understand that Jews did not give up their faith even if it cost them their lives. Which shows the relentlessness of the Jews in their faith. Another symbol that is present in the book is the care the Jews have for other Jews.

The L shaped barn, the cat, the red pickle dish, and the great elm tree all have symbolic meanings. Wharton uses all these objects to develop the theme of failure to the story. However, the pickle dish was the most important symbolic object. The pickle dish represents the Frome’s matrimony. The dish was a wedding gift and Zeena’s most prized possession.

In the novel Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, the greatest threat the Jews forced to survival life in the ghetto is both the lack of food and Nazi soldiers. Nowadays, threats don't look like Nazi soldiers they look like cats and dogs and fighting. For example, Nazi soldiers “are going to forced people into the camps by deportations. They are going to get rid of all of you.” (p.169)

In a book “Among the Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Haddix, symbolism is used to create a powerful feeling with a place or thing. For example, Luke (the main protagonist) was "... always safe and protected by the house and the barn and the woods. Until they took the woods away." (pg. 11) The woods were Luke’s playground where he didn’t have to worry about being seen, his only safeguard and protection from the Population Police.

The little bunny went to go warn the other animals and hope that they would listen to what he had to say. This story represents the Holocaust because The Terrible Things represent the Nazis. While all the other animals represent the people, and how they just stood by acting like nothing was happening. They were perfectly capable of doing something, they just did not want to. Moving on to, the author used some positive, negative, and repetitive words.

The Nazis are “relocating” the Jews. The Jews think that the “relocating” will be great because they will have food and be free. But the Jackboots, men that torture and are in charge of Jews, are actually taking the Jews out to kill them, or put them in “oven.” Every Jew thinks the old man is crazy, but he was genuinely foreshadowing the truth. In the end, Misha escapes the ovens and he is the ultimate survivor.

Milkweed was wrote by Jerry Spinelli. This is a story of an orphan in 1930s Poland who is very naïve and knows nothing. Not who he is, who other people are, nothing of the world around him. He knows only that he is small and fast and able to snatch food right from under the noses of the people it belongs to. He is eventually taken in by a gang of orphan kids, and becomes the special ward of one in particular, Uri.

Prisioners are robbed of their identity by being tattooed with numbers that correspond to their names. The SS Officers had lost the respect of all their morals. When the Germans rescued the Jews from Buchenwald, the Jews are hospitalized for the

Also, the deer symbolizes being helpful and not knowingly hurting anything, I try to be helpful and I don’t try to hurt anybody that I care about. The difference between the deer and myself is the deer is known to be uncaring about what people say to try to convince them to do something, but I usually listen to people that I trust like my friends if they say that I should do something else. Next, I love to blend into my surroundings like a deer and watch to observe details that a large number of people don’t notice. Finally, I’m like the deer in that I don’t become angered easily and I try

Someone 's identity defines who they are. There are no two identities that are the same. , Everyone is unique in different ways. Finding oneself may take time and might not be exactly what you are expecting. In the novel “Milkweed” by Jerry Spinelli, the protagonist Jack assumes many identities but ultimately does not know who he is.