Imagine what it would be like to have to steal and run everyday just to survive at only eight years old. Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, is a novel that tells the story of a young gypsy boy who gets stuck in the middle of WW2. He went through many struggles while trying to grow up on his own in the ghettos. This little boy looks up to the “Jackboots”. He wants to be a Jackboot, but little does he know the Jackboots are actually the horrible Nazi’s, will he ever realize that the Jackboots are bad people or will he continue wanting to be a “Jackboot”?
I climbed onto the beautiful black horse with the golden tassels and round and round we went. I went from horse to horse until I think I must have ridden them all. I rode them forward and backward.
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This was demonstrated when the author wrote about when Misha felt joy for the first time in a long time. The carousel was something that was important to Misha because growing up in WW2 was scary and depressing for the not only children but the adults to. Joy was something that Jewish and Gypsy people never had, they watched the Germans enjoy everything.
The author uses the narrative voice of Misha. This impacted the book because Misha was the one telling his story in first person point of view. On the first day in the book, Misha was telling the reader. “I am running. That's the first thing I remember. I carry something, my arm curled around it, hugging it to my chest. Bread, of course” (Spinelli 1). This quote is important because it's the first thing that Misha remembers. Whenever a character is talking there has to be a setting.
The setting of this novel is mostly in the ghettos. The ghetto is an important place in the plot because it is where most of the story takes place. At night, on the sidewalk, Misha asked Uri. “I shaded my eyes. ‘Where are they going?’ I said to Uri. ‘The ghetto’ he said. ‘What's the ghetto?’ ‘Where the damned live’ Though the people were quiet, there was much noise behind them. There was whistling and cheering and breaking glass”. (Spinelli 70) This quote is important because this is when the Jews are being relocated. While this was happening, Misha was confused and didn't really understand what