Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed

In the book "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli, it takes us back to all the way to World War 2 as it beautifully protests a story of a naive main character who was once called "stopthief" when the narrator was first introduce in the novel. It is a book of highly recommend for its unique formatting and its story telling about a naive boy who was lucky enough to be surrounded by such great people in a world where the Germans are set out to be a really manipulative human being. This can be seen as to when no one really knew such thing like a war was happening and how the German's manage to make Jewish in charge of other Jews, but through all that the main character, Misha Pilsudski was trying to find his identity and what to really believe in. …show more content…
So, as he looks at this as his motto, he thought that those people without the "societal norms" should be eliminated from mankind. It is always a question as to how the war was not known about until many years after and how the Jews never suspected in the beginning how improper they are being treated. States from chapter 6 "There was a man in a long black coat on his hands and knees... He was dipping his beard into the water and scrubbing the sidewalk with the beard." Not only this, but later on the Germans even manage to get Jews working for them to punish other Jews like themselves, as it is seen in the novel in chapter 21 mentioning about the flood "...each had a whistle and a wooden club as long as my arm and of course, being Jews, they wore armbands." Through the author's choice of wording m, he really makes you question about how ironic it is. Not only were the Jews being naive letting the Germans take advantage of them, they better yet should have looked around them and see that they are being treated as nothing important as the German didn't even brother to make and effort or waste more money to kill them, but rather thought it would be better to let them die of