Milkweed Vs Book

In Milkweed, “Until Then I had Only Read About These Things in Books” and “The Guard” are about children experiencing life with the Nazis in the Holocaust. Readers can clearly see, that they are some similarities but also some differences. Some similarities that the two excerpts and the poem have in common. They all have first hand account (their when it first happened). In Milkweed they author states “ I gasped aloud: Jackboots!. “They were magnificent. There were men attached to them but it was if the boots were wearing the men.” In Milkweed MIsha physically saw the Jackboots were interacting with the Jackboots. From, “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Thing in Books” the author states “We could not make a sound, and all we would hear was the sound of people searching, their footsteps, their knocking on the door.” But in the Milkweed Misha physically reacted to the Jackboot but not in this story she\he was trying to survive instead …show more content…
In Milkweed the author states “Look, I said, the Jackboots! I thought he would cheer, but he did not. He stood behind me with his hands on my shoulders” This shows that Misha was not afraid of the Jackboots and he was happy. But in the poem it states “ I looked down at my feet. Step, step. Thump, thump, my heart is racing. But my feet walk as if they have nothing to fear” This shows that she was very scared and she didn’t want to pass by the guard to get to her Aunt Sara’s apartment. In Milkweed Misha interacted with the guard and in “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” she/he did not interacted with the guard. In Milkweed MIsha says “I’m not a Jew, I told him. I held up my yellow stone. I’m a Gypsy. My reply delighted. Ah,so, a Gypsy, he said” Misha wasn’t afraid he was talking to him like a brother not someone that was going to kill