One of the main themes of Milkweed is that human nature is weird and confusing. For example, one night Misha witnesses kristallnacht and reflects, “What I really feared was being strapped to a horse backward with my face bouncing in and out of the horse’s tail.” (Spinelli, 38) As Jewish stores, homes and establishments were being torn apart by German rioters, Misha watched Jews suffer public humiliation. One man was tied to a horse as his face hung over the back end of the animal. The next day, Misha begins to worry that he may wind up in that man’s same spot because he is confused as to why the rioters are attacking people. When he learns that the rioters were harassing people because they were Jewish, he is still bewildered as to why
