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Milkweed By Jerry Spinelli

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Destiny
English 1301 Section No. 60
Mrs. Etherington
December 12, 2014
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli: Final Discussion Question #9

The story Hansel and Gretel remind Misha about holocaust because of Janina. Hansel and Gretel is about a brother and sister on who was left out in the woods and runs into a house that is supposed to take out of their hunger because its decorated full with candy. Its like an sign of hope, but instead inside they meet an old women who wants to get rid of them. She tell them all kinds of torture that she wants to do to them, and tries to trick them into the oven. One of the children finally understands what she wants to do and tricks her into getting in instead and the witch dies. Misha gets upset about this and rips the book. Rather than the witch dying in this case Janina did and Misha did not consider her as a witch. …show more content…

Being a Jew is not something most people would be proud of during the time of the Holocaust, yet Misha was taking pride of it because he was finally part of something. Janina and Misha did everything together even smuggle. Janina was fully accepting with Misha and did not mind him at all, she was a privileged child unlike Misha. While they were in the ghetto Misha was helping her family out. This was probably his first ever friendship with someone Janina was super special to him. When she was found in the oven it was a moment of why her. In Hansel and Gretel it is the witch is the one who is killed in the oven. The witch is like the bad guy in this particular situation. In Janina's case she was a Jew and the Jews during the holocaust are seen as the bad guys toward the Nazi party. The Jews were seen as the bad guys when they really were not. Not all villains live at the end but in this case the nazi army did, unfortunately Janina did. To Misha, Janina did not seem like a “witch”. He upset that she was the one who had to go into the

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