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Title: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli ISBN: 0-375-81374-8 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Milkweed- An exceptional novel
Comment: Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, was an interesting and vivid novel about a young boy with many names, whos only memory lies in a yellow stone on a necklace around his neck. The setting of this book, Warsaw in Poland, really describes the terrible conditions all of the people living as a Jew or Gypsy during the Holocaust. The characters are are very different and special in their very own way. Misha, the main character in the story, is timid at the beginning and later is courageous and bold. Uri, who is his companion, is a very quiet and self-centered character. The last thing that really stood out in this book was the writers style. He writes with a very strange format and it is confusing at first, but later becomes stands out in a good way. Overall, the book potrayed the time o the Holocaust through a young boy perfectly and it was one of the best books I have EVER read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Holocaust Story
Comment: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli was the best, most riveting novel that I have read for a long time. The story is told from the viewpoint of a small, naïve, orphan boy living in Warsaw, Poland during the holocaust. The boy, who adopts the name of Misha, doesn't remember anything of his past. He meets an orphan named Uri who teaches him how to live in the city as a thief. When the Jackboots invade Warsaw, Misha is mistaken as a Jew, and put in the Ghetto. In the Ghetto, Misha lives with his friend Janina's family, who soon adopt him as their own son. When the Jews are finally taken to the camps, Misha escapes. He grows up and moves to America, living with the memories of the injustices done to him and other Jews during the holocaust.
The narrator's point of view, and the choppy, odd way in which it is written sets Milkweed apart from other books. It gives an image of the holocaust that is not normally seen, one where the person is being prejudiced against, and is still optimistic and oblivious to what is going on around him. The book is amazingly powerful, but in a different way than most novels about the holocaust. There are not horrible descriptions of the torture being inflicted on the Jews, leaving the reader sick to their stomach; instead the horrible events of the time are woven into the story along with humor, happiness, optimism, and naiveté. This gives the novel an under the surface seriousness and power, while still being funny and enjoyable to read. Jerry Spinelli doesn't make any attempt to explain what is happening as well, leaving the reader in the same position as Misha. This makes Milkweed somewhat confusing, but more interesting. Milkweed was an enjoyable, powerful, emotion-filled novel, told from a new point of view, and I believe that it is not only Jerry Spinelli's best, but also one of the greatest novels for young adults or for any age.
Rating: 5
Summary: Milkweed SUPEAR NOVEL
Comment: I thought it was a good book because it is an interesting story of a boy who does not know anything about himself during the period of the WWII holocaust. Misha the main character.has no idea where he came from or what his name is. He is befriended by a group of Jewish orphans who steal food for a living. After a while he meets a little Jewish girl, named Janina. When her family is forced to move to the ghetto, Misha goes to live with them. Just as everyone is starving, there are deportations (to the concentration camps but the Jews don't know where they are going) Janina is taken to the concentration camps, but Misha escapes to America, to tell his story.
I liked this novel very much, because it told a story that is still in some existence today, racism. The Holocaust is no longer a problem for Jews and gypsies today, but they still face some discrimination. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good story with strong characters. Several emotions I experienced are, anger, sadness, happiness, excitement and relief. This is a very well written novel because the novel is written because it is told in the perspective of a little boy who is clueless to what is happening in the time period.
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