Reading Response #5-Milkweed

Although I am still not finished with the book Eggs by Jerry Spinelli, I will be writing about a different book. It's called Milkweed. Actually, this book was written by Jerry Spinelly also! 

• Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist? Are their roles clearly defined?

The book I'm reading, Milkweed, is based around the Holocaust. The protagonists in this intense novel are DEFINATELY defined. The protagonists are the Jews, who wanted to have equal rihts and freedom and be treated with respect. The angatonist(s) are the Nazis (or Jackboots as the characters in the book tend to call them), who wanted to dominate the Jews and treat them like dirt. Their roles are, of course, clearly deifned because it is totally obvious the Nazis do not like the Jews; they made all of them move to the ghetto, then built a wall around them so it was impossible to get out. Also, they starved them half (and also fully) to death so that they could get rid of all of the "dirty sons of Abraham". Lucky for the orphan Jews and a six year old girl named Janina, a young boy was small enough to fit through a gap in the wall merely two bricks big. He could slip through the wall unseen at night, pick up some food from the trash area of where the Nazis were staying, then go back through the wall and deliver the food to them. I personally think that is very courageous because if he got caught and identified outside of the wall even though he wasn't an actual Jew he would have been immediately killed.  Although he was not Jewish in reality, the Nazis wouldn't care. They would dispose of him at once. That is the scary part.