How does milkweed by jerry spinelli end

Milgrom invites Misha to celebrate Hanukkah with the family for the first time, saying that Jewish people must never forget how to be happy.

Janina, however, is growing despondent. Misha cheers her up by searching the entire city for an egg just for her. One day, Uri unexpectedly appears in the ghetto and warns Misha that trains are coming to deport the ghetto residents. He urges Misha to run and to never to board a train, no matter what. Misha warns his friends and family about the coming deportations. Most people mock him, but Mr. Milgrom quietly warns Misha to flee Warsaw with Janina.

Misha realizes that Mr. One night, Misha and Janina struggle to reenter the ghetto after smuggling—the usual holes have been filled in. When they finally squeeze through an open gate by the train station, they discover that Mr. Milgrom is gone. Janina runs toward the trains that are about to depart, and Misha loses track of her in the crowd.

Misha thinks that, while airborne, she looks as graceful as a milkweed seed. The Nazi has a familiar voice and red hair—just before the Nazi shoots him, Misha recognizes the young man as Uri.

When Misha eventually regains consciousness, he finds that his ear has been shot off. The trains are gone. Misha follows the tracks out of the ghetto, hoping to catch up with Janina. Misha wanders down the tracks for a long time, hungry, in pain, and hallucinating. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

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Username is too similar to your e-mail address. I want to tutor on Studypool I'm here to get homework help I already have an account. Password lock. Remember me. I forgot my password I don't have an account. He steals food for the poor Jewish orphans. He does not regard himself as a poor orphan, even though he has no memory of his parents, because Uri makes up a romantic story about a huge Gypsy family from Russia to give him a history and a name, Misha Pilsudski.

He is adopted by a once well-off Jewish family who give him their family name to replace the made-up Gypsy name, and whose daughter, Janina, becomes his "sister". He knows that invisibility is his greatest asset as a thief who sneaks out of the ghetto into the curfew of Warsaw by night to smuggle food, and yet he so wants to be noticed.

He longs to believe in angels and oranges and the apocryphal cow of the ghetto. The brutality of the world he inhabits leaves marks on him, stunts his growth, loses him an ear and everyone he knows, but even the most violent experiences do not eradicate his fascination with that world. This, and the help of Uri, are what eventually leads to his survival. Milkweed is fresh and vital. The writing is vivid and as funny as it is uncompromising in its depiction of the horrors of life for less-than-humans under the Jackboots.

The banter between the street boys is especially strong - wit and childishness and high philosophy whisked together with the lightest of touches. Sentimentality is successfully avoided and the whole rings of authentic experience while also bearing the marks of a fine piece of storytelling.

He tells his story to anyone who will listen. Meanwhile, the Nazis are tightening their control around the city of Warsaw and targeting Jews. They impose a curfew, and one night while Misha is delivering stolen food to his friends, a Nazi shoots at him, cutting off his earlobe. Misha is lucky to be alive, but it doesn't deter him from continuing to take risks. Another one of Misha's friends is the head of an orphanage, Dr.

Korcak based on the real Janusz Korczak , who selflessly cares for many orphaned children. Misha helps them as well by bringing them food and coal that he steals. In fall of , all the Jews in Warsaw were ordered to be forcibly removed to a Ghetto.

The Ghetto, however, only made up 2. At its height, the Warsaw Ghetto forcibly imprisoned , Jewish men, women, and children. In the story, Misha, his orphan friends, Janina, her kind and soft spoken father, Mr. Milgrom, who is a pharmacist, her dear mother, and her feisty Uncle Shepsel are forced from their home and into the Ghetto. Korczak and the orphaned children are also forced into the Ghetto.

Misha describes how everyone files into the Ghetto bringing whatever belongings they can carry. The Ghetto has deplorable conditions. Nazi soldiers terrorize and beat the inhabitants in surprise midnight raids. There is very little food and people are starving and dying in the streets. The conditions are filthy and everyone is crammed into such a small space that disease spreads quickly. Every day, Misha sees new bodies covered in newspapers. Adults are forced to work doing hard labor.

Janina's mother becomes ill and eventually passes away. Yet, through it all, Misha remains innocently resilient. He sneaks out every night in search of food and smuggles it back to Janina and her family. He also delivers food to the orphans and Dr.

Smuggling is extremely dangerous. One tragic day, Misha sees young Olek hung with a sign around his neck declaring that he was killed because he was a smuggler.

And, yet, without the food that Misha steals by sneaking in and out of a hole in the Ghetto wall "two bricks wide", they would surely starve. Milgrom "adopts" Misha into the family and treats him like a son.

Janina and Misha are also very close and do everything together. Misha describes how she acts like his little sister, mimicking everything he does, even smuggling.

Janina joins Misha on his dangerous nightly excursions as she, too, is small enough to sneak through the hole. One day, Janina and Misha are playing in the Ghetto when they spy something growing in the rubble. It is milkweed, white and soft and wispy. Janina believes it must be an angel.

It gives them a sense of hope that a plant can grow in the destroyed rubble of the Ghetto, that somehow, life perseveres. After living in the destitute and wretched conditions of the Ghetto for about a year and a half, Misha's friend Uri comes to warn him that he must escape.

Uri says that when Misha sneaks out to smuggle at night, he must run and keep running.