Milkweed (Literary Luminary_Nina) #5

This week my group and I read 140 pages out of 208. My job for this blog post was to be the Literary Luminary.  Under you will see the paragraphs/sentences I chose to include.

1. "They came from many places, many streets, but they were all going in the same direction. Little children pulled wagons heaped high with toys and pots and books. Grown- ups pulled wobbling carts of furniture and clothes and pictures and rugs. It seemed they have emptied their entire houses into wagons and were pulled by horses, smaller carts by people. The horses and the people looked alike, plodding, eyes to the ground, leaning forward against the weight of their loads. The horses did not wear armbands, yet they too were clearly Jewish!"

Page: 69
Pargarpah: 3

The Reason I chose this paragraph: I chose this paragraph because I felt it was important to mention when Misha "contributed", so to speak,  his first parade not realizing it wasn't a parade at all but the Jews making their way towards the Ghetto where they were to live from now on. He did not realize this important fact in the "parade", because he was so eager to participate in one ever since he saw his first Jackboot parade with Uri by his side.

2. "Janina's father took something from a drawer, put it into a little envelope, and gave it to the man. The man pulled an apple from his pocket. He looked about to cry. "I wish-"
"Go," said Janina's father, ushering the man out. "No need. Go."
The man reached back to touch Mr. Milgrom. "Shalom."
"Shalom."
Uncle Shepsel shut and bolted the door. He wagged a finger in the face of Janina's father. "By tomorrow the whole place will know. We'll be overrun."
Mr. Milgrom pulled in the wings, and the chest of drawers become a plain looking box again. "What would you like me to do? Save it all for ourselves? He gave me a perscription. I did my job."
"There'll be nothing left in a week. They'll clean you out."
"Maybe we'll be out in a week."

Page: 77 to 78
Paragraph: (on page 77) 7 (and on page 78) 1

The Reason I chose this paragraph: I chose this paragraph because it shows how being hopeful, and kid in these kinds of situations pays off. Ones where there is nothing you can do to help it, but be a good person and try to make others experience more pleasant, because then others will do the same to you.

3. I dragged myself up the stairs with the Milgrimas. Uncle Shepsel and Mrs. Milgrom performed a groaning duet that grew louder with each step. I followed them into the room. I wanted only to sleep. I collapsed onto the floor.
When I woke I thought I was back in the courtyard under the blinding lights, but it was only the sun in the window. And Uncle Shepsel, propped on his elbow, was pointing at me and saying, "Why is he sleeping here? He smells."
"I regret to inform you," said Mr. Milgrom, "that you are not a rose garden yourself these days"
Uncle Shepsel pounded the floor. "He's not family."
Mr. Milgram looked straight at him. " He is now."

Page: 99
Pargarpah: 6

The Reason I chose this paragraph: I chose this paragraph because Misha finally had a family to experience both the good and the bad moments in his life. Someone who will love him and he them. Also, Uri and the boys were somewhat considered his family as well because they took him in when nobody else didn't,  although they never really agreed upon anything except for living quarters.

4. By now the rest of the people were on the other side of the street, pretending they didn't see. Now the club was in Uri's hand and Big Henryk was just standing there watching, and that was when Uri conked the Flop on the top of his head. Just like that: thock! Like the sounds in the lineup. Now it was the Flop holding his head, wobbling about the sidewalk.

Page: 103
Paragraph: 2

The Reason I chose this paragraph: I chose this paragraph because it  shows how even though Uri is not the older brother of any of the boys, not only Misha, he is still protective of all of them. Furhtemore, he will gladly step in to help them when they are in trouble, even if it effects him in a negative way  as it did this time.

5. And now here he was, looming above me, smiling and kissing his club, and that was giving all the time I needed to get away- but I couldn't.  He had my foot pinned to the ground with his boot ( a scuffed, mud- caked, on - jacklike boot). I screamed in pain. He laughed. The club clattered to the street- he wasn't going to use it.  He was going to drown me in his belly. His meaty hands gripped my shoulders. I was dizzy with mint.

Page: 113 to 114
Paragraph: (on page 113) 5 (and on page 114) 1

The Reason I chose this paragraph: When Misha was in trouble this time he managed to get out on his own, although that was because Uri wasn't there at the time. If he were he would have, even, risked his life to safe Misha's because he cares for them in a deep way that only very few people can, and that to me is important and worth looking at twice.