Q: What does Milkweed, the plant, symbolize in the novel Milkweed?
Boris, my only groupmate's answer: It symbolizes the fragility of Misha's identity because Milkweed is fragile.
Answer: Hope and survival
Q: What is the greatest threat to survival, outside of the Nazis, to the jews living in the ghetto?
Boris's Answer: The Nazis (Obviously listening to the question) and lack of resources.
A: The Jewish populace living in ghettos had very little ways to acquire food, thus starvation was the biggest problem.
Q: What does Misha teach to the Milgroms about survival?
Boris's Answer: Martial arts (?)
A: That being invisible is the best form of protection.
Q: How do Misha's views of the Jackboots (Nazis), their parades and the war, change as the story progresses?
Boris's Answer: Misha starts viewing the Nazis as evil mass-murderers.
A: At the beginning, Misha, wants to be a Jackboot, which we know from the many statements he made. Later, he views them as needlessly cruel.
Q: What did you think of Janina and Uncle Shep after they ate the rats? Was it justified?
Boris's Answer: It was disgusting but justified because they were starving.
A: I saw how desperate and starved they were, and I found it justified.
Boris summarized the story to me, the only audience.
Q: What is the greatest threat to survival, outside of the Nazis, to the jews living in the ghetto?
Boris's Answer: The Nazis (Obviously listening to the question) and lack of resources.
A: The Jewish populace living in ghettos had very little ways to acquire food, thus starvation was the biggest problem.
Q: What does Misha teach to the Milgroms about survival?
Boris's Answer: Martial arts (?)
A: That being invisible is the best form of protection.
Q: How do Misha's views of the Jackboots (Nazis), their parades and the war, change as the story progresses?
Boris's Answer: Misha starts viewing the Nazis as evil mass-murderers.
A: At the beginning, Misha, wants to be a Jackboot, which we know from the many statements he made. Later, he views them as needlessly cruel.
Q: What did you think of Janina and Uncle Shep after they ate the rats? Was it justified?
Boris's Answer: It was disgusting but justified because they were starving.
A: I saw how desperate and starved they were, and I found it justified.
Boris summarized the story to me, the only audience.
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