Milkweed follows the story of a young orphan boy during the Holocaust. He finds out he is a gypsy but he hangs out with a bunch of jewish orphans. Thouhout the story, we follow the boy through all his stuggles from escaping the "jackboots" aka the Nazi's, to finding food to survive.
This helps me in understanding my big question by illustrating a life of a young boy who has nothing, not even a name for most of the book. You start to see the world from his eyes, how complicated he thinks it is, to what his morals and customs are when living on the street alone. You see a different side of life from our own comfortable lives in Boulder.
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