What are some quotes in Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli ext?

Answer 1

"I think of all the voices that have told me who I have been, the names I've had. Call me theif. Call me stupid. Call me gypsy. Call me Jew. Call me one-eared Jack. I don't care. empty-handed victims once told me who I was. Then Uri told me. Then an armband. Then an Immigration officer. And now this little girl in my lap, this little girl whose call silences the trampling Jackboots. Her voice will be the last. I was. Now I am. I am . . . Poppynoodle." - Misha (page 208: last paragraph)

"Real mothers don't die" - Ferdi (page 88)

"We don't exist" - Ferdi (page 88)

"So Himmler-Number Two Boss Jackboot, Master of All Jews Not to Mention Gypsies-was a one-eyed chicken. At that moment, I began losing respect for Jackboots. I no longer wanted to be one." - Misha (page 117)

"Don't look guilty" - Uri (page 123:WHAT PARAGRAPH??????)

"When you're nothing, you're free to believe in anything.." -Uri (page 49)

what are the definitions of the qutes?

Answer 2

"You are what you are" -page 22

"Misha Pilsudski…" I kept saying "Misha Pilsudski… Misha Pilsudski" Page 31

"Misha Pilsudski!!"-Page 41

"I thought of the other boys. I hoped they were safe." Page 144

"I never saw Doctor Korczak eat." Page 147

"Misha, Misha, is it not a beautiful day." I looked around. It looked like any other day to me." Page 148

" I'm not you're mother" - Page 149

"Uncle Shepsel stayed back in the room" Page 150

"Children! Children! Come with me! We go to the Candy Mountain! Follow me! Follow me!"- Page 150

"Janina pulled something from her pocket. It was a milkweed pod. She must have plucked it from the milkweed pod in the alley. It looked empty. She blew into it. Three or four puffs rose into the air. They sailed up and out of the grave, past Mr. Milgrom, and into the gray sky and the black falling bombs." Page 151

" Mr. Milgrom pushed his pill cabinet and the table to the other side of the room. To the people he said, "You can have the mattress" [Mrs. Milgrom's]- page 152

"Real mothers don't die"- Page 88

"I think of all the voices that have told me who I have been, the names I've had. Call me thief. Call me stupid. Call me gypsy. Call me Jew. Call me one-eared Jack. I don't care. Empty-handed victims once told me who I was. Then Uri told me. Then an armband. Then an immigration officer. And now this little girl in my lap, this little girl whose call silences the trampling Jackboots. Her voice will be the last. I was. Now I am. I am . . . Poppynoodle." Page 204

"We don't exist"- page 88

"So Himmler-Number Two Boss Jackboot, Master of All Jews Not to Mention Gypsies-was a one-eyed chicken. At that moment, I began losing respect for Jackboots. I no longer wanted to be one."-page 117

"Don't look guilty."- page 123

""When you're nothing, you're free to believe in anything."- Page 49

Answer 3

1. "They are what is left of all the others. We are what is left of them."
2. "And so we sailed on, higher than anyone had ever flown, to a place I did not know existed until that moment. And the air was crisp and cold, and clear, and there was no more war, no more walls, no more starving, no more shouting, no more searching for a safe place to pee."
3. "It's like we're all in a great big soup together. But to them, I'm not even a pickle. I'm just a crumb."

Answer 4

milkweed is a symbol. it symbolizes hope and happiness, like how it is the only green thing growing in the warsaw ghetto.