Character Development Essay

Character Development Essay about Misha in Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli.

In the beginning Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Misha  didn’t have a name and he was stinky ,and filthy, and his clothes were dirty he didn’t remember his parents possibly even have had amnesia he lived alone and just lived where ever  he could find a place to stay didn’t have a job he was a young child not even a teenager yet but was close he had no food so he had to steal food and didn’t understand much of anything that was going on around him and there was a lot of war around him.

Misha changes throughout the story and he found some friends who he becomes as close as family with ,who mocked and tease him in the beginning but then helps him survive and tells him what he needs to do to not get in trouble he gave him a name he told who he was ,his friends  also helped him steal and they stole together they found places to stay ,and his friends also cleaned him up gave him a bath and cut his hair and  told him who to stay away from like forenstince the jackboots.

Misha meets Janine after she ketches him  stealing their tomatoes from them to survive so he and his friends can eat. But then misha returns to their house again because he loves hanging out with her and looking at her crystal clear shoe’s and then she starts give him different foods like potatoes that were in the ground  to long that were like candy. Misha then start stealing food for her like from the bakery. And misha gets invited to her birthday parties and he sees the fire o the candle and destroys the cake in fear of the fire on the birthday candles ,so he steals a bakery cake for her and he tells the story to his friend and his friend laughs with tears.

  Misha is like pony boy in the outsiders because Misha steal food and people look at him like a bad kid when he in reality steal because he is poor but he is a really caring kid who tries to save people from the holocaust, Just how pony boy tries to help little kids and steals because he is poor but he is a really great how he is helping kids and  people eventually start recognizing that.

 In conclusion mostly everyone except for maybe at least  2 Jews escaped from the holocaust but misha escapes on an American ship to America. Misha also talks a lot once he starts understanding stuff more and once he gets a lot more of great respect and where he has freedom of speech and he talks a lot so they made him a sales men who eventually got fired. Misha then gets married and has a divorce because of his outburst at night and his strange behavior  due to the holocaust. But then later in the years his daughter who he has never met shows him her  daughter his granddaughter, who doesn’t  have a middle name till his grandpa gives her one which her middle name is Janina named after misha’s old friend who went missing  not knowing if she ended up dying in the concentration camps or not ,and in the end he spend time with his granddaughter who he will tell her why her middle name is Janina in the near future.