The other one is a boy named Yuerk, he is older then Jacob. Since Jacob is Jewish they have to change his name so the Nazis don’t find out. Jacob wasn’t too fond of changing his name he liked it. It made him who he was but Alex told him these words “nobody can change who you are but you need to change you’re name to survive” so Jacob’s new name is Genyek. The Roslans are always living on the edge of povierty or just enough food to live.
t English ISU Prologue Milkweed: Newbery Medal-winning author Jerry Spinelli (Maniac McGee, Stargirl) paints a vivid picture of the streets of the Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a curious, kind, heartbreakingly naïve orphan with many names. His name is Stopthief when people shout "Stop! Thief!" as he flees with stolen bread. Or it's Jew, "filthy son of Abraham," depending on who's talking to him.
From the very beginning Nick shows how Gatsby was materialistic “he took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before daisy” (Fitzgerald 98). As he was trying to impress Daisy, his love materialistic things began to grow. He was always trying to live up to daisy standards. This materialistic thing is what made Gatsby desperate which led to his destruction or corruption. This corruption was what Tom revealed to Daisy “ he and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side street drug stores here in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter” (Fitzgerald 141).
At 14, Capone started a fist fight with a teacher, was expelled, and never returned to school again. He ruled with a fist few crossed him for the fear of their life. Unemployed people did not care that the money he gave them was made illegally, to them money was money. Capone also supplied booze to the poor. Throughout the Depression, Capone helped people struggle through the tough times by supplying them with food, money, clothing and alcohol.
Jess isn’t safe at school, nobody wants to talk to him and he was terribly raped by school football players. Jess wasn’t safe while working in the factory, because everybody wanted to find something from him and tease him as a joke. The time they found he had “close relationship” with another female worker, Jess was asked to leave the factory. Jess was always the target of police men when they wash up gay bars. He most likely got beaten up or his life can be at risk.
That made Daniel furious so he hurled the bowl at the Romans face and dashed away but while he was running he got nicked with a spear and hid in house for a while. He knew he had to get to Joel’s otherwise he would not live. When he got to Joel’s he passed out and they hid him for weeks and then when he got better he told Joel about being a spy. Secretly he pretended not to be able to walk but practiced it when Joel and Thacia were not around and one night when he thought he was good enough he left and made it back to the base of the mountain. From there Samson carried him up the hill
Link refers to his origin as "up north" to avoid revealing his birth place. After a few bad days of being homeless he meets Ginger, a streetwise person who has been homeless for quite some time. But Link does not trust him entirely, because every time, when Ginger leaves him, Link feels scared and guesses that Ginger goes to his real mates. Shelter Shelter is a former sergeant-major who is on a mission to kill all of the homeless people of London, because they he considers they 'make the place look untidy.' He means too that there is nobody who does anything against them.
They run by a young boy crying and the boy releases his father's hand and wants to help him but the father picked his boy and ran away. Later that night they are camping away from the road they are following and the boy is upset at his father for not helping the boy but his father explains on how it would end up hurting them in the long run with food and such. They go to sleep. Pg. 90 - 107 They are walking down the road early in the morning
James is Ruth's son. He grew up in “orchestrated chaos” with his eleven sibling sin the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. By digging deep into his mothers past, and his own past, he hoped to find understanding of his racial, religious, and social identity. James was always embarrassed of his mother's whiteness, because it shows her differences from his peers and their parents. As James grew older, he began to accept his mother more easily.
He abuses Huck verbally as well as physically and soon shows that he is a brutal drunkard. After his father keeps him locked inside a cabin in the woods, Huck decides to escape and uses a pig’s blood to fake his own death. This act indicates that Huck’s moral development is still at its beginning and that he doesn’t care about the emotions of other people. This attitude will change later when he plays a trick on Jim on the river. But for now, while he is carrying out his plan, he doesn’t even think about what all his friends and family will go through when they hear about his death.