Critical Thinking Question: Social Action

                    Is this story fair? Why or why Not?
 
         I'm recently reading a book called Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. The book is about a group of kids who are all homeless but they all act like a  family. The main character is Misha Pilsudski, he's a Gypsy, he's short, he lives in the streets of Warsaw, and for a living he steals food from other people and runs. Misha Pilsudski has been called, Jew, Stopthief, and filthy son of Abraham. When he saw a Nazi, he wanted to be one too and where Jackboots just like them but when you're homeless and everyone thinks you're a Jew it's better to be nobody.
       At first Misha Pilsudski didn't know anything about himself he didn't even know his own name he just called himself what everyone else called him: Stopthief, but then Uri, one of the homeless guys, took Misha with him and he gave Misha a name and a story. Uri also had to change Misha so people didn't think he was Jew. Misha didn't even know what a Jew was until Uri and the guys explained it to him they said, "This is a Jew." He pointed to himself. "That's a Jew." He pointed to the others. "That's a Jew" He pointed to a horse. "That's a Jew" he pointed to the straw in the horse flop. He held out a small brown insect, "this is a jew". "A Jew is an animal. A Jew is a bug. A Jew is less than a bug." He threw the insect into the flop. "A Jew is that".
     Misha then learned that Jews were treated very badly and that's why they all had to try to look as if they were the same as everyone else, as if they weren't Jews. Misha was always glad that he wasn't Jew but he didn't understand that some people didn't like Gypsy people either. While living with Uri, Misha learned how to take care of himself and how to get into less trouble. Even though Misha tried his hardest to look invisible he couldn't, he always found a way to get himself shot, or hurt. One day when Misha was with his friends  the Nazis came to their "home" and they took them to the "ghetto", that's where all the Jews were being taken, except Uri. When Misha got to the ghetto and he saw people dead on the streets everyday he started to change and he even decided to be nobody.
     I think that this is unfair because there were a lot of Jews in Warsaw and it's not okay to treat them differently just because of their religion. It's also not fair for everyone that lives in Warsaw to be controlled by the Nazis and it's not fair for them to not want to go outside because their scared or for them to not be able to see who they are because they're scared. The main reason that I don't think it's fair is because they're all humans and they're all the same and Misha's friends don't believe in Angels, or mothers, or anything and that's not fair that there childhood is being taken away from them and they have to take care of themselves. They basically have to grow up fast just so they can take care of themselves. I thinks that this is very sad and the saddest part is that Misha didn't even know his own name, he doesn't remember who his mother was or what she looked like and if it wasn't for Uri, Misha wouldn't be alive.