In the beginning of this book, Milkweed, a boy named Stopthief. He didn’t know what his religion was and he was found by a man named Uri. Uri was a big man and smuggled food just like Stopthief. He took him in at his house which was a barber shop. He gave Stopthief a bath, a hair cut and a new name, Misha was what he was called. Misha was a wild boy and went out and found a caressel and wanted to ride it so bad. Then one day, there was a rucuss, a horse was gone from the caressel. The Jews got blamed and one got hung. When the ghetto was built all the Jews were taken into the ghetto and had to stay there. They had nothing but what they had brought with them. The ghetto was a sad place to live because the guards would hit you with their clubs if they say you doing something you shouldn’t. Misha and Janina had found a hole in the wall, and snuck out every night to smuggle food from the places that had food. Then, out of no where, Janina’s mother passed away. After that, the trains started coming everyone got worried, but there was a man talking about “candy mountain”. Janina LOVED trains and watched them every night. One after one the Jews boarded the trains and were gone. Until one day, the trains came again, but this time it was Misha’s and his families floor. Misha’s father had told them the night before, to run and keep running an never stop. But Janina wouldn’t leave, she wanted to go on the trains. Next thing you know, Misha was chasing after Janina in the crowd, she was trying to find her father. But Uri had started to fire his gun at him, he almost got hit by one of the bullets. After that insedent, Misha started looking for where the trains where heading. He started to work on a farm when a lady came up to him and asked where he was going and told him the new law. The war ended 4 years later and Misha didn’t know what to do with himself. He started selling stuff, but that didn’t work. He started telling stories about what he went through and that is how he met his wife he would have for 5 months. After she decided she wasn’t in love with him anymore, she kicked him out. But he noticed her stomach and asked if she was pregnant. Later on in his life he was working in a store and a little girl and a woman came to him and asked him what his name is. He told him and it turned out that it was his daughter and granddaughter. She hadn’t given her a middle name because she wanted her father to choose it. He chose Janina. Back at his daughters house, he asked if he could plant a milkweed in the back yard She went right out, and got one. Just for her daddy.
