Uri's Point of View

            I can’t believe the things Mischa does sometimes. Today he started marching with a bunch of Jews on the way to the ghetto! Then he started to give them all bites of his sausage. That’s another thing about this kid; he never keeps his food to himself. He steals twice the food, and then goes to give half of it to some Janina girl. Mischa goes out of his way to feed other people despite the risks! Also he just runs around doing risky things because he thinks it’s fun. For example he used to be absolutely obsessed with riding a merry go round. So he would sneak out night and go and stare at it for a few hours, with all of those Jackboot people walking around. One time in broad daylight he just skipped everyone in line so that he could ride it. Sometimes it feels like this kid just wants to die!  

Point of View

     I believe that Mischa may be a little bit unreliable. First of all Mischa is a young kid, he doesn’t exactly see and remember everything that goes on around him. Also even if he remembered and absorbed everything that was happening, he probably wouldn’t understand much of it. He doesn’t understand much of what’s happening NOW, for example when he’s walking with other Jewish people to the ghetto; he begins to talk to everyone. Also he thinks that the ghetto will be an absolutely wonderful place, because there are just so many people going to it, including the “Jackboots”. Mischa also wants to be a “Jackboot.” He doesn’t at the moment understand what the “Jackboots” really do. He doesn’t understand who they work for anything. So what else doesn’t he understand?