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Beginning of the book:
During the first chapters of the book only a few traits and quirks about him are revealed, we discover that he:
• Is a gypsy
• A thief by trade
• Is a bit of a simpleton
• Is Quiet
• Doesn’t know much about the world.
When he meets Uri on the street and the other boys later on he learns a lot about himself and the world he lives in, Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the soldiers or Jackboots as they are called throughout the book.
Conflicts and challenges throughout the book with resolutions:
• The war poses a big problem for him and the boys, slowly the abundance of food and bread bags that flowed out of the shopping bags of rich women in fancy dress, thinned not leaving much for them to steal, this happens slowly throughout
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He only stops believing this story once he finds someone to call family.
Relationship with Janina:
• Whilst Misha is running from a jackboot he comes to a garden where he sits to rest, in the garden is a tomato plant with two red ripe tomatoes he plucks them from the tree and eats them, when he leaves he sees a girl watching him from the house.
• He returns the next day only to find a no tomatoes, only arrows which lead him to a piece of candy. When leaving he ends up speaking to the little girl who was watching him, she invites him to her birthday party. This is the beginning of their long friendship.
• At her party he ends up stealing the cake and running away, he feels bad so he steals a new one and leaves it on her doorstep the next day.
• Every day he would try to steal two loafs of bread a day and would leave one on Janina’s door step, soon things started to be left for him in return. One day when he goes to drop of some food, he doesn’t find Janina and her family but I jackboot and

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