Power Symbolism In Milkweed By Jerry Spinelli

Power symbolized In the book milkweed, Jerry Spinelli uses symbolism do to describe a needs of a character and how they learn from their experiences. Misha lived in Warsaw Poland during World War ll . Misha uses looks when describing power he comes across. Boots was a symbol of power in the concept of looks. Misha learns throughout the story that looks are deceiving when it came to meeting powerful people. Nerveless, Misha assummed the leader of the jackboots would look all powerfull. Misha saw a jackboot that looked like a ‘perfect German’, and assumed that he was the top-ranked jackboot was Himmler; he only saw the good looking one as powerful. “I knew how to prove