{"id":16766,"date":"2025-10-21T22:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:14:05","slug":"independent-reading-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/independent-reading-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent reading book [IRJE #2]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">S: At the very start of milkweed, we meet the narrator when he is just a little kid living on the streets of Warsaw. He&#8217;s a complete orphan, with no memory of his past, and he doesn&#8217;t even know his own name, He&#8217;s totally invisible until he meets a clever older boy named Uri, who takes him under his wing. In a world that is already becoming scary and confusing, Uri gives the boy his first real identity. He tells him who and what he is.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0&#8220;I am a Jew.&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Spinelli 7,<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0This quote is so powerful because it shows how someone can desperately want an identity, any identity, just to feel like they exist, the narrator doesn&#8217;t understand the politics or the danger of being Jewish in Warsaw at that time, For him, the word &#8220;Jew&#8221; isn&#8217;t about religion or heritage,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>it&#8217;s a gift from Uri<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a name for himself when he had none, he&#8217;s just happy to finally have a box to check, to know what to call himself<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s heartbreaking because we, as the readers, know the terrible fate that awaits jews in that place and time, but he&#8217;s just an innocent kid who is finally happy to belong to something, this moment makes his journey so much more emotional because we see him embracing a label that will put a target on his back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>quote ( \u201cI\u2019m a jew\u201d pag 7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S: At the very start of milkweed, we meet the narrator when he is just a little kid living on the streets of Warsaw. He&#8217;s a complete orphan, with no memory of his past, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16779,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions\/16779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}