All Quiet Chapter Summaries
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 …show more content…
the book to where a lot of shops(mostly Jewish) have nothing on their shelves.
• Because of the presence of the jackboots and the bombings on the city, he and Uri have to find somewhere else to live, they never have a permanent living space after the barbershop, and they are constantly having to move around, often sleeping amongst the rubble. That is until he moves to the ghetto and even in the beginning he moves around with the boys but ends up staying with Janina and her family all the time, closer to the end of the book.
No Identity:
• At the very beginning of the book, he does not know his name, his family or even if he is Jewish, through the help of the boys they discover that he is in fact a gypsy, or at least that is what his necklace seems to suggest also when he hears this word for the first time in the book it seems to bring back faint memories of wagons.
• Shortly after the Nazi’s invade Poland Uri decides to give him a new identity seeing as they haven’t found out anything new about his past and doesn’t even have a name. In his new identity he is originally a Russian gypsy, with “seven brothers and five sisters” and a beloved “Speckled mare” Greta. His tale goes that he, new name, Misha, was separated from his family due to the bombing of their camps and the horrible polish farmers and is now in Warsaw as an orphan.
• He finds this new life story to be great and can’t help but tell everyone that he has 7 brothers and 5 sisters, it seems that he truly does believe that that was his life and he really did have a speckled mare named Greta.
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
his.
• The next time they meet is on the way to the ghetto where Misha ends up living with her and her family.
• During their time in the ghetto they become very close, Misha going as far as calling her his sister, she also smuggles with him. He often refers to her as being his ‘shadow’.
Ghetto:
• The Nazis decide that the Jews should no longer be able to live amongst those of a higher class and so they build a ghetto and force them to live there.
• The ghetto is very cramped and surrounded by a large stone wall that keeps the Jews in.
• Soon it is apparent that the ghetto is not the great place Misha first thought it would be, with food being scarce and the living conditions appalling he finds a way to get food. Smuggling.
• There was a hole in the stone wall, small but big enough for Misha, every night he would sneak out, without his armband, and goes hunting for thing to steal, throughout his time in the ghetto he becomes very good at this and know just the right places.
• The ghetto is also a place of death, everyday there are bodies under newspaper, and Jews killed by the jackboots, some just because they can others for ‘crimes’ such as smuggling.
• Nearer the end of the book they are told that they will be going on the trains to resettlements in the east but Janina father does not believe this is the case and asks that when Misha and Janina go out that night they don’t come back but Janina doesn’t want to leave her family and refuses to stay with Misha and returns to the ghetto, one night when they get back, people are being ushered on to the trains, they try to get away but she is thrown into the train and the door shut.
After the war:
• After the war Misha continues to steal to make a living and soon saves up enough money for a passage to America.
• He learns English and trys to pursue a sales career, in the end he gives up on selling the product and ends up ranting on the street about the ghetto and his life before America; a lot of people think he is crazy.
• Every day he goes on the streets to share his stories and one day he meets his wife to be. The marriage only lasted 5 months, the day she kicks him out he asks ‘are you pregnant?’ she doesn’t answer.
• Years later when his is working at the supermarket, his daughter finds him, he has a granddaughter.
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 …show more content…
the book to where a lot of shops(mostly Jewish) have nothing on their shelves.
• Because of the presence of the jackboots and the bombings on the city, he and Uri have to find somewhere else to live, they never have a permanent living space after the barbershop, and they are constantly having to move around, often sleeping amongst the rubble. That is until he moves to the ghetto and even in the beginning he moves around with the boys but ends up staying with Janina and her family all the time, closer to the end of the book.
No Identity:
• At the very beginning of the book, he does not know his name, his family or even if he is Jewish, through the help of the boys they discover that he is in fact a gypsy, or at least that is what his necklace seems to suggest also when he hears this word for the first time in the book it seems to bring back faint memories of wagons.
• Shortly after the Nazi’s invade Poland Uri decides to give him a new identity seeing as they haven’t found out anything new about his past and doesn’t even have a name. In his new identity he is originally a Russian gypsy, with “seven brothers and five sisters” and a beloved “Speckled mare” Greta. His tale goes that he, new name, Misha, was separated from his family due to the bombing of their camps and the horrible polish farmers and is now in Warsaw as an orphan.
• He finds this new life story to be great and can’t help but tell everyone that he has 7 brothers and 5 sisters, it seems that he truly does believe that that was his life and he really did have a speckled mare named Greta.
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
his.
• The next time they meet is on the way to the ghetto where Misha ends up living with her and her family.
• During their time in the ghetto they become very close, Misha going as far as calling her his sister, she also smuggles with him. He often refers to her as being his ‘shadow’.
Ghetto:
• The Nazis decide that the Jews should no longer be able to live amongst those of a higher class and so they build a ghetto and force them to live there.
• The ghetto is very cramped and surrounded by a large stone wall that keeps the Jews in.
• Soon it is apparent that the ghetto is not the great place Misha first thought it would be, with food being scarce and the living conditions appalling he finds a way to get food. Smuggling.
• There was a hole in the stone wall, small but big enough for Misha, every night he would sneak out, without his armband, and goes hunting for thing to steal, throughout his time in the ghetto he becomes very good at this and know just the right places.
• The ghetto is also a place of death, everyday there are bodies under newspaper, and Jews killed by the jackboots, some just because they can others for ‘crimes’ such as smuggling.
• Nearer the end of the book they are told that they will be going on the trains to resettlements in the east but Janina father does not believe this is the case and asks that when Misha and Janina go out that night they don’t come back but Janina doesn’t want to leave her family and refuses to stay with Misha and returns to the ghetto, one night when they get back, people are being ushered on to the trains, they try to get away but she is thrown into the train and the door shut.
After the war:
• After the war Misha continues to steal to make a living and soon saves up enough money for a passage to America.
• He learns English and trys to pursue a sales career, in the end he gives up on selling the product and ends up ranting on the street about the ghetto and his life before America; a lot of people think he is crazy.
• Every day he goes on the streets to share his stories and one day he meets his wife to be. The marriage only lasted 5 months, the day she kicks him out he asks ‘are you pregnant?’ she doesn’t answer.
• Years later when his is working at the supermarket, his daughter finds him, he has a granddaughter.