Milkweed - Team 1

“A single white flower flew out of the crowd. It bounced from the iron flankof a tank and broke into pedals. I threw my cheese.” (Misha, Milkweed, p. 20)

I Think that Misha is agreeing with the white flower even though he's oblivious to what's happening. The color white can be a hopeful, peaceful death upon the tanks.  Let me explain you can have hope in every moment that you have, but you can also be at peace while having hope; and then you can die by an army tank. maybe he throws it to give up yet agreeing with the fact that he's at peace, and yet hopeful. It kind of ironic that there's a flower being thrown up while a tank is coming threw the streets. I think that its the end of the tunnal for the freedom that people are use to is coming to a end.




In our english class when we were studying Edgar Allen Poe, he wrote a poem thats name was “The Masque of the Red Death”  in the story they have seven rooms the colors were, “blue stained glass windows. The second room was purple, the third was green, and the fourth was orang. The fifth was was all white, and the sixth was violet. The walls of the seventh were covered in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls.” The color white symbolizes ring around the posie. The meaning of "Ring around the Rosie"--refers to a red mark, supposedly the first sign of the plague
"A pocketful of posies"refers to sachets of herbs carried to ward off infection
"Ashes, ashes" either a reference to the cremation of plague victims or to the words said in the funeral Mass..."Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Sometimes line three is rendered as "Atischoo, atischoo"sneezing, another sign of infection.
"We all fall down." The Plague was not selective in its victims; both rich and poor, young and old, succumbed. i think that the white could have meant death but thats red and so white stands for peace or hope.