Uncle Shepsel's Point of View

       Uncle Shepsel, is very predictable. He can never find the silver lining and never will. Even before the ghetto, he was upset and depressed, thinking that everything in his life had gone wrong. His character seems to be getting worse and worse each day living in the ghetto... its guarded walls and diseases and deaths driving him into insanity. He himself is convinced that Jews are dirty and gross, even though he is one. He is even trying to learn how not to be a Jew, by reading a book over and over about another religion. I believe that he has developed a very low self-esteem (I mean who wouldn't? Especially when Flops and Nazis treat them like dirt... but he's still worse than most). That's why he's mean to Misha, Janina and Mr. Milogram. He reminds me of a bully. The same circumstance, but he's an adult. I think that because of his desperate need to become wanted and not a Jew,  that he'll do anything for anyone... even betray his own family.