Inquiry: How do characters deal with injustice in your book?

In the book Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli, I've noticed how the protagonist, a Venetian boy named Roberto tried to do his best to deal with the injustice around him. This book is set during World War II and one day when Roberto was watching a movie with his friend Samuele, the German soldiers captured hundreds of boys in there into a train and sent them off to a camp against their will. It was really difficult for Roberto to stand up for himself and other innocent and good people since violence was so heavy but he tried to help fight this unfairness and cruelty as best as he can.

For example, in this time period, the Jewish were treated unfairly. Samuele was Jewish and he had to bear the unfair treatment and lack of respect from people just because he's Jewish. However, Roberto didn't ignore him like the people around him tells him to do. Instead, he became good friends with Samuele by staying at his side, treating him like a true friend. Even though this injustice is twirling around, Roberto made a difference. He did that by not judging Samuele's difference and accepting him as to who he really is, not based on his background. This shows how Roberto is trying to make a change and hopefully destroys this injustice. I think what he did can greatly impact and help change how the other people are treating or viewing the Jews by showing how they could become friendly neighbors. In order to make things right again the way a person desires, it is important to be part of it to help accomplish this goal.

While Roberto was working in one of the camps, he saw Polish Jews held captive too and they were getting worse treatments than the young working boys. The Polish Jews grownups and as well as children were being starved inside a fence. When Roberto was given some food that can barely be enough to make his hunger disappear, he gave some to a bony size girl and her little sister through the fence wires quietly without letting the soldiers' notice. When Roberto donated the small amount of food he had, it reveals how he wanted to help as much as he can and he even risked his life to secretly hand them some of his food. The soldiers were cruel to starve these innocent people and children and how Roberto acted toward this injustice is by helping them as best as he can. The little food he sacrificed to the girls were so valuable to their survival and this can make people realized that this wrongdoing can slowly go away when people starts to help out.

From this book, a lesson that I learned about humanity is to always do your best to help out and build justice even during a suffering time period. Roberto became good friends with Samuele who is a Jewish boy where people disrespect his race. He also sacrificed his food even though it's not enough for himself to the children who were starving to death. This illustrates how even when a person sees injustice in the world, they tried to make a change and hope for equality to come by helping out as much as one can do. This book showed me that if I want justice to come, I have to make myself be in that justice. In other words, I have to act and do my part to change the unjust treatment and demonstrate to the people around me that we can bloom a peaceful world.