Why does Doctor Korczak not allow the children in the orphanage to ride the Merry-go-round? Use evidence to explain your answer.

Doctor Korczak does not allow the children in the orphanage to ride the merry-go-round because he looks them as a children, which world refuse to look at.

Explanation:

'Milkweed' is a novel written by Jerry Spinelli. The novel is about a boy named Misha Pilsudski, set in Warsaw, Poland.

In Chapter 13, when Misha asks Doctor Korczak that why does not the children of orphanage go to ride the merry-go-round, he simply says because 'They're children.' By saying this, he implied that children are simple and innocent, just like  Misha, but human beings in the world are not. They does not value simple things.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”