This book takes place in Denmark during the 1940s. The main character is Annemarie Johansen whose best friend is Ellen Rosen. This story takes place over a very short period of time. This book shows just how quickly everyone’s lives were turned upside down.
Annemarie, her sister Kristi and Ellen are walking home from school when they are stopped by soldiers that question who they are and how they do in school. When they get home their mothers are “having coffee” and worry about what the girls told them. The girls then take different ways to school knowing the soldiers are looking for them.
Everything was rationed so the mothers were never really having coffee. They had water with some herbs in it while they gossiped. The Nazi wanted to find people that fit their idea of a better race. The Nazi would take surveys to weed “undesirable” people from the population. Before all that had really happened was rationing, food and electricity. However now the Nazi had been looking to single out people which worried the mothers.
Later that week Nazi had broken into a synagogue and took a list of all its members. This is because the Nazi didn’t think that Jewish people fit in with the “superior” race. This now …show more content…
While it has a very simple context it holds a very power story within. The holocaust is a very gruesome time in history. People were killed by the thousands because they were not born a certain way. In Number The Stars the author shows the love one human can have for another. It shows how one person can change the life of another. A Quote that really sticks out to me was “that’s all that brave means—not thinking about the dangers”. The Johansens didn’t think about how they had already lost one daughter for being on the resistance side they could only think about saving their friends. I think that Lois Lowry did a wonderful job with this book. This book is complete fiction but it seems so real because it happened so
Annemarie, her sister Kristi and Ellen are walking home from school when they are stopped by soldiers that question who they are and how they do in school. When they get home their mothers are “having coffee” and worry about what the girls told them. The girls then take different ways to school knowing the soldiers are looking for them.
Everything was rationed so the mothers were never really having coffee. They had water with some herbs in it while they gossiped. The Nazi wanted to find people that fit their idea of a better race. The Nazi would take surveys to weed “undesirable” people from the population. Before all that had really happened was rationing, food and electricity. However now the Nazi had been looking to single out people which worried the mothers.
Later that week Nazi had broken into a synagogue and took a list of all its members. This is because the Nazi didn’t think that Jewish people fit in with the “superior” race. This now …show more content…
While it has a very simple context it holds a very power story within. The holocaust is a very gruesome time in history. People were killed by the thousands because they were not born a certain way. In Number The Stars the author shows the love one human can have for another. It shows how one person can change the life of another. A Quote that really sticks out to me was “that’s all that brave means—not thinking about the dangers”. The Johansens didn’t think about how they had already lost one daughter for being on the resistance side they could only think about saving their friends. I think that Lois Lowry did a wonderful job with this book. This book is complete fiction but it seems so real because it happened so