Ordinary People Can Change the World
Many times I have heard someone say, “What can I do to help?” “I am only one person, what can I do alone?” “I can 't change the world.” Yet, people perform heroic deeds every day as part of their job. For example, firefighters and emergency response people, rush into burning buildings to save other people 's lives. Men and women in the military face danger every day to keep civilians safe. However, ordinary people including children, can do extraordinary things. I believe that ordinary people can alter the course of history by doing what is right. This is the case in the book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. It is a fictional story based on facts told to Mrs. Lowry by her Danish friend Annelise Platt, who experienced the long years of German occupation during World War II. The novel recounts how the Johansen family endanger their own lives to help their Jewish friends escape the brutality of the Nazis and their Relocation Program. Lise, the Johansen 's eldest daughter, and her fiance Peter, work for the Resistance. The Resistance is a group, made up of mostly young people, secretly fighting against the Nazis. Resistance workers sabotage the German 's plans in any way they can; bombing factories that …show more content…
When the Nazis enter Denmark, they are just regular people whose lives are turned upside down by the German occupation. They overcome their fears and save the lives of many fortunate Jews. Peter and Lise, Mr. and Mrs. Johansen, Uncle Henrik, and Annmarie put their own lives in danger to save the lives of others. They change the course of history and fight for what is right and just. So clearly, the Johansen family are ordinary people, but they have the courage to rescue many lives, change Denmark and change the world. Therefore, they are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They take a stand against the Nazis by doing the honorable
Many times I have heard someone say, “What can I do to help?” “I am only one person, what can I do alone?” “I can 't change the world.” Yet, people perform heroic deeds every day as part of their job. For example, firefighters and emergency response people, rush into burning buildings to save other people 's lives. Men and women in the military face danger every day to keep civilians safe. However, ordinary people including children, can do extraordinary things. I believe that ordinary people can alter the course of history by doing what is right. This is the case in the book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. It is a fictional story based on facts told to Mrs. Lowry by her Danish friend Annelise Platt, who experienced the long years of German occupation during World War II. The novel recounts how the Johansen family endanger their own lives to help their Jewish friends escape the brutality of the Nazis and their Relocation Program. Lise, the Johansen 's eldest daughter, and her fiance Peter, work for the Resistance. The Resistance is a group, made up of mostly young people, secretly fighting against the Nazis. Resistance workers sabotage the German 's plans in any way they can; bombing factories that …show more content…
When the Nazis enter Denmark, they are just regular people whose lives are turned upside down by the German occupation. They overcome their fears and save the lives of many fortunate Jews. Peter and Lise, Mr. and Mrs. Johansen, Uncle Henrik, and Annmarie put their own lives in danger to save the lives of others. They change the course of history and fight for what is right and just. So clearly, the Johansen family are ordinary people, but they have the courage to rescue many lives, change Denmark and change the world. Therefore, they are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They take a stand against the Nazis by doing the honorable