Analysis Of Number The Stars By Lois Lowry

“An heirloom-breaking, clumsy little harami” (Hosseini 4), sets the tone for the beginning of Mariam’s life throughout the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Many women are mistreated throughout the novel, but Mariam’s childhood is much tougher because she is a harami, or “bastard child”. Mariam tries to find emotional and physical shelter in her lifetime, but struggles to find it. In the beginning of her life she can’t find emotional shelter from her mother, Nana, so she tries to find shelter from her father, Jalil, but can’t find a connection. She then was forced to marry Rasheed, but can only find physical shelter in him. Later in the novel, she becomes friends with Laila,

Ever wondered what the experience for Jews during World War II was like? Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, written by Anne Frank with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, is a series of diary entries that capture the hardships a young girl, Anne Frank, experiences during World War II. Frank had not intended for her diary entries to be read by the world, but when she later died at a concentration camp, her father decided to publish it after being convinced by his family and friends. This piece of work has been recognized by the world and is looked upon as a work of literature that impacts ones emotions deeply from the astonishing story put onto paper by the then 13 year old Anne Frank. The novel provides an insight of the life of a young

For many years, women have been oppressed and treated as property. The opinion of a woman did not matter, being obedient to her husband was all that is required. Even if they were obedient to their husbands, women were property and only for the pleaser and likening to the husband. Mariam did all the her husband required of her, however there was one thing should could not. Which was give her husband, Rasheed, a son or any child. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini reveals the social issue of physical abuse and mental abuse by his use of imagery, diction, and dialogue.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khalid Hosseini explores themes relating to hardships and family, especially having to do with the oppression of women. This novel follows the lives of Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women whose interactions arise from their forced marriage to Rasheed, and the abuse they face together. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of Jalil, a rich businessman, and his former housekeeper, Nana. Struggling with the stigma surrounding her birth and guilt following her mother’s suicide prompts Mariam to be unable to stand up for herself. Laila is quite the opposite and grew up with the desire for an education and the knowledge that she could change the world. After her parents and Tariq’s deaths, Laila is forced to set

When conceptualising the notion of a ‘constellation’, many definitions arise as to what the term represents and the ways to which it possesses a metaphorical significance. Such queries emerge throughout the duration of the contemporary theatre piece suitably entitled ‘Constellations’, written by English playwright Nick Payne, who effectively initiates controversy by implicitly alluding towards the perplexing concepts of parallel universes, nonlinear and possible infinite expanses of time, as well as the importance of individual choices and their relationship with the concept of fate/destiny. This exploitation of the power of subliminal manipulation is prevalent in most modern theatre as dramatic meaning is more effectively conveyed and

In Monica Hesse’s Girl in the Blue Coat, themes of World War 2 can be seen throughout the Netherlands, where this story takes place. While this book is not written around a specific battle or event of World War 2, it portrays events such as Jewish holding camps, German soldiers patrolling within the Netherlands, and how the black market had an impact on the people in the war.

Khaled Hosseini’s critically acclaimed novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, follows two women whose lives intertwine and their fates become connected. Laila is a young girl who falls in love with a man who she cannot be with and is carrying his baby when she marries Rasheed. Rasheed’s first wife, Mariam, is a lovely woman who becomes Laila’s companion in their mutual hatred for the abusive Rasheed. With alternating perspectives, Hosseini gives insight into both women's lives and relays the cruelties they are forced to endure, and how the brutality they face affects their lives, specifically Laila’s, whose motherly instincts allow her to endure much more than otherwise.

It was September 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark, when just 10 year old Annemarie Johansen promised that as a danish Citizen if need be she would die for her King. Courage was what it took to survive the German occupation in their country. Although the German soldiers that stood at every street corner weren’t there to harm her family, they were there to relocate all Jews. Which soon included Annemarie’s lifelong friend, Ellen. Not only as a danish citizen promising to die for your kings safety, Annemarie also was willing to die for the safety of her friends too. Which is exactly what she did. The German soldier’s went throughout the city to every apartment at which known Jews lived and relocated them. Doing a very dangerous task the Johansen

The Life of a Jew A girl, born in Holland, had a life changing experience when Hitler sent troops to attack her hometown. A nonfiction book, otherwise known as The Hiding Place, a story describing Corrie Ten Boom’s perspective of her journey that she took during World War II. The author uses diction, syntax, imagery, and tone to elaborate and describe what is going on in the book, as well as it gives personal thoughts to have a closer relationship with the reader. Diction can make a big difference in the book.

Twelve-year-old Hannah Stern, is a Jewish girl from New Rochelle, NY. What started out as a normal traditional dinner called Seder, became an adventure of humiliation, survival, death, and a new found appreciation for her family and heritage. Hannah, during Seder dinner, was told to answer the door to see if someone was coming. When she opened the door she was suddenly transported back in time—to Poland in 1942. Her confusion grows deeper as she inhabits the life of Chaya Abramowicz. Not understanding if this is a dream, or if she is Hannah or Chaya, she and her new friends and family are then taken by the Nazis. The book details the horrific acts that happened at the concentration camps during WW2, and the message of never forgetting what

Callie Quinn is the main character in the book “Where the Stars Still Shine.” In the beginning of the book Callie is very insecure, lonely, and sad. Living with her mom traveling from place to place hiding from the police causes Callie to feel insecure and scared. Trish Doller reveals the insecurity and loneliness of Callie Quinn by Callie’s actions of not wanting to go to school and running away. She runs away a lot to try to think about her future. “I wish you wouldn’t run off to that laundromat in the middle of the night, Callie.”(6) She doesn’t have any friends and she only has her mom who smokes, gets drunk, and is a poor role model for Callie which causes Callie to be sad and to have a poor life. Callie has never been to school and

Bravery and courage is a theme throughout the story Number The Stars by Lois Lowry. Number the stars talks place in Copenhagen, Denmark during World War II. German soldiers are roaming the streets in Copenhagen. People are in fear, especially Jews, of the German soldiers due to the fact that they were cruel, mean and forceful. It takes of guts to talk to a Nazi or talk back to them.

"On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13, 152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. In the Vélodrome d' Hiver that once stood on this spot, 1,129 men, 2,916 women, and 4,115 children were packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget” (De Rosnay 60). In the book Sarah’s Key, it begins with a young girl named Sarah Starzinsky, who is dealing with her family being removed by the French police and put into a camp. Before the family left, Sarah puts her brother into a closet and locks him in to where he will not come out until she comes back. However, Sarah and her family did not realize that they were not

In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, main character Mariam is forced into exile after a horrific set of experiences. After her mother’s suicide, she is removed from her home and is later arranged to marry a random man she never met before. Before her departure, Mariam lived in a “kolba,” a small hut on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. With no other place to go, she disapprovingly lives with her father for a short period of time before being shipped off to her new husband. Her encounter with exile is almost unbearable, yet she endures and grows into a hardworking and respectable woman. For Mariam, exile is both alienating and enriching; it illuminates how withstanding life’s challenges and learning to overcome them with love will ultimately be beneficial in the end, no matter what happens.

The authors Khaled Hosseini and Kurt Vonnegut write novels of critical acclaim. Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns explores the life of Mariam and her struggles with her husband and society, however, she finds reason to fight through a religious tutor. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five examines the life of Billy Pilgrim who goes through the bombing of Dresden and is kidnapped by an alien species, the Tralfamadorians, who have him apply a new philosophy. Using traditional techniques, Hosseini constructs Mullah Faizullah, the religious tutor, as a wise mentor. The persona of a hermit guru was used by Vonnegut as a non-traditional guide in the form of the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five. Hosseini uses foreshadowing and a comforting