The Book Thief By Annemarie Johansen: The German Soldier

Anne matures throughout the course of her diary entries, moving from detailed accounts of basic activities to deeper, more profound thoughts about humanity and her own personal nature. “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” This shows that Anne matures through the course of her diary, she considers herself as a woman rather than a young girl and sets goals for herself that she wants to achieve. Anne becomes more optimistic even after she feels misunderstood by everyone and feels completely alone.

In the beginning, Anne was a very outgoing, happy girl. She was very immature and tried looking

It is just one of many stories of ordinary people taking the heroic call for action upon themselves. For example, Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl whose family was hidden for years in the annex f oan office building with the help of the family's friends and coworkers. Many Jewish people’s choice Anne Frank and her family had little choice about their lives simply because they were Jewish. Anne Frank’s family was forced into hiding to avoid being sent into concentration camp and to avoid Anti-Semitic practices. Members of the Assisi Network believed that all refugees should have a choice: in what religion they practiced, to not be discriminated against, to have a life and personality outside of their race and religion. Gertruda Babilins was the nanny of a rich Jewish family and saved the boy who had she cared for when the war began. She worked very hard to give him a good childhood because she thought that the Nazis had robbed him of that. Gertruda wanted Mickey to practice Judaism even though she was a Catholic and he was immersed in Catholic culture. Even though it was hard for her to pay for his Jewish schooling. Just like those of the Assisi network allowed the people they rescued to practice Judaism even though it made the hiding process more

Jews have perished because of their beliefs since the beginning of time but never have so many Jews been persecuted worldwide as they were in World War II. Anne Frank’s diary reaches a place within all of our hearts because it reminds us how easily the innocents can suffer. Sometimes we may choose to close our eyes or look the other way when unjustifiable things happen in our society and Anne’s tale reminds us that ignorance, in part, claimed her life. Sadly, her story is but one of many of those who died in the Holocaust and as with other Jews, her fate was determined by the country she lived in, her sex and her age.

Annemarie is very brave and trustworthy. She has really good character traits. In the book Number the Stars, she becomes more mature, she goes from girlhood to womenhood. She lies but only to keep people safe. Other people lied to her to keep her or the Jews safe. When a German soldier stopped her in the woods he said, “What are you doing here?” She had to act as Kirsti would, so she held out her basket with the thick loaf of bread visible. “My Uncle Henrick forgot his lunch, and I’m taking it to him. He’s a fisherman.”

Describe: Liesel and her best friend, Rudy Steiner, has been walking through town when a woman in a window above them looks to the streets and announces, “Die Juden;” The Jews. This is when a vast amount of Jewish prisoners begins to march their way down Munich Street while Nazi soldiers barked orders at them. To everyone, especially Liesel (who had a Jewish person living in her basement), this was the furthest thing from a pleasant sight. And apparently, Hans Hubermann had enough of this, as if being controlled by God himself, Hans walked over and offered a particularly weak Jew a piece of bread out of pure sympathy, only to be beaten by overlooking Nazis.

One of the quotes that sticks for me in the chapter is her friend telling her “it’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do; you can either type or kill yourself.” Although this is a very dramatic way of wording it, it speaks to what writing was like for Anne. She talks about writing multiple drafts feeling like it was the end of the world. Feeling like she was going to be judged or out of a job because she thought her reviews sucked. Instead of giving

It happened because of the killing of a German officer, Ernst vom Rath by for a Polish Jew called Herschel Gynszpan (Moeller 105). I witnessed the frightful attack by the Nazis on places related to the Jews such as synagogues, their religious sites, and cemeteries (Bergen “Chapter 5”). All their shops’ windows had been smashed broken. The once graceful streets filled with shops have now been replaced by burned debris and fractures of broken glasses. The Nazis did not only attack their shops and dwellings, but they had also arrested and even murder huge number of Jews (Bergen “Chapter 5”). I saw a young girl being hurled down from a building. I wanted to help her but my timidity had locked both my feet on the ground. An owner of a shop had also been captured by the Stormtroopers, which separated him from his crying wife and daughter. At the sight of this, I thought of Bauer and became frightened for his condition. I leaped to his store, only to find an abandoned and distorted place. Fire has consumed Bauer’s shop, shelf was overthrown, glasses were shattered into pieces, and the safety of Bauer is the only one that I can hope for. When will this violence end? It saddens me to know that Germany is no longer the country it used to be, for racialism has covered it, and ‘unity’ has lost its

The book Coming of Age In Mississippi tells a poignant story of Anne Moody’s life experience while growing up in rural Mississippi. Although Anne grew up poor, she had grit and determination. Anne’s father Fred “Diddly” and mother Toosweet were together up until their third child was conceived. From Fred, Anne’s mother had Anne (Essie Mae), Adline, and Junior. After Fred and Toosweet broke up Anne’s mother had four more children from Raymond, her second husband.

After reading chapter one of the book I learned that Ann Moody provided the readers with great information pertaining her life at the age of four. In chapter one, Anne considerably supplied the readers with the time, setting, and

Gerda was 15 when she was moved into a ghetto called the Bielsko ghetto in 1939 ,September 1. Gerda had an older brother who was 19. But that changed when young men 16 and up had to sign up for the army. Now it was just Gerda and her parents. Then german fighter planes appeared overhead, causing people to flee the city. Her family remanded in the town. In the morning, she heard intense shouting and saw Nazi’s on motorcycles shouting “Heil Hitler”. One day women and men were separated and asked to be put in lines. Gerda was in the line with her mother and a guard asked her how old she was and she said, “18”. Then she was put in a truck a shouting at her mother to ask where she was going and her mother said she didn’t know. Gerda jumped out of the truck but a SS officer caught her and said to her that she was too young to die. Then she knew that her mother was going to die. After Gerda being moved into the ghetto she was deported in 1942 to work in a factory in Bolkenhain, Silesia. Besides the of all the labor and hunger there was caring caring between the inmates. A German supervisor, Mrs. Kugler, saved Gerda’s life because when Gerda got sick and the SS men had to inspected her to see if she should continue working or die. Mrs. Kugler helped her pass the Inspection by just letting her work and then rest again. She was moved to a camp called Marzdorf and spent three years there. It

World War II was a time of crisis and genocide for Nazi Germany. Many jews were sent to concentration camps where they were most likely murdered. For some jews they went into hiding to escape the Nazis. A girl named Anne Frank and her family were Jewish and hid in the Secret Annex from 1942-1944 when they were eventually caught. The Secret Annex was located in a warehouse where a German family helped the Franks and another Jewish family, the van Pels. Each day they had to be quiet in the mornings to make sure the warehouse workers did not hear them. People who helped the jews put their lives in danger is if they were caught, they also would be sent to a concentration camp to receive the same fate. They provided food, clothes, and books for

Even though France’s officials didn’t help save them, there were other European countries that protected their Jewish population from the Nazis, such as Denmark. During WWII, Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. During this time, while the Nazis tried to round up Danish Jews to send them to concentration camps, there was considerable opposition to the action. In his article, One Country Saved Its Jews. Were They Just Better People?, Michael Ignatieff maintains that ““When, in October 1943, the Gestapo came to round up the 7,500 Jews of Copenhagen, the Danish police did not help them to smash down the doors. The churches read letters of protest to their congregations. Neighbors helped families to flee to villages on the Baltic coast, where local people

Germany invaded Denmark on April 9, 1940, and occupied Denmark for the remainder of World War II. However, the Danish government was able to keep Germany from immediately deporting the approximately eight thousand Jewish citizens living in the country. On September 28, 1943, a German diplomat named Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz

After months of disagreement, Anne and her mother finally start to get along. Anne becomes more sympathetic to her mother, and realizes that some of her past entries about her mother were very cruel and hotheaded. Now, Anne does her best to care for her mother and also keep her mouth shut at times. She tries not to take things as serious, as well. She does her best to mature when it comes to her and her mother’s relationship.