Number The Stars Book Summary

The three themes that stood out the most to me were: prejudice, leadership, and bravery. My first theme is prejudice, in my opinion it is not right to own someone as “property”

B.Include only the first author's last name and initial of first name AND the year of publication.

She started the diary just days before the Nazi takeover in her home country Hungary. Her diary gives keen insights on what it was like to be Jewish child in the Holocaust Era. The Book,

These teens have similar and different traits. Each of them lived together and became closer. They also had a different thing to study and learn about. The teens were good friends, Jews, lived in the Annex, and are all dead. Their differences were there genders, age, and parent’s favorite. These similarities and differences helps people understand more about the

The setting was different from most books about the World Wars. I had never heard of Latvia or Stalin until I read this book. The flashbacks in the story helped give a better understanding of how Lina’s life was before and the difference now. The event of the mother and father dying showed the hardships that the young children and teenager had to go through. Although there were some sad parts that I disliked, such as when Jonas changed into a mean person and started to smoke, those were the reality of what had happened during the wars. This book is one of my favorite books I have ever read! I would recommend this book to everyone and

C: "I was the eldest child of 2, born to Vanna Morris-Goodall and Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall, in London, England, April 3rd 1934. I have younger sister called Judith Goodall."

d. I do not think this book glorifies the boys, but I do think it acknowledges their

When writing about the theme, the writer should keep in mind that he/she will write an analysis of a theme that appears in either a text or movie that argues a specific point. The writer's aim in this type of essay is to pick a theme from a text or movie and write about what that theme does for the story or what that theme makes the reader realize about that story and/or life itself. The best way to come up with such an

Growing up in a wartime environment affects the identities, confidence and adolescence process for many people. In the books, The Diary of A Young Girl, Farewell to Manzanar, and Night, World War II accelerates Anne’s, Jeanne’s and Elie’s precious maturity and coming of age process. World War II, the Nazis and their identity of being Jewish forces Anne and Elie to grow up and mature much sooner than expected. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, World War II have a negative impact on Jeanne’s confidence and she starts to lose respect towards her Japanese heritage. All three of them are struggling to find out who they truly are. Anne Frank, Jeanne Wakatsuki and Elie Wiesel all are greatly affected by the war, but in different milieus and in

The central idea of this book is a little girl and her struggle in concentration camps the author shows this by “ tomorrow is deportation”( Leitner 3) . This happened on May 28, 1944 where she started her journey in the camps. She explains her feelings and fairs of them too and how she's not ready to leave this place called home because she was living in hungary and she ends up having to move away. Something else that is showing Isabella’s struggle is ”Every since childhood,I remember them with terror in my heart.” (Isabella Leitner 5). In this quote she is talking about the people that heard them like cattle and stuff. This was also the people that would kill them and make them do horrible things.These were the people that didn't make them feel like people. “75 to a car... no toilets... no doctors ... no medication”( Leitner 7) Isabella is talking about how they were moved place to place in these little cattle cars and how horrible the conditions normally where. Imagine being shoved in

The location and events were especially important in the book. Daniel’s family was forced to leave their home in Frankfurt, Germany in the 1930s. They were sent on a long and dangerous journey to Poland at Lodz ghetto, and then to Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp. Culture was important as well due to the fact that they are Jews and they had a lot of things

At the beginning of the book, Number The Stars by Lois Lowry, Annemarie, the main character, and her best friend, Ellen, are on their way home from school in Copenhagen with Annemarie’s little sister, Kirsti. Ellen and Annemarie decide to have a race, ahead of Kirsti, but Nazi soldiers stop them and question why they are running. The Nazis let the girls go about their day because they think Kirsti is cute, and tell them to not race anymore. Once they get home, Kirsti goes inside while Ellen and Annemarie say goodbye to each other. The two friends chose to keep their little encounter with the soldiers a secret and not tell anyone, but when Annemarie walks into her home, she realizes that her little sister already told her mom and Ellen’s mom.

Helen is an antagonist because she locks Annie in her room and is very stubborn and spoiled, which prevents her from learning language and

In the Story, The Displaced Person, after World War 2 The Guizacs family arrive at the farm of Mrs. McIntyre, who is a widow, fleeing Poland during the War. Also on the farm Mrs. McIntyre has a white family, the Shortley, a young black man named Sulk, and an older black man

The narrative structure is linear and it follows a community of Jewish individuals during the Second World War as it experiences its last moments of peace previous to the start of a nightmare. Jews are shown as they arrive in the Krakow Ghetto, one of the most important locations that individuals belonging to this ethnic group were taken to during the conflict. The story takes place in