Summary Of Number The Stars By Lois Lowry

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.

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.

society, and it was between the nazi’s angainst the minorities. The nazi’s wanted, in their opinion, a perfect society. It didn’t have jews, communists, gypsies, among others. In this book, these minorities are put in extermination camps where they are killed and surviving ones are shipped to other camps. The nazi’s didn’t want anyone else that didn’t look and act like them.

The Holocaust lasted from 1933-1945, when the Nazi army used the Jewish people as a scapegoat and persuaded parts of Europe that they were responsible for all the issues being faced at that time. Hundreds of thousands of Jews, and other groups of people, were thrown into forced labor camps called concentration camps. The majority of those who were in the camps did not live to see liberation. The stories of the survivors are indispensable resources to completely understand the heinous events during the Holocaust. The overall feeling of emptiness is extremely evident in the book Night.

Segregation from the rest of society begins the dehumanization of Sighet Jews. The first measure taken by the Hungarian Police against Jews is to label them with yellow stars. Early in Night, while life is still normal despite German occupation of their town, Wiesel explains: “Three days later, a new decree: every Jew had to wear the yellow star” (11). This decree is demoralizing to Jews because it labels them and sets them apart from the rest of Sighet’s population. Like trees marked for logging or dogs marked with owner tags, many people in Sighet are marked with yellow stars, to reveal their

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

“Beautifully told and unforgettable, Yellow Star reminds us that hope and innocence can shine through the darkest tragedy.” ー David Lubar. In 1939, Syvia and her family along with many other Jews were put inside the Ghetto. Syvia’s life was put at risk multiple times for her to stay in the Ghetto with her family. Finally one night the Russians liberated the Jews in Poland and the only Jews left in Poland were the 800 adults and 12 children that walked out of the Lodz Ghetto. Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy is a nonfiction book that includes significant characters and the hair-raising conflicts.

In the early 1940s, the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, wanted world domination. They invaded many countries and sent many citizens to concentration camps. Many of those sent to the camps were Jewish, and were murdered for their religion. Jane Yolen wrote The Devil’s Arithmetic to remember these events, known as the Holocaust. Jane Yolen’s novel, The Devil’s Arithmetic, delivers the message of remembrance more aptly than Donna Deitch’s film because of the character Rivka, the sacrifices made, and the dehumanization.

The novel "Conjurer from the Stars," by Sylvia Engdahl, is a bewildering story with numerous and essential subjects. One subject specifically is "hazard and penance". A hefty portion of the characters in the novel need to yield and danger something. An illustration from the story that demonstrates the subject is when Ilura dangers and penances her life to the Imperials.

As one reaches adulthood, one reaches a level of sense of self-identity and understanding of their status in society that one will come into agreement with. In Stars Always Shining, the author Rick Rivera explores the idea of belonging in society through the use of the characters and the influences of the environment. The main character, Placido along with his assisting characters, Michelle and Salvador, struggle with finding their place amongst society along with their relationships amongst each other and their bosses, Jacqueline and Mickey. In the beginning, we are shown how confrontational Mitchell, or Mitch, and Jacqueline are as they first get to know each other. Although Mitch tries to impress the owners with her vast knowledge she comes off as knowing more than the owners.

This is the day of the revolt. Months before, prisoners had heard word of the Nazis imminent defeat. The prisoners knew, that with the German’s defeat approaching, the Nazis would murder all of the remaining Jews, after they were forced to dismantle camp in an attempt to destroy evidence and conceal these gruesome operations. This necessity to escape interjected into the prisoners the courage required to start the substantial revolt. Approximately 1,000 prisoners participated in the revolt, but most of them perished in the violence that ensued. However, “More than 300 did escape -- though two thirds of those who escaped were eventually tracked down and killed by German SS and police as well as military units” (Archer Noah). One of those who survived published memoirs that were smuggled into America and Britain to educate people on the Holocaust. His writings helped uncover hidden evidence and lies. Although very few survived, the revolt was still largely successful considering the

Number the Stars is a 17 chapter book written by Lois Lowry, an American writer who has written over thirty children's book and won two Newbery Medals for her books Number the Stars and The Giver. The book is set during World War II, a war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 and was fought between the Allied powers of the United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union and the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan. During this time the Dictator of Germany Adolf Hitler started to send the Jews off to concentration camps where they were either killed or died of sickness, starvation, or thirst. The exact reason for Hitler's actions but like many anti-Semites in Germany he blamed the Jews for the country's defeat in 1918.

When the day comes for the Nazi soldiers to capture all of the Jews, The father hides many of them in the hospital, disguised as patients. He hides some in his house. Henrik smuggles Jews in a van, too. In Number the Stars, Annemarie’s family only takes in Ellen Rosen. One similarity is that in both stories, the families are almost caught hiding Jewish people by Nazi soldiers.

The plot of A Thousand Splendid Suns revolves around two protagonists: Laila and Mariam. Most of the story’s characters are round, but Mariam and Laila are exceptionally complex. Mariam is a harami, a bastard, that leaves her mother, Nana, in order to live with Jalil, her father. Jalil rejects her, and Jalil and Mariam later regret the decisions that they made at that point in their lives. Mariam is a quiet, thoughtful, and kind woman who was born in Herat, and her face has been described as long, triangular, and houndlike. She is forced into marriage at the age of fifteen with a much older suitor named Rasheed who abuses her brutally once he learns that she cannot provide him with children. She is also revealed as a very dynamic character early in the story. Mariam quickly develops a mistrust toward men, and she realizes that her mother had been right all along. Another example of a significant change Mariam goes through is the animosity she feels toward Laila that quickly transforms into their friendship when “a look passed between Laila and Mariam. An unguarded, knowing look. And in this fleeting, wordless exchange with Mariam, Laila knew they were not enemies any longer.” (page 250). Later in the story, Mariam, who was a forty-two-year-old woman at that time, is executed by the Taliban for murder.