Themes In Number The Stars By Lois Lowry

One Morning January 1943, Tuesday a Green Police Officer stopped Hanneke’s bike asking what she had in her basket, there were three packages.The first one was filled with potatoes and the Second one was a sweater and books for her mother. She didn’t say what the other packages were and started to mess with the officer so that she could be on her way.In the other Packages were sausages, lotion, and cigarettes for two people to deliver too, Miss Akkerman and Mrs. Janssen. Mrs. Janssen wanted to ask Hanneke a favor her to do and it was to help Mrs. Janssen find a Jewish Girl.Hanneke was shocked and Mrs. Janssen told her Husband was hiding a Jewish Family in his shop and they all died beside Mirjam who was hiding in her house. Hanneke didn’t know if she would help because it’s dangerous and she could get killed, she told Mrs. Janssen she would think about it, but she was late for lunch with her mother and father.Her mother was upset that Hanneke was late and told her she had a Green Police pulled her over, she kissed her father on the

The play, “The Diary of Anne Frank” tells the story of a girl named Anne Frank and the events that occur during her time hiding from the Nazis in the Holocaust with her family, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel. While the two families were in hiding, they all suffered tremendously with limited food portions and the need to remain quiet in order to not get caught. During this period, if a person were to be not fit in the Aryan race, which consists of blonde hair, blue eyes, and tallness, then they were to be sent to concentration camps or be killed. Although all of the characters were put into the same circumstances, Mr. Van Daan drastically took advantage of the rest of the Annex. He was portrayed to be selfish and gluttonous because of the fact that he would do anything in order to obtain cigarettes and because he has been given or taking a significant amount of food that is supposed to be for the whole Annex. .

The idioms of everyday American speech in a middle-class domestic situation are used in showing the events and relationships of the Berlin family. In contrast to the conversations of Becca and Stan, usually presented as straight dialogue, the discussions among the three sisters are conventionally presented, often with “she said” and other interpolations to give explicitly the emotional level of the sister’s disagreements. Madga, the Polish student who acts as Becca’s guide to the death camp site speaks fluent English but at times awkward English “Oh, they are much in appreciation” she says when given a pair of jeans. Contrast between the formal, traditional language of the fairy tale and childish, informal chatter is shown when the children comment or question as Gemma proceeds with her Briar Rose fairy tale story telling. Her contrast revisiting of just this one fairy tale shows the reader that while her conscious memory has buries the details of her past horrors, she cannot help returning to the fairy tale allegory. Contrast is also shown between the warm, happy imagery of life in the Berlin house and the bleak, harsh details of the holocaust.

Chapter five is about the Nazi’s coming into the Johansens house asking about the Rosens and where they were. This all happened while Ellen was staying with them. At this stage Ellen had been told that the soldiers wouldn’t come, a few times. She thought acting as Lise will improve her acting skills. Annemarie thought she was really good in the school plays and that she should become an actor. The girls were talking about Lise death before they went to sleep. In the middle of the night their sleep was interrupted by a bang of the door. The Nazi soldiers had come. They were walking around the house when Annemarie realised that Ellen was wearing a Magen David necklace. Ellen was trying to take it of when the soldiers came closer Annemarie grabbed it and pulled it of. The soldiers walked in and go the girls to

In the late 1930s and early 1940s the world experienced very traumatic events. Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany. He banned all political parties, except the Nazis. Two of the families that were affected by his changes were the Franks and the Van Daans. Anne Frank was a member of the Frank family. Her family and the Van Daans experienced what was happening personally. During the time that she was forced to go into hiding, she kept a diary with her. The diary has become very important item for learning about the events that happened. Historical events are reflected in the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” by showing how what’s happening in the outside world affects the families that have had to go into hiding.

During WWII, two families were in hiding. The Frank family and the Van Daan family were hiding together. Both families are Jews and they went into hiding because Jews were being killed by the Nazis. A family member of the Frank family named Anne Frank wrote in a diary. She wrote down information that happened in the Annex. In the next three paragraphs I will talk about courage, compassion, and sacrifice.

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

She then contrasts Sarah’s struggles with an aging journalist named Julia. As it turns out, on an assignment to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the roundup, Julia discovers that the family that she married into has a connection to Sarah. Through her investigative journalism skills, Julia is able to write about history on personal level revealing hidden truths. The French committed a mass atrocity against their own people and sent the members of the Jewish community off to Auschwitz. Those survivors like Sarah were not only mistreated, but their story

“the last name is scratched off.” Without any trace of who it belonged to, Erin felt like she had to personally return it. Following the glimpse of light, she headed towards Hartman Green. Although she hated the moist air and dampness from the rainy night before, she was thankful this time, for every spot of the that the flashes of light had crossed over became dry instantly. As Erin approached the top of the path, she caught sight of who she believed to be Leah. “HEY!” She shouted. Leah disappeared in another beam of light. Beginning to become paranoid, Erin maniacally scoped out all of her surroundings, trying to see where Leah might have gone. She saw nothing. “Something is weird about here too…” She thought, trying to find out what was. After a little while she noticed the inconsistency. What used to be a nice brick red covering the bricks of the bookstore had since bloomed to the shade of a maraschino cherry. “Leah.” She derived. “This has to have something to do with Leah.” Not wanting to lose Leah again, she broke down the path towards Stager, which was unusually empty as well. Once more, she followed the dry path, which was slowly becoming harder and harder to distinguish. “I can’t let her get away this time,” Erin thought. “when the sun passes overhead I will have no guide.” She followed the path all the way up the steps of the bookstore, now searching for the same strawberry-blonde hair she caught a glimpse of earlier. As she entered

Several months more pass, and soon Anne begins to have terrible nightmares. She wakes Mr. Dussel very often. She dreams that the Nazis come to take them. In the works of the nightmares, she hurts her mother’s feelings by rejecting her comfort. Anne will only talk to her father about it. It truly

In 1943 Annmarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen live in Copenhagen, Denmark. Nazi Germany has occupied their country. One day Annemarie, Ellen, and Annemarie’s younger sister Kristi walk home from school. Annemarie and Ellen decide to race but, German soldiers had stoped them on the corner near their apartment building. The Germans question them about a couple of thing so they answer the questions. When Annmarie, Ellen and Kristi arrive home Mrs. Johansen who is Annmaries mom and Mrs. Rosen who is Ellen’s mom are very upset to hear about their daughter’s interacting with the Germans. They warn the girls not to interact with the soldiers.

A. The title of my book is Number The Stars the book is by Lois Lowry

During this time period, Hanukkah is celebrated among the members of the annex and each person receives a small present. The two families and the newly added dentist begin to show off their talents. Mr. van Daan teaches everyone how to preserve meat, whereas the dentist works on Mrs. van Daan’s teeth. Christmas begins to approach them and they are given extra butter rations for Christmas meals. After baking some cakes and cookies, Anne sees a new side to Mrs. van Daan and beings to describe her in a different light. The eight people begin to complete some simple office tasks, which might seem extremely boring to most but it certainly did give them all something to do. Anne tells the reader that she is feeling rather alone again. Like most individuals with siblings,

After the death of her brother, she had recurring nightmares about him. She coped with them by reading with Hans when she woke up in the middle of the night. “Reading The Shoulder Shrug between two and three o’clock each morning, post nightmare, in the basement.” She also comforted her neighbors in the Fiedlers’ basement during the bombings. “[...] she could feel their frightened eyes hanging on to her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out.” Her words were used as a distraction from what was happening around them. She also read to a distraught Frau Holtzapfel after her son, Robert, died in the war. “Frau Holtzapfel sat with wet streams of wire on her

Annemarie Johansen Annemarie Johansen will become a woman of great intelligence, courage, and trustworthiness. She has the intelligence to keep her cool every time she encounters the German soldiers. She has the courage to talk to Uncle Henrik about him and Mama lying to her. Her Mama trusts her to take the basket to Uncle Henrik.