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    train sent the Jewish members to Auschwitz. These trains carried in excess a number of thousand of victims. They had no space to sit, no food and just one bucket for water and bathroom necessities. Many victims carried in these trains died during the journey

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    Annemarie’s Adventure In Number the Stars Annemarie displays great characteristics of cleverness, courage, and thoughtfulness. She constantly shows cleverness throughout the war. Her cleverness leads to her courage which is relentless. She embraces thoughtfulness to her family and friends in the war also. Her traits of cleverness, courage, and thoughtfulness are extremely important to the protection of her family and friends in the war and throughout Number the Stars. Annemarie embraces

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    In the story Number the Stars Annemarie is faced with problems and difficulties that she has to overcome. She is affected with her lies and truths. Annemarie has different relationships with the adults in her life, in her story, throughout the book, Annemarie changes from girlhood to womanhood. Annemarie tells lies and truths, but she also has been told lies too. Annemarie's parents lied to her in the story about Lise’s death. They said she was in a car accident, but later on, her parents come clean

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    An example of this specific example of bravery is in the novel : Number the Stars, where the Johansen’s hide their really close friend from the Nazi’s. Another act of bravery comes from a part in the story when Annemarie has to go through the woods to deliver a letter to her uncle. On the way through the woods, she encounters a couple of soldiers with dogs, and she was brave enough to play them off. So in the book Number the Stars, several characters have performed acts of bravery throughout the

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    Number the Stars Literary Analysis Were Annemarie and Ellen really true friends? Does a true friend risk their life to save another’s? One of the many themes in Number The Stars by Lois Lowry is “true friends will do anything for each other,” and this true. Annemarie and Ellen show this when they were in bed right before the German Soldiers came into their room, when Annemarie was saying goodbye to Ellen, and when Annemarie was running down the dark path. Early in the

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    In the novel Number the Stars, Annemarie is lied to for her own protection, she just doesn't know it. When she is being lied to, it is usually because the families are doing something illegal, something bad happened or is happening, or the families don’t think she is mature enough to. In one situation in the book, the family is going to smuggle the Rosens into Sweden because Sweden is free. When father had a phone call with Uncle Henrick, he used code not only to keep it a seceret from the Nazis

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    winning novels. The current novel been explored is Number in The Stars by Lois Lowry. Before that, it was Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet. I’m curious as to the next novel the students will read, but first I must complete reading the Number in The Stars. I am a fan of the author. I’ve read several of her books, which includes – The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger and Son. I was contemplating to read the Number in The Stars but my student teaching assignment began and I instead

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    "Number the Stars” has many themes. The one theme that is shown all throughout the book is bravery. Annemarie showed a lot of bravery throughout the book. I have four examples of the bravery Annemarie showed in the story. The first example is how she ran through the forest trying to deliver the package as fast as she could. She was brave by knowing she could be killed for doing a job like this. She also had to be brave while hearing strange unknown noises in the forest. When she met the

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    The historical fiction book, “Number the Stars”, was written by Lois Lowry. It was published in 1989. It is set in September 1943 in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark which is the third year of the Nazi occupation of Denmark and the Danish people had lost many of their freedoms. The theme of the story is the difficulty of growing up with the context of World War II as a way to point out these difficulties in an abstract and relatable way. Annemarie Johansen, a ten-year-old, portrays the difficult times

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    Ⅰ. The Basics A. The title of my book is Number The Stars the book is by Lois Lowry B. My book was published in 1989 Ⅱ. Setting [time and place] A. The story takes place in 1943 in Germany. The period time is authentic because that is when Denmark surrendered to Germany in the war. The place is real because germany started the war and then denmark surrendered to them. B. Some details that describe the historical period is that they travel around on horses or horse drawn carriages. They

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