Number the Stars: Analysis

Introduction

• Lois Lowry wrote "Number the Stars" more than twenty years ago.
• The book was awarded the 1990 Newbery Medal.
• The story revolves around how a young girl learns to be brave and courageous in 1943 Denmark, during the German occupation, when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis
• The prototype for Annamarie was a Danish friend from Copenhagen who experienced the war as a child in 1943
• The author hopes this book will remind its readers that a world with human decency is possible

Chapter 1: Why Are You Running?

• Annemarie and Ellen are racing each other in the streets of Copenhagen.
• They are stopped by German soldiers.
• The soldier yells "Halte!," a German word which means "stop!"
• The soldier asks why they are running, in broken Danish
• The girls and little sister, Kirsti, live in northeast Copenhagen.
• Annemarie says they are practicing for school races every Friday.
• Ellen looked pale and frightened, but Annamarie answered the soldier's questions about the girls' names and schooling.
• The soldiers begin chuckling and spoke to each other in German, which Annemarie does not understand
• Ellen whispers how scared she was once the soldiers leave them alone.
• Ellen lives on the second floor and Annemarie on the third floor in the same apartment building.
• Mrs. Johansen and Mrs. Rosen were sipping hot water flavored with herbs due to the Nazi occupation
• There has not been coffee or tea in Copenhagen since the German occupation
• The mothers were chatting about news regarding the Resistance, from the newspaper, De Frie Danske.
• The Resistance fighters were Danish people secretly determined to harm the Nazis.
• The Resistance damaged German trucks, cars, and bombed factories, were known to be very brave, and were sometimes captured and killed.
• Mrs. Rosen asked Annemarie and Ellen to take a different route to school going forward to avoid the soldiers.
• Mrs. Rosen wants the girls to try not draw attention to themselves, because the soldiers will remember their faces
• Mrs. Johansen said that they will have cupcakes again when the soldiers leave.

Chapter 2: Who Is the Man Who Rides Past?

• Kirsti asks Annemarie to tell her a story.
• Annemarie makes up a story of a king and queen and a beautiful daughter until Kirsti falls asleep.
• Annemarie's thoughts turn to the real king, Christian X of Denmark, who is admired and seen as a kind human.
• The King would ride alone on his horse, Jubilee, greeting people each morning
• Annemarie had been taken to wave to the King as a child.
• Lise, Annemarie's older sister, had told her that greeting by the king made her special forever.
• Annemarie remembers a story told by her Papa about the King when the German soldiers moved into the city.
• A German soldier had asked a teenage boy who the king riding the horse was.
• The boy had said that he is the King of Denmark.
• The soldier then asked where the King's bodyguard was.
• The boy replied that all of Denmark is his bodyguard.
• Lise died in an a car accident two weeks before her wedding and would have married Peter Neilsen.
• Peter had once acted like an older brother to Annemarie and Kirsti, but now he is always in a hurry, discussing things they don't understand with her parents.
• The whole world had changed

Chapter 3: Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?

• Annemarie and Ellen walked to school together, avoiding the tall soldier
• Fuel for heat was rationed, making the winter nights terribly cold
• Electricity was rationed, so the Johanssen family used candles for light
• Annemarie must go to Mrs. Hirsch's shop to buy a button for Kirsti's jacket
• School shop is closed with a padlock and German sign
• They say Mrs. Hirsch with her husband and son, Samuel, the previous Saturday
• They think that the Hirsches went on vacation, but vacations have been unachievable since the war
• Annemarie's mother is troubled when she hears about the swastika sign
• Peter Nielsen arrives with seashells and bottles of beer; he learns news that the Germans will close the stores run by Jews
• Peter claims this is the way they choose to torment people
• He says their harm has started to be taken a little at a time
• Annamarie realizes that the Rosens are Jewish Peter says that he believes the Rosens will be alright
• The children and mother will keep an eye on Ellen, and stay away from the soldiers
• Annemarie and Papa are in agreement to be the bodyguard for the Jews
• Annemarie is scared to protect them

Chapter 4: It Will Be a Long Night

• Annemarie and Ellen were playing with paper dolls while waiting for Mama and Kirsti
• Kirsti storms into the room upset with new fish skin shoes
• The package of shoes looks so ugly
• Ellen offers to have her father make them black it was only the green color that was ugly
• If people don't know that they are fish
• They want to play at Tivoli, an amusement park in Copenhagen but it is burned
• Only a month before, there was an explosion and fires in the sky, but Mama said it was fireworks
• Annemarie and Ellen will see the Rosens walking to the synagogue, dressed in their best clothes on Thursday, but they don't have to go to school to the festival
• Ellen will be staying over for a number of days
• Mama said that she can sleep in bed with Kirsti and a big girls giggle together
• Mr. and Mrs. Rosen have been called away to visit some relatives
• Ellen and Annamarie are with Papa, who wishes to protect the girls for a long time
• Her father tells them that the Nazis have taken the synagogue lists with the names of the Jews that plan to arrest the Danish Jews
• If the Nazis take away the neighbors they may not be able to get all 3 of them Ellen has been helped to be taken, as well as they plan to be taken away

Chapter 5: Who Is the Dark-Haired One?

• The girls whisper, to be normal, when it was different, they had to get to bed
• Ellen asks Annemarie how Lise had died, and Ellen confessed she had been hit by a car and was a mystery
• There had been a phone call, and that Peter was apart
• She says that she was the only time being at the funereal at the Lutheran church
• mama used a gold chain that she wore around her neck
• Annemarie wants the rain to stop, so the streets were slippers, and he couldn't see her, and has never looks at
• She tells her sister that she had looked to have been in mental situation in a mental system
• Annemarie could see that big trunk with Lise's
• It was so comforting for Annamarie when the other in ghost stories was easy to do
• Annemarie thinks the girls were so pretty in what they have

Chapter 6: Is the Weather Good for Fishing?

• Annemarie overhears conversation between the father and mother when he realizes The Rosens are in the other stories
• Ellen was the one who had a problem with the way things has changed
• the father and mother went quiet quick after
• She tells how she knows what way of her people are when it comes to their people is to make it safe Papa had made the point after the fact
• They didn't want to risk a thing that day They must not take you up in your ways
• It looked to be going to Henrik's that he could have

Chapter 7: The House by the Sea

• A red roof farmhouse was a little different and crooked
• There was a bird's nest and near by was apples that were still pecked
• Mama and Kristie had gone to the house
• The girls had ran across the wildflower
• The gray water looks to wash damp grass

Chapter 8: There Has Been a Death

• Henrik had started to leace his home to go to the farm
• He wakes up to hearing the music as she slept

Chapter 9: Why Are You Lying?

• She's looking out to the garden after dinner
• mama and Ellen and Kristie was all in the same
• Blossom was milking so she's kneeling on the ground
• the door and the milk the same

Chapter 10: Let Us Open the Casket

• Ellen and Peter and the whole crew
• It's so scary it's kind of scary
• the big house is no long what everything once was

Chapter 11: Will We See You Again Soon, Peter?

• the way you hold the firm cheese
• Ellen followed the whole family in, so they were able to see you as
• There was no longer the time nor chance for such feelings to do what things have done
• She couldn't reach out to get the help of any of them at this time because there would be no choice
• Ellen had to leave at such short time just to take the things done like those
• there was a little kid that came so they had put the items to get everything done
• He has reached in took everything out
• She took the sleep for what they want

Chapter 12: Where Was Mama?

• At the end there is not a perfect way to know the future
• The woman would tell there will be no future for her as well
• to take the help of any of them
• She had reached quick

Chapter 13: Run! As Fast As You Can!

• Annamaire made there quick step
• The way is a big step and she is not the time for it
• she does have something about them this day
• Mama has never lied to me
• Annemarie doesn't understand what the difference in these people are
• but what about her when the people need he who will she protect
• They are not long done and

Chapter 14: On the Dark Path

• Only now, after the woods will she truly see the world and the thing that really happened
• she will have to work after and push her body to work hard without worry That only she may help these people

Chapter 15: My Dogs Smell Meat!

• the reason of the girls was what was on her hand That Annemarie may think of something that may save those

Chapter 16: I Will Tell You Just a Little

• Ellen was so pretty back then what will happen to the world
• is Peter really in the army
• or any more bad things to come

Chapter 17: All This Long Time

What happened with Lise may have been a sign of those problems that would be in front of here What time will we see all this, to only know that nothing will change

• but it only works to get every piece of this going around around

Afterword

• Most of this work is fiction after a friend but there are things that had happened
• this is a great way to push on after all those things to only feel there is a better future for all their country was to look to the people are looking to help those in need to make better things in what they has done She makes it to help those and they will remember you at al