Number the Stars - Chapter Analysis

Why Are You Running?

• Annemarie and Ellen start a race, then are stopped by German soldiers
• Annemarie lives in Copenhagen
• Annemarie is quick to outdistance Ellen
• The girls are stopped by two German soldiers, who speak poor Danish
• Annemarie says they were racing because of athletic races at school every Friday
• One soldier is taller and called "The Giraffe" by Annemarie and Ellen
• The soldiers prod Annemarie's backpack, asking what is inside
• The soldier asks if Annemarie's friend is also a good student, Ellen's rosy cheeks were pale and her eyes wide
• When asked her name, Annemarie says "Annemarie Johansen"
• Ellen nods to the soldier, saying she is a better student than Annemarie
• Kirsti then appears and the soldier strokes Kirsti’s hair
• Kirsti pushes the hand away and loudly says "Don't"
• After laughing, one soldier says Kirsti is pretty, like his daughter
• The soldier tells them to go home and study
• Ellen whispers she was scared, and Annemarie agrees
• At their apartment building, soliders stood with guns: part of every corner of the city
• The mothers are "having coffee", though there has been no real coffee since the Nazi occupation
• Mrs Johansen and Mrs Rosen sip hot water flavored with herbs
• De Frie Danske is an illegal newspaper that Peter Neilsen occasionally brings
• Mrs. Johansen is worried, and asks the girls to take a different way to school
• Mrs. Rosen says it's important to blend in, and not be remembered

Who Is the Man Who Rides Past?

• Annemarie tells Kirsti a fairy tale about a king and queen
• Kirsti asks if the palace is Amalienborg
• The real king is King Christian X, who the people of Denmark love
• He rides his horse, Jubilee, through the streets of Copenhagen each morning
• Annemarie remembers Lise, whose thoughts always made her sad
• Papa told Annemarie that one morning King Christian came by on his morning ride
• A German asked a boy who that man on a horse was
• The boy answered the soldier by saying "He is our King"
• The soldier asked "Where is his bodyguard?"
• The Boy answered "All of Denmark is his bodyguard"
• Annemarie asked Papa if that was tue, and Papa replied that it was, "Any Danish citizen would due for King Christian"
• Lise was to be married to Peter Neilsen
• Norway was crushed by the Nazis
• Sweden is still free
• King Christian was badly injured last year in a fall from his horse, faithful old Jubilee
• Lise died in an accident two weeks before her wedding
• Redheaded Peter, Lise's fiance, has not married anyone in the years since Lise's death
• Papa has also changed, now he is much older and tired/defeated

Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?

• Annemarie and Ellen now take longer routes to school; they were avoiding taller the soldier and his partner.
• There is no fuel in Copenhagen now for homes, so people use candles for light
• There has been no butter or sugar for cupcakes for a year
• When will there be cupcakes again? When then soldiers leave
• Mrs. Hirsch is the shop owner up the street
• Mrs Hirsch's shop is closed with a new padlock and a German sign
• Ellen saw the Hirsch's on saturday, and they looked fine
• Samuel, Mrs Hirsch's son, is tall teenager has thick glasses, with stooped shoulders
• When she reported the news to Mama, Mama asked if she was sure the sign was German, and that it had a swastika on it
• Annemarie asks Mama where she is going, and Mama replies that she is going to talk to Mrs Rosen
• Peter arrives one night, which is dangerous because Copenhagen has a curfew that forbids everyone to be out after 8pm
• Peter brought them each a seashell, which was kind
• He also brought two bottles of beer for Mama and Papa
• Peter says that the German's have issued orders closing many stores run by Jews
• But then Annemarie sits up right, realizing “The Rosens are Jewish, too!”
• Peter says the Rosens will probably be fine
• The Rosens are Jewish (Ellen is Jewish)
• Annemarie now thinks all of Denmark must be a bodyguard for the Jews
• Annemarie thought to herself, in the darkness, that she was glad to be a ordinary to be an ordinary person who would not be called upon for courage.

It Will Be a Long Night

• At the Johansen's apartment, Annemarie and Ellen sit on the floor playing with paper dolls while Kirsti and Mama are out
• Mama takes Kirsti to shop for school shoes when she sees that her old shoes are outgrown
• The new shoes are 'fish' skin as there isn't any more leather
• Green shoes
• Ellen said that she could ask her Father to make them black if she wanted
• Kirsti reluctantly says to make her shoes shiny
• Ellen and Annemarie make the dolls go to Tivoli Gardens, which has been burned
• Kirsti insists that the explosions in the sky by Nazis for her birthday, a month earlier
• Ellen has to go home to help her mother with housecleaning, as Thursday is the Jewish New Year
• Mrs Rosen knocked at their door in the afternoon, but doesn't come in - "It isn't often we have a visitor." -Mama tells Kirsti will sleep with Mama and Papa tonight, and we'll let the big girls giggle together by themselves."
• Mama made a lovely dinner. Ellen was silent at dinner
• Annemarie asked when she and Ellen were alone with Papa in the living room, "Something's wrong. What is it?"
• Papa says he wishes he could protect the knowlege they are about to give them to the children
• He says to Ellen that she already knows, yet they must tell Annemarie
• He explains the synagogue had their congregation, and told them the Nazis have taken lists of all the Jews
• “They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. And we have been told that they may come tonight. -I don't understand! Take them where?" -Ellen doesn't know where.
• "We couldn't take all three of them. If the Germans came to search our apartment, it would be clear that the Rosens were here. One person we can hide. Not three. So Peter has helped Ellen's parents to go elsewhere. We don't know where. Ellen doesn't know either. But they are safe."
• "Papa" Annemarie says, "You said that we would hide her. How can we do that? Where can she hide?"
• Papa smiles and says "That part is easy. It will be as your mama said: you two will sleep together in your bed, and you may giggle and talk and tell secrets to each other. And if anyone comes"
• Papa rises and say "Don't be frightened," he says to them softly. "Once I had three daughters. Tonight I am proud to have three daughters again."

Who Is the Dark-Haired One?

• Ellen asks Annemarie nervously if anyone will come
• Ellen wishes to act and pretend to be Lise.
• "You were great as the Dark Queen in the school play last year,"
• Ellen then strikes an "imperious gesture with her arm, saying ""I am the Dark Queen"
• Ellen askes "They won't really come here, do you think?"
• Annemarie reassures “Not in a million years.”
• "How did your sister die, Annemarie?" Ellen asked suddenly.
• Annemarie doesn't know exactly, other than she was hit by a car and that it was raining
• Annemarie brushed her long hair and handed the hairbrush to her best friend
• Ellen undid her braids, lifted her dark hair away from the gold chain she wore around her neck
• the chain held the Star of David
• Annemarie asks for a candle, saying "Lots of Lise's things are in there. Even her wedding dress. Mama and Papa have never looked at those things, not since the day they"
• That's the worst thing in the world," Ellen whispered.
• "To be dead so young. I wouldn't want the Germans to take my family away to make us live someplace else. But still, it wouldn't be as bad as being dead."
• But it's hours later the pounded on the door. -Annemarie eased the bedroom door open in the night and peeked out
• Annemarie's mother goes and turns on the light and to set the blackout curtains.
• Her father answers a heavy accented speaking German in his native tongue. "I understand you are a friend of your neighbors the Rosens, Mrs. Johansen," the German soldier said angrily.
• "Our name is on the door, and I see you have a flashlight ," Papa answered. "What do you want? Is something wrong?"
• "Another German voice said, "The Rosens' apartment is empty "Well, said Papa, moving in the hall. "as you see, you are mistaken "You will not object if we look around." The German voice was harsh.
• "It seems we have no choice," Papa replied.
• The soldiers start to move past the bedrooms
• "Ellen", whispered urgently - Ellen must remove the necklace -Ellen can't open. and Annemarie tears its way and is "crumpled in her hand".
• "Your names?" a German guard said. "Quiet! let them speak for themselves", He was glaring
• "He laughed scornfully. "if you have a blond child sleeping in the bedroom, it is known"
• In Annmarie's quickness before the Germans "What are you doing here?!" from taking action.
• Papa moved swiftly to the small family bookcase and then took out a family photograph album
• Annmarie knew that the baby had been born 21 years earlier. The German looks for Kirsten and Annmarie records
• The Nazi officer left a cold room by the end of the German

Is the Weather Good for Fishing?

• Annemarie's mind is racing so fast "We must think what to do," Papa said. "They are suspicious, now." -“I'm sorry I have dark hair," Ellen murmured.
• "It made them suspicious."
• "Friends will take care of them,” Mama said gently. "That's what friends do." -Mama told to Sophy Rosen this afternoon. The day didn't end -Peter said I think the Rosens will be all right,"
• Peter tells AnnaMarie to keep an eye on her friend Ellen. “I I think the Rosens will be all right,"Your mother told me about what happened on Østerbrogade.”
• "Do you remember what you heard the boy say to the soldier? That all of Denmark would be the king's bodyguard?"
• Her father smiled, remembering those days. "I have never forgotten it.

The House by the Sea

• Annemarie says that the house is beautiful
• Annemarie and Ellen run, in their shoes, across the field among the flowers
• They go to the water among the reeds and the stones -Ellen says "The house is not as beautiful as Sweden" but "We may see them again" -Ellen has never seen the sea so close up
• She never talked to anyone?" Annemarie shook her head. ""Just the kitten".
• One of Henrik’s friend
• They must hide if anyone comes
• After some time in the water, the girls come back to the house, where it is very comfortable
• She touched her neck, says "That's my gold star! Papa gave it to me when I was very, very small."
• They could watch through the window the moon among the stars -What are they doing?"
• They are down there talking Mama says
• No laughter and no one is there

There Has Been a Death

• Henrik and Annemarie go the next day to help by "the shore"
• In the kitchen is Kirsti, and Mama does make Oatmeal she says
• "It is just like he said, as “they relocate butter that farmers don’t have.”
• But in a house by the shore a bird flew down -Ellen comes there now, so all might be "to" Annemarie’s surprise. -A cat ran by. It’s name has been called, and it is like a "kitten" -It was not the end, in a house by the old way and she called the doctor by the telephone -The old way and The barn

Why Are You Lying?

• A man named Henrik said
• "Are you lying to me!" with their words
• The man tells her the story and says their last name
• He tells the story and says a few details, to be safe
• “My friend is there” He said

Let Us Open the Casket

• "You are all here now, so "said" Henrik
• In the front in that room, a baby who had said goodbye
• ""Good Night","He said for a firm quick

Will We See You Again Soon, Peter?

• Anemarie asks "What what if not be it? Where are you""
• "It will be all right," she thinks -Mama tells her to let this room stay 30 minutes after being seen -Peter says "So I’ll say it to myself."
• He thanks her. It to me now
• Then it’s right. The day had then went

Where Was Mama?

• They are on the shore and then they are gone
• Anna is on her own and feels it a little
• She goes there in half an hour. -But they had the last time to stay by her
• Everything is fine
• It has a long way to go - where will that be when they return"

Run! As Fast As You Can!

• Annmarie, the girls come right to this "to" the day. -The day will shine right through. It is safe this time
• Mama's voice cracks and she says. “They told you where to have these”
• "But, where do I see it?"
• But this all went away so much as this to change things.
• That said to come away then. And just run like you can.

On the Dark Path

• A girl, who they will be right in the future for a long time to see
• To the future, where is all could this be? -Those memories were never this, "those of""the" wolves came

My Dogs Smell Meat!

• This path that a "girl “
• To keep these thoughts and run as fast as you possible could.
• A man stood there who asked "what what for"
• Another man said " I smell and "
• They then left this as you are back through the words

I Will Tell You Just a Little

• A "boy" was said, as he went on a long trail.
• Was this man a son or there were no others
• "I am not " her friend will say

All This Long Time

• "They, were were young" to be kind
• Then that's said, ""I will do"
• So, for now all the world

Afterword

• Annelise Platt was in Denmark
• Christian X, was good "with "them
• The "Danes sank own harbor""" - and Annalise saw the "ships with explosions"
• G.F. Duckwitz, was a German and high official who said.
• "Powder""the, blood was to attract"