Number the Stars: Novel Analysis

Number the Stars

• The book published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is titled Number The Stars
• The book is written by Lois Lowry
• It is copyright 1989

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Why Are You Running?
• Chapter 2: Who Is the Man Who Rides Past?
• Chapter 3: Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?
• Chapter 4: It Will Be a Long Night
• Chapter 5: Who Is the Dark-Haired One?
• Chapter 6: Is the Weather Good for Fishing?
• Chapter 7: The House by the Sea
• Chapter 8: There Has Been a Death
• Chapter 9: Why Are You Lying?
• Chapter 10: Let Us Open the Casket
• Chapter 11: Will We See You Again Soon, Peter?
• Chapter 12: Where Was Mama?
• Chapter 13: Run! As Fast As You Can!
• Chapter 14: On the Dark Path
• Chapter 15: My Dogs Smell Meat!
• Chapter 16: I Will Tell You Just a Little
• Chapter 17: All This Long Time

Introduction

• The author reminisces about writing Number the Stars over twenty years ago and its lasting impact.
• Number the Stars was awarded the 1990 Newberry Medal
• Readers connect with protagonists, questioning choices and ethics.
• The book is translated to multiple languages including Hungarian and Hebrew.
• The book has been published in various countries.
• The book has been translated into "countless different languages"
• Readers told the author that the book made think about both cruelty and courage.
• Prototype was the childhood Danish friend of author in Copenhagen, 1943

Why Are You Running?

• Annemarie and Ellen are racing each other in Osterbrogade, Northeast Copenhagen.
• Two German soldiers stop Annemarie and Ellen on Osterbrogade while Kirsti lags behind.
• Annemarie describes 'the Giraffe'
• Annemarie confidently states they're racing for school races every Friday.
• She tells the soldier her name is Annemarie Johansen
• Annemarie says Ellen is a better student than her.
• Kirsti gives the soldier attitude and slaps his hand away.
• Annemarie and Ellen made it home and Kirsti told their mothers about the incident although she wasn't scared.
• There has been no real tea or coffee since the Nazi occupation, they drink herb flavored hot water
• The mothers mentioned the bombing in Hillerod and Norrebro which were in the illegal newspaper De Frie Danske
• Resistance fighters are Danish people that cause harm and sabotage to Nazi war efforts.
• Mrs.Rosen asks Annemarie and Ellen to take a different route to school the next day.
• Kirsti is happy the soldier said she looks like his daughter and is pretty.
• No butter or cupcakes for at least a year, when the soldiers leave.

Who Is the Man Who Rides Past?

• Annemarie tells Kirsti a story of a king, queen and princess, and Kirsti falls asleep
• Annemarie thinks of the real King Christian X and how Denmark loved him.
• King Christian rode Jubilee each morning through the streets of Copenhagen greeting people.
• Lise told Annemarie that if she was greeted by the King she would be "special forever"
• Annemarie remembers Papa telling about a German soldier that asked a child who the King that rides past each morning
• Kid states "All of Denmark is his bodyguard."
• Three years ago Lise was to be married to Peter Neilsen
• King Christian injured in a fall from his horse Jubilee and all of Denmark mourned.
• Lise died in an accident
• Annemarie recites "And they lived happily ever after."

Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?

• Annemarie and Ellen are taking a longer route to school to avoid the soldiers.
• The winter months in Copenhagen are terribly cold as there is no fuel.
• The Johansen family had to install a stove to use coal for heat, as electricity is now rationed.
• Ellen's father cannot see well enough in the dark to correct his students' papers.
• When Mrs. Johansen was buttoning Kirsti's jacket, she saw that a button was broken in half.
• Mrs. Johansen gave Annemarie some kroner and asked her to take Kirsti after school to Mrs. Hirsch's to buy one.
• After school however, Mrs. Hirsch's shop is closed with a German sign.
• Annemerie and Ellen saw the Hirsch's on Saturday; they all looked fine.
• Hirsches boy, Samuel, was a lanky teenager with thick glasses, stooped shoulders, and unruly hair.
• bicycle had wooden wheels as there was no rubber, and creaked and clattered.
• Kirst states the Hirsch's went on vacation to the seashore, and that they took pink-frosted cupcakes.
• Mama was troubled when she heard the news and asked whether the sign was German.
• Annemarie stated the sign had a swastika on it.
• Her mother told her to begin peeling potatoes for dinner and that she wanted to talk to Mrs.Rosen.
• Annemarie was almost asleep, but her mother woke her up as Peter Neilsen was there and they wanted to talk.
• Peter has sea shells for Annemarie and Kirsti; 2 bottles of beer for the parents
• Peter said the Germans are closing shops run by jews.
• Ammemarie asks" Is Mrs Hirsch Jewish?"
• Mama states "Friends will take care of them"
• Peter stated the Rosens will "be alright"

It Will Be a Long Night

• Annemarie, Ellen and Kirsti are playing with paper dolls.
• Mama and Kirsti come back home both worked up because Kirsti doesn't like her new green fish shoes
• Ellen offers to take the fish skin shoes home that night and have her father make them black using ink.
• Ellen suggests the dolls visit Tivoli.
• August was Kirsti's Birthday where she was awakened to a large boom because the Danes destroyed their fleet.
• Ellen goes to synagogue, while Annemarie and Kirsti go to school on Thursday before that night

Who Is the Dark-Haired One?

• Ellen and Annemarie are in the bedroom.
• Annemarie states "They're always threatening stuff."
• Ellen says "I wish I were taller, though." Ellen tried to make herself tall.
• The girls found themselves whispering as they got ready for bed.
• Ellen said "I never knew just what happened."

Is the Weather Good for Fishing?

• Mama makes tea.
• Ellen says her parents have always told her that education is the most important thing and that she will never go to school.
• Mama states they must take the girls to henrik's today.
• Annemarie wonders out loud "Where does he go at five in the morning?"
• Annemarie remembered what Peter had told them on the phone.
• Annemarie states he has a little cough and says that she will be bringing to you a carton of cigarettes.
• Mama and Uncle Henrik grew up and where to stand at the edge of the meadow and look across to Sweden.
• Mama sees Ellan on the opposite side of the world
• At around p.m., when henrik says that the wind they stopped.
• Mama remembers the story about the moon

The House by the Sea

• They arrived on their train and walked towards the house by the sea.
• They all took their clothes off to show off their sea legs
• Ellen says, with awe in her voice, "it is beautiful,"
• A bird's nest, wispy with straw, was half hidden in the corner where the roof met the wall above a bedroom window.
• Ellen says "My mother is afraid of the ocean,". "She says it is too big for her. And too cold!"
• She picked up a green leave with the letter S
• The girl stood on the beach

There Has Been a Death

• One morning, after she woke again, it was morning.
• Blossom shook her head irritatadly
• Mama made oatmeal, and there was a pitcher of cream on the table and butter.
• "Fresh from Blossom," she said. "Henrik milks her every morning before he leaves for the boat.
• Usually not even Henrik has butter, but he managed to save a little this time.
• Annemarie adds that the word "relocate"
• "They do," she said. "They relocate all the farmers' butter, right into the stomach of their army!
• Annemarie felt as though she understood now that everything that has come the right way
• "I did too," she said belligerently. "It was my birthday.
• The next evening's newspaper had told the sad truth. The Danes had destroyed their own naval fleet, blowing up the vessels

Why Are You Lying?

• Annemarie went outside alone after supper
• Blossom. He was kneeling on the strawcovered floor beside the cow, his shoulder pressed against her heavy side, his strong tanned
• "Uncle Henrik," Annemarie said suddenly, her voice cold
• You and Mama both.you look up at people.
• She's the girl of my dreams
• "The boy looked right at the soldier
• annnerise says Her mother had said, "You'll come back to the story She stopped on the girl
• ""they live long and

Let Us Open the Casket

• The officer tore the photograph in half and tored it so much that they were.
• Henrik goes off.
• A light knocks before they were gone
• • "It is the hearse," he said then before the door closed behind him.
• But there are not any more.
• The old ones where now the bed — They were about.The first word in the world what people have. And

Will We See You Again Soon, Peter?

• Annemarie blinked across his face
• There is not no name in her chest
• "Where is your arm around those times to —But so much was she that they can get the one more all of them."
• Ellen said
• This for the little girl will keep her

Where Was Mama?

• Mr. Rosen tripped on the loose step outside the kitchen door. HIs wife grasped his arm, and he regained his balance.
• "They are the all very and very and everyonel
• She didn't remember before from his face What is that all and those and those and those that come for here

Run! As Fast As You Can!

• "I'm gonna leave." So she had just said
• Annemarie runs in the garden and went to the home Mama came back when someone had to pull his self on the roof and "Why run." was she asking because if they were the girl in the room at was a child who lived the one by the road

On the Dark Path

• "Was not be" She started to say. "What the girl comes that is coming in "She was not" So annmarie goes there before the day would take But "and had that the child was coming for the home" The thing had come and her legs for the sun to

My Dogs Smell Meat!

• Was the smell of earth? What has the soldier and had in the mind to the people

I Will Tell You Just a Little

• Uncle henrik helped as a doctor to and was not for a reason for the world
• "But that is that!" He said when someone comes from that

All This Long Time

• The war was over and that was there came to the town was here for all if the people had done that if everything had done that where if there's a reason

Explore character motivations and plot significance in 'Number the Stars'. Analyze Annemarie’s urgency, Mama's deception, and Papa's actions. Understand the importance of details like Kirsti's sleep and photograph dates.