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In the beginning of the novel, the two friends, Annemarie and Ellen, are racing through the streets of Copenhagen when they are stopped by Nazi soldiers. The soldiers question them, and then one soldier comments that Annemarie's sister, Kristie, looks like his own daughter. Why do you think the author chooses to begin the novel with this scene? How does this scene set up the conflict that will run throughout the novel?
A big problem in Number the Stars is that the big war is going on. All Jewish people in Copenhagen are especially wanted by the Nazi's. Since Annemarie's best friend, Ellen, is Jewish, she needs protection. So Ellen goes and lives with Annemarie's family. The rest of her family goes with Peter to find another secure place. This explains that you should always help other people with their problem. So, Annemarie's family is a very good example.
Responding to the quetion that Mrs.Kuhn wrote at the end of her comment, I think that the author choose this begining because he wants us to know that it is not safe to run on the streets because of the wars. Well, it is ok to run in the streets, but since it was war, they had to take care of everthing that they did, that people did. Maybe the soldiers thought they were running away and the soldiers wanted to stop them. I am not sure why they wanted to stop them, but that is my guess. Also, in the book, on page 5,it mentionns that the soldier said that Annemaries sister, Kirste, looked like his little girl. Maybe, from far, he saw her... but I don't think that is why the soldiers stoped them. Now, talking about war, they did not have sugar, cupcakes, and more. Kirste is sad about that. I would be sad about that and I would hate it. I mean, that is not the worst thing that can happen to you.
*Finishing my comment from before, having war is terrible. I mean, i have never and never want to or expect to be in a period of time were my country is in war. I mean, you would suffer so much and it is just so horrible. Imagine how terrible it would be even if you only have heard about it and already think that it is bad. I feel sad for Annemarie, having to go through all this stuff. On page 22, Annemarie's really good friend, almost like a brother, comes and talkes to Annemarie. He is not allowed to be in their house at night, because he is citizen. It says this "Peter! She hadn't seen him in a long time. There was something frightening about his being here at night. Copenhagen had a curfew, and no citizens were allowed out after eight o' clock. It was very dangerous, she knew, fro Peter to visit at this time." This part of the book takes place at Annemarie's house. I think that it is really weird that they can't be out aftere eight o' clock. I just don't get it. Why would there be a curfew for citizen? Anyways, I also want to talk about the Jews. When Peter comes over to their house, they talk about what happened to Mrs.Hirsch. Mrs.Hirsch has a store that sales buttons and threads. They closed the store not because they want to, but because they have to. All the Jews have to close their shops and stop their jobs. It is sad. I mean it is unequalized and inequitable. Obiosly, there is a reason why. If you go to page 23 and 24. One qoute is: "It is their way of tormenting. For some reason, they want to torment Jewish people. It has happened in the other countries. They have taken their time here - have let us relax a little. But now it seems to be starting." If anyone does not know what torment means, it means:–verb (used with object) to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches. So, this quote means that they want the Jews to suffer by not having jobs. Before there was not tormenting, but it is beginning, again. They are being "mean." Or maybe they are doing it for some reason of security. I don't get it why people were so mean and had different privileges for different religions. Later, I want to see what happens to the Jews, even though some of them will be helped by some friends. SO FAR A AM LIKING THE BOOK. P.S:I am not going to write so, much, but I just wanted to finish my comment. Next week, I will write more.
John, I agree with you that there is a big problem in the book. War is terrible and it sucks. I mean, war is caused by disagreements. It is just a waste a time and people. People are dying and it is not very pleasant to have people dying for a king or their country. Well, I mean it is fine. They make the decision.
I am just going to write about Ellen's family Her family is Jewish. They are going to have to close their stores or not work and Ellen has to move into Annemarie's house, with Annemarie's family. I would feel sad if my family had to close all their stores or stop their jobs. It would be so terrible thining that you don't have enough money or you don't have a place to stay at because you don't have enough money. I would try my best to find or get money, not stealing money. That is all. P.S; I had to write another comment of my own because nobody else put anymore comments.
I think that Annemarie's family will maybe get in trouble later by doing two things. For the first, when Annemarie, Ellen and Kirsti, are running on the street, and they got stoped by the Nazi's. This wasn't good since one of the soldiers thinks Kisrtie looks like his own daughter. And the soldiers maybe get suspicious and may think they are hiding something. Another thing is that they are helping Ellen's family to become safe from the Nazi's. If the nazi's ever discovers that, they will get in big trouble. So, this were two reasons why I think annemarie's family will get in trouble later in the book.
Camila wrote about Ellen's family. I feel very sorry for their family, I mean they'll have to close jobs and everything like all jewish families. I also think it's terrible they don't have any money. Although lots of friends give food to them, it's still not nice. I think it's very nice from Annemarie's family to help them, although they are breaking the law. So, agree with Camila about what she says about Ellen's family.
I'm going to explain this quote from page 8-9: "It is important to be one of the crowd, always. Be one of many. Be sure they never have a reason to remember your face." It explains you shouldn't do anything you're not supposed to do. Like when they are running, because then the soldiers will become suspicious. Annemarie's mother says this to warn them. She wants to amke sure they have no reason to be sewed in. So, this explains what the quote means.
Annemarie, Mrs. Johansen, Ellen, and Kirsti went to Mrs. Johansens brother, Henrik's house, which far from Copenhagen. This place is where Mrs. Johansen grew up. She tells them everything about how it was, and that her dog used to walk with her to school and then go home by herself. They went here, because they think it's safer to be here for Ellen. There are not as much soldiers there, although there are some. So, this place is much safer for Ellen.
In the next chapters, Ellen and Annemarie's family are in their house and they are disturbed by three soldiers banging on their door. They get the door and the soldiers check the whole house to see if any of Ellen's family was there. Ellen is to fake to be Lisa,a Annemarie's dead sister. The plan works out and the soldiers leave, but they leave suspicious. For Ellen to be alright, they take her one day to Mrs. Johansen's brother, Henrirk's house. They brang Ellen there because they thought it would be safe for Ellen to be there. One reason is because Ellen can't stay all the time at Copehangen, or they can take her away. Second, there were practically no soldiers in that location, so it was easier to be "free." Third, Ellen could not go to school because maybe the soldiers would go to the school and check who is Jewish and they could get suspiciou and take her away. So, it is a really good idea that Ellen, Annemarie, Kirstie, and Mrs. Johansen to leave Copenhagen.
Last comment of my one, I think that it is smart that Mr. Johansen does not go to Henrik's house because if the soldiers come to the house, and it is empty, the soldiers will know the truth and go after them. They will stay really supicious, but if Mr. Jonahnsen stays, they will know that the rest of the family just went out. It will block the truth.
Responding to John's comment, when you said that the quote you wrote, that was on page 8-9, I kind-of disagree with your explanation. Well, I sort of do. First, the quote explains that you don't want to be the crowd, you want to be part of the crowd. The crowd is to big, and maybe it is a bad crowd, so you will be recognized as bad. Now, if you are part of the crowd, you will have less chance of being remembered. I still sort of agree with you.
I have to write my own comment since only John has put a post: I am wondering if at the end of the book, both Ellen's parents are alive. I mean , where did they go? In the book it does not mention. I am just curious. How would you feel if your parents were forced to leave you, and you don't know where they are, don't know if they could still be alive, or if they are going to die? It is a tragic story... well, sort of. I am not really enjoying the book. It's ok, but not that bad. I maybe not be at the best part yet. I will have to read more.
I totally disagree with you. I think this book is telling a really awsome story, where poeple are in danger. The story is told in a way which you don`t want to stop reading because the book has so much mistery. By creating mystery, the author manages to make ME never want to stop reading. Even if the story sucks, as I am a curious person I wouldn`t want to stop reading because I would need to know the end, the solutions, the answers to the problem. Well, thats just my opinion, and yes Camila, rea further and you won't manage to stop reading.
In the book Number the Stars, i found a strategy that Louis Lowry uses to make me never stop reading. She places her characters in danger. For example in the beggining of the book she places them in danger when she makes the soldiers talk to them. Later on, she makes Ellen pretend she is Lisa, and it goes on and on. That makes me never want to stop reading becuase I need to know what happens; if they willmanage to be safe. Because of that I don`t stop reading. What about you guys?
While reading the chapter that Ellen pretends to be Annemarrie's dead sister Lisa, i though they would not be caught but know, while we are leading to the middle of the book, I find that they will soon be caught, and that Annemarrie is probbably going to be taken to the consentration field in Ellen's place because Ellen and her family ran away. I think they will ta her because she lied with the purpose to save her, and know she will have to pay for making the wrong choices.
As many people have told me, they said the book is going to be sad, so that leads me to think that someone is going to die, so I think that or Ellen or Annemarie are going to di. What about you guys?
Yes they say that it si safer for Ellen there, but do you really think that. MAybe it is safer for her physically, but probbably not emotionally. I have a best friend and I think it would be impossible fot me to live without her. I would probbably be sad everyday, and never manage to sleep. If I where in Annemarie's place it would be even worse,because Ellen new her best friends wasn't in danger, but Annemarrie didn't know if Ellen was safe or not. I would probbably feel guilty everyday, and cry every night.
In Number the Stars Ellen and Annemarie grow up differently, I'm going to explain why I think their way of growing up is either good or bad. Annemarie grows up and stands in front of a big challenge, to safe her friend Ellen. It is worse for Ellen and her family. Ellen grows up in a Jewish family. Her family needs to hide from the German soldiers. I don't think it's a very good way to grow up and at the same time hiding from the soldiers. For Annemarie, I don't think it's a very good way to grow up. They are actually breaking the law by helping the Rosén's. Although it's really good that they help them, I don't think it's a very good way to raise children at the same time. The children may think it's correctly to break the law then. So, I think the way Annemarie and Ellen grow up is good, but not perfect.
I totally agree with her. I think it's very weird that you don't get to know where Ellen's parents are. They will probably show up in the end of the novel, but still I want to know where they went. Did they leave Copenhagen? Or did they leave Denmark? I don't like when you don't get your questions answered till the end of the book. So, I agree with Camila that it's weird they don't say anything about Ellen's parents.
I agree with Barbara that Lois Lowry uses a special strategy to keep us reading. I relly think it's good that the author makes you continue reading. If there wouldn't be so many times you get really curious I would have stopped reading. And also I think it's sometimes good to have unanswered questions. If there wouldn't be, everything would be boring in the book. So, I agree with Barbara that Lois Lowry uses a very good strategy to keep us reading.
Number the Stars had some unanswered questions that you might want to know the answer to. This book, I think was very good, because all the questions I wanted to know got answered. Some of my questions were: How did Lise die?, Will the war end before the book finishes?, Will the rosens come back to Denmark? Those were three questions I wanted to know the answer to. For each of them I got an answer. For the first one, the answer is: She died by being hit by a car while she was running from a secret place, which the soldiers had discovered. The answer to the second question is: The war came to an end before the book was over, but before, Peter Nielsen got killed by the soldiers for helping so many Jewish people to hide. The answer to the second question is: The Rosen's didn't come back from Sweden, I thought they were going to come back though. So, I really liked this book, because the unanswered questions got answered in the end.
Number the Stars gives you a bunch of important theme's. The most important theme given is that you should always be brave. In the book, Annemarie was always brave. If she wouldn't have been so brave, she wouldn't have saved her best friend, Ellen. Also, if she wouldn't have been brave enough, for example, when she met the soldiers in the middle of the night in the forest, they would have discovered that she was lying. All the time when she met the soldiers, it was important to be brave, and she was. I also think that Annemarie is a very good example about being brave. So, it is very important to be brave.
You asked if we think that somebody would die, because someone said to you that there was going to be a sad ending. Although now i finished the book, and I know who died and who didn't, I was thinking that someone had died when the chapter was called: "There has been a death!" i though that it might have been someone from Ellen's family. I thought so, because it didn't say anything about the rest of Ellens family for a while. So, I thought that someone from Ellen's family had died, and not Ellen or Annemarie.
I totally agree with you that it's very smart that Mr. Johansen satys in Copenhagen. Camila says that the soldiers might become suspicious. I also think so, and since the Rosens and they, live in the same apartment. It's is quite obvious that they are friends and might help them. But if Mr. Johansen is home, the soldiers might think, as Camila said, that the rest of the family is just not at home for the moment. So, I agree with Camila about what she says.
Barbara, John, Mrs.Kuhn: I could not copy my comment on this blog, so I sent it to your e-mails. You might be wondering why I had to copy paste, but the internet was not working, for this reason, I had to write it on word, and when the internet came, it would not paste. I was mad... But I still did my work. Thanks
In the beginning of the novel, the two friends, Annemarie and Ellen, are racing through the streets of Copenhagen when they are stopped by Nazi soldiers. The soldiers question them, and then one soldier comments that Annemarie's sister, Kristie, looks like his own daughter.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think the author chooses to begin the novel with this scene? How does this scene set up the conflict that will run throughout the novel?
A big problem in Number the Stars is that the big war is going on. All Jewish people in Copenhagen are especially wanted by the Nazi's. Since Annemarie's best friend, Ellen, is Jewish, she needs protection. So Ellen goes and lives with Annemarie's family. The rest of her family goes with Peter to find another secure place. This explains that you should always help other people with their problem. So, Annemarie's family is a very good example.
ReplyDeleteResponding to the quetion that Mrs.Kuhn wrote at the end of her comment, I think that the author choose this begining because he wants us to know that it is not safe to run on the streets because of the wars. Well, it is ok to run in the streets, but since it was war, they had to take care of everthing that they did, that people did. Maybe the soldiers thought they were running away and the soldiers wanted to stop them. I am not sure why they wanted to stop them, but that is my guess.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in the book, on page 5,it mentionns that the soldier said that Annemaries sister, Kirste, looked like his little girl. Maybe, from far, he saw her... but I don't think that is why the soldiers stoped them.
Now, talking about war, they did not have sugar, cupcakes, and more. Kirste is sad about that. I would be sad about that and I would hate it. I mean, that is not the worst thing that can happen to you.
*Finishing my comment from before,
ReplyDeletehaving war is terrible. I mean, i have never and never want to or expect to be in a period of time were my country is in war. I mean, you would suffer so much and it is just so horrible. Imagine how terrible it would be even if you only have heard about it and already think that it is bad. I feel sad for Annemarie, having to go through all this stuff.
On page 22, Annemarie's really good friend, almost like a brother, comes and talkes to
Annemarie. He is not allowed to be in their house at night, because he is citizen. It says this "Peter! She hadn't seen him in a long time. There was something frightening about his being here at night. Copenhagen had a curfew, and no citizens were allowed out after eight o' clock. It was very dangerous, she knew, fro Peter to visit at this time." This part of the book takes place at Annemarie's house. I think that it is really weird that they can't be out aftere eight o' clock. I just don't get it. Why would there be a curfew for citizen?
Anyways, I also want to talk about the Jews. When Peter comes over to their house, they talk about what happened to Mrs.Hirsch. Mrs.Hirsch has a store that sales buttons and threads. They closed the store not because they want to, but because they have to. All the Jews have to close their shops and stop their jobs.
It is sad. I mean it is unequalized and inequitable. Obiosly, there is a reason why. If you go to page 23 and 24. One qoute is:
"It is their way of tormenting. For some reason, they want to torment Jewish people. It has happened in the other countries. They have taken their time here - have let us relax a little. But now it seems to be starting."
If anyone does not know what torment means, it means:–verb (used with object)
to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
So, this quote means that they want the Jews to suffer by not having jobs.
Before there was not tormenting, but it is beginning, again. They are being "mean." Or maybe they are doing it for some reason of security. I don't get it why people were so mean and had different privileges for different religions. Later, I want to see what happens to the Jews, even though some of them will be helped by some friends. SO FAR A AM LIKING THE BOOK.
P.S:I am not going to write so, much, but I just wanted to finish my comment.
Next week, I will write more.
John,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that there is a big problem in the book. War is terrible and it sucks. I mean, war is caused by disagreements. It is just a waste a time and people. People are dying and it is not very pleasant to have people dying for a king or their country. Well, I mean it is fine. They make the decision.
I am just going to write about Ellen's family
ReplyDeleteHer family is Jewish. They are going to have to close their stores or not work and Ellen has to move into Annemarie's house, with Annemarie's family.
I would feel sad if my family had to close all their stores or stop their jobs. It would be so terrible thining that you don't have enough money or you don't have a place to stay at because you don't have enough money. I would try my best to find or get money, not stealing money. That is all.
P.S; I had to write another comment of my own because nobody else put anymore comments.
I think that Annemarie's family will maybe get in trouble later by doing two things. For the first, when Annemarie, Ellen and Kirsti, are running on the street, and they got stoped by the Nazi's. This wasn't good since one of the soldiers thinks Kisrtie looks like his own daughter. And the soldiers maybe get suspicious and may think they are hiding something. Another thing is that they are helping Ellen's family to become safe from the Nazi's. If the nazi's ever discovers that, they will get in big trouble. So, this were two reasons why I think annemarie's family will get in trouble later in the book.
ReplyDeleteReponding to Camila:
ReplyDeleteCamila wrote about Ellen's family. I feel very sorry for their family, I mean they'll have to close jobs and everything like all jewish families. I also think it's terrible they don't have any money. Although lots of friends give food to them, it's still not nice. I think it's very nice from Annemarie's family to help them, although they are breaking the law. So, agree with Camila about what she says about Ellen's family.
Writing my own comment since only Camila wrote:
ReplyDeleteI'm going to explain this quote from page 8-9: "It is important to be one of the crowd, always. Be one of many. Be sure they never have a reason to remember your face." It explains you shouldn't do anything you're not supposed to do. Like when they are running, because then the soldiers will become suspicious. Annemarie's mother says this to warn them. She wants to amke sure they have no reason to be sewed in. So, this explains what the quote means.
Annemarie, Mrs. Johansen, Ellen, and Kirsti went to Mrs. Johansens brother, Henrik's house, which far from Copenhagen. This place is where Mrs. Johansen grew up. She tells them everything about how it was, and that her dog used to walk with her to school and then go home by herself. They went here, because they think it's safer to be here for Ellen. There are not as much soldiers there, although there are some. So, this place is much safer for Ellen.
ReplyDeleteIn the next chapters, Ellen and Annemarie's family are in their house and they are disturbed by three soldiers banging on their door. They get the door and the soldiers check the whole house to see if any of Ellen's family was there. Ellen is to fake to be Lisa,a Annemarie's dead sister. The plan works out and the soldiers leave, but they leave suspicious. For Ellen to be alright, they take her one day to Mrs. Johansen's brother, Henrirk's house. They brang Ellen there because they thought it would be safe for Ellen to be there. One reason is because Ellen can't stay all the time at Copehangen, or they can take her away. Second, there were practically no soldiers in that location, so it was easier to be "free." Third, Ellen could not go to school because maybe the soldiers would go to the school and check who is Jewish and they could get suspiciou and take her away.
ReplyDeleteSo, it is a really good idea that Ellen, Annemarie, Kirstie, and Mrs. Johansen to leave Copenhagen.
Last comment of my one,
ReplyDeleteI think that it is smart that Mr. Johansen does not go to Henrik's house because if the soldiers come to the house, and it is empty, the soldiers will know the truth and go after them. They will stay really supicious, but if Mr. Jonahnsen stays, they will know that the rest of the family just went out.
It will block the truth.
Responding to John's comment,
ReplyDeletewhen you said that the quote you wrote, that was on page 8-9, I kind-of disagree with your explanation. Well, I sort of do.
First, the quote explains that you don't want to be the crowd, you want to be part of the crowd. The crowd is to big, and maybe it is a bad crowd, so you will be recognized as bad. Now, if you are part of the crowd, you will have less chance of being remembered.
I still sort of agree with you.
I have to write my own comment since only John has put a post:
ReplyDeleteI am wondering if at the end of the book, both Ellen's parents are alive. I mean , where did they go? In the book it does not mention. I am just curious. How would you feel if your parents were forced to leave you, and you don't know where they are, don't know if they could still be alive, or if they are going to die? It is a tragic story... well, sort of.
I am not really enjoying the book. It's ok, but not that bad. I maybe not be at the best part yet. I will have to read more.
Responding to Camila
ReplyDeleteI totally disagree with you. I think this book is telling a really awsome story, where poeple are in danger. The story is told in a way which you don`t want to stop reading because the book has so much mistery. By creating mystery, the author manages to make ME never want to stop reading. Even if the story sucks, as I am a curious person I wouldn`t want to stop reading because I would need to know the end, the solutions, the answers to the problem. Well, thats just my opinion, and yes Camila, rea further and you won't manage to stop reading.
In the book Number the Stars, i found a strategy that Louis Lowry uses to make me never stop reading. She places her characters in danger. For example in the beggining of the book she places them in danger when she makes the soldiers talk to them. Later on, she makes Ellen pretend she is Lisa, and it goes on and on. That makes me never want to stop reading becuase I need to know what happens; if they willmanage to be safe. Because of that I don`t stop reading. What about you guys?
ReplyDeleteWhile reading the chapter that Ellen pretends to be Annemarrie's dead sister Lisa, i though they would not be caught but know, while we are leading to the middle of the book, I find that they will soon be caught, and that Annemarrie is probbably going to be taken to the consentration field in Ellen's place because Ellen and her family ran away. I think they will ta her because she lied with the purpose to save her, and know she will have to pay for making the wrong choices.
ReplyDeleteAs many people have told me, they said the book is going to be sad, so that leads me to think that someone is going to die, so I think that or Ellen or Annemarie are going to di. What about you guys?
Responding to John
ReplyDeleteYes they say that it si safer for Ellen there, but do you really think that. MAybe it is safer for her physically, but probbably not emotionally. I have a best friend and I think it would be impossible fot me to live without her. I would probbably be sad everyday, and never manage to sleep. If I where in Annemarie's place it would be even worse,because Ellen new her best friends wasn't in danger, but Annemarrie didn't know if Ellen was safe or not. I would probbably feel guilty everyday, and cry every night.
In Number the Stars Ellen and Annemarie grow up differently, I'm going to explain why I think their way of growing up is either good or bad. Annemarie grows up and stands in front of a big challenge, to safe her friend Ellen. It is worse for Ellen and her family. Ellen grows up in a Jewish family. Her family needs to hide from the German soldiers. I don't think it's a very good way to grow up and at the same time hiding from the soldiers. For Annemarie, I don't think it's a very good way to grow up. They are actually breaking the law by helping the Rosén's. Although it's really good that they help them, I don't think it's a very good way to raise children at the same time. The children may think it's correctly to break the law then. So, I think the way Annemarie and Ellen grow up is good, but not perfect.
ReplyDeleteResponding to Camila:
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with her. I think it's very weird that you don't get to know where Ellen's parents are. They will probably show up in the end of the novel, but still I want to know where they went. Did they leave Copenhagen? Or did they leave Denmark? I don't like when you don't get your questions answered till the end of the book. So, I agree with Camila that it's weird they don't say anything about Ellen's parents.
Responding to Barbara:
ReplyDeleteI agree with Barbara that Lois Lowry uses a special strategy to keep us reading. I relly think it's good that the author makes you continue reading. If there wouldn't be so many times you get really curious I would have stopped reading. And also I think it's sometimes good to have unanswered questions. If there wouldn't be, everything would be boring in the book. So, I agree with Barbara that Lois Lowry uses a very good strategy to keep us reading.
Number the Stars had some unanswered questions that you might want to know the answer to. This book, I think was very good, because all the questions I wanted to know got answered. Some of my questions were: How did Lise die?, Will the war end before the book finishes?, Will the rosens come back to Denmark? Those were three questions I wanted to know the answer to. For each of them I got an answer. For the first one, the answer is: She died by being hit by a car while she was running from a secret place, which the soldiers had discovered. The answer to the second question is: The war came to an end before the book was over, but before, Peter Nielsen got killed by the soldiers for helping so many Jewish people to hide. The answer to the second question is: The Rosen's didn't come back from Sweden, I thought they were going to come back though. So, I really liked this book, because the unanswered questions got answered in the end.
ReplyDeleteNumber the Stars gives you a bunch of important theme's. The most important theme given is that you should always be brave. In the book, Annemarie was always brave. If she wouldn't have been so brave, she wouldn't have saved her best friend, Ellen. Also, if she wouldn't have been brave enough, for example, when she met the soldiers in the middle of the night in the forest, they would have discovered that she was lying. All the time when she met the soldiers, it was important to be brave, and she was. I also think that Annemarie is a very good example about being brave. So, it is very important to be brave.
ReplyDeleteResponding to Barbara:
ReplyDeleteYou asked if we think that somebody would die, because someone said to you that there was going to be a sad ending. Although now i finished the book, and I know who died and who didn't, I was thinking that someone had died when the chapter was called: "There has been a death!" i though that it might have been someone from Ellen's family. I thought so, because it didn't say anything about the rest of Ellens family for a while. So, I thought that someone from Ellen's family had died, and not Ellen or Annemarie.
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ReplyDeleteResponding to Camila:
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you that it's very smart that Mr. Johansen satys in Copenhagen. Camila says that the soldiers might become suspicious. I also think so, and since the Rosens and they, live in the same apartment. It's is quite obvious that they are friends and might help them. But if Mr. Johansen is home, the soldiers might think, as Camila said, that the rest of the family is just not at home for the moment. So, I agree with Camila about what she says.
Barbara, John, Mrs.Kuhn:
ReplyDeleteI could not copy my comment on this blog, so I sent it to your e-mails.
You might be wondering why I had to copy paste, but the internet was not working, for this reason, I had to write it on word, and when the internet came, it would not paste.
I was mad...
But I still did my work.
Thanks