Number The Stars Annemarie Quotes

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Sometimes adults lie to children. They may lie to them because of their safety, because they’re too young, or maybe it’s because they’re afraid. In Number The Stars the lies and truth told will affect Annemarie’s growth from girlhood to womanhood, how brave she is, and her relationship with the adults in her life. When the story began, Annemarie Johansen was just a little girl. At the end of the story even though her age didn’t change, her character did. The lies and truth told in the story play a big role in this. The lies and truth told will affect Annemarie’s growth from girlhood to womanhood throughout the story. It affects her by making her feel as if she were not a child anymore. “Annemarie knew that Mama was lying again, and she could see that Mama understood that she knew. They looked at each other for along time and said nothing. In that moment, with that look, they became equals.”(chapter 9, page 79)…show more content…
The lies and truth told also play a big role in affecting how brave she is. When Annemarie takes the handkerchief to Uncle Henrik, this shows how brave she is. The handkerchief was a tool to make the search dogs unable to sniff out the passengers on the boat. If the soldiers who stopped her knew about the handkerchief, there is no telling what they would have done to her. This was a true act of bravery. In the Afterword on page 135 and 136 it says “After the Nazis began using police dogs to sniff out hidden passengers on fishing boats, Swedish scientists worked swiftly to prevent such detection. They created a powerful powder composed of dried rabbits blood and cocaine; the blood attracted the dogs, and when they sniffed at it, the cocaine numbed their noses and destroyed, temporarily, their sense of
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    In the book Number the Stars the main character is Annemarie Johnson. She experiences the lies and truth, and the relationship with the in her life. She also is on a unique journey from girlhood to womanhood. The lies effected Annemarie were used for good things. She was lied to about her great-aunt Bertie that she never had. Her great-aunt Bertie was never actually alive. They brought a casket to the Uncle Henrik house and it had clothes in it. Some german soldier came to Uncle Henrik's house and

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