Thursday, September 25, 2008

How does Lowry convey the attitudes of the girls and their mother toward the Germans in Number the Stars?

Annemarie and her sister, as well as their mother, do not like the presence of German soldiers in Denmark.  We first see this when Annemarie's mother finds out that a soldier stopped her daughter and Ellen on the road.  She asks "'Why doesn't he go back to his own country?'"


Later Annemarie tells her mother that there is a swastika on the Hirsch family shop.  Her mother turns away, upset.  Then she goes to speak to Mrs. Rosen.  The Hirsch family were Jews, and so are the Rosens.


Annemarie and her sister also do not like the presence of the soldiers.  When two soldiers stop her in the street with her sister, Annemarie sees "two sets of cold eyes glaring at her."  When one soldier tries to touch Kirsti's fair hair, she pulls away and tells him not to.  


We also know that the family does not like the Nazis because the deceased oldest daughter, Lise, was part of the Resistance.  It is clear that everyone in the family sees the German occupation of Denmark as a negative thing.

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