10.15.10 Week 8

It is important for readers to understand what is happening in their books, who the characters are and what the theme is. In your response, outline the following: Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. Provide evidence to support your thinking from your book.

It is important as a reader to understand the many important features that a story can have, Such as Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. My book, Number The Stars by Lois Lowry is about a young girl named Annemarie living in times when the Jews are being relocated or killed. Being a strong proud Jew Annemarie goes through hard times to help her friend. In my book Number The Stars, by Lois Lowry a young ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen passes through a variety of events, like running into Nazi soldier's, being in school, and having food shortages. I think the main plot of this book is that Annemarie's life and those who she shares it with live a poor life by the Nazi's. The setting's in Number The Stars is taken place in the Denmark, 1940. I know this because on it says in the summary, and also because Denmark was one of the city's under the control of the Europeans during the Holocaust. The characters in my book are Annemarie, her mom, her dad, her sister Kristi, her friend Ellen, and Ellen's family.Annemarie is very gentle, caring, smart, and spontaneous. She shows she's very caring in the first page of chapter two. Annemarie's sister Kirsti wanted her to read her bed time story, she read when kirsty fell asleep, she kept telling the story even though Kristi was asleep because she felt like she had to finish the story for her little sister. This shows me how caring she is to her little sister, even though she gets on her nerve's. I think the universal theme is how society reacts. Annemarie and her family reacted badly when the Nazi's wanted to find Ellen's family. They opposed they're own race by helping the Jews excape from Denmark, to free land.

Number the stars, I think will be even more interesting as i go reading along. It has helped me understand a little about the life of people during the hard times of the Holocaust.