Hardship, according to Ggoogle, means a severe or suffering situation. If you look at the book Number The Stars, a historical drama by Lois Lowry’s, this hardship is the Holocaust. This book is based on a ten-year-old girl named Annemarie who lives in Copenhagen. Annemarie and her family members have to help their friends, Ellen and her parents. They must help them escape the Nazis who want to take the Rosens because they are Jewish. Lois Lowry portrayed that Annemarie wascould be seen as loyal, loving, and brave, which she useds to stay together with friends and family which can bring courage, and with courage one can dominate fear, and with subdued fear one can overcome hardship. Through Annemarie's loyalty loyalness she was able to …show more content…
This is obvious with Annemarie and Ellen because they are best friends and go through everything together. Even in the first paragraph of the book it mentions how they are best friends: "‘I'll race you to the corner, Ellen!” ‘Annemarie adjusted the thick leather pack on her back so that her schoolbooks balanced evenly. ‘Ready?’ She looked at her best friend.” also in the beginning on page 32 Annemarie was sympathetic to her friend Ellen because her parents would leave her for a little while: “Annemarie was stunned. She looked at Ellen and saw that her best friend was crying silently. "‘Where are Ellen's parents? We must help them, too!’" This shows that Annemarie was loving to Ellen when she was feeling upset and she tried to make her feel better by asking if her parents were okay, showing the theme by “sticking together” to make it through. Another example of love in Annemarie is when Annemarie loved Papa so she thought about how he must feel being alone at home on page 83 paragraph 3: “She thought of Papa, back in Copenhagen alone. He would be awake, too. He would be wishing he could have come, but knowing, too, that he must come and go as always to the corner store for the newspaper, to his office when morning came.” This means that Papa loves his family so he is staying behind and doing what he normally would so the Nazis wouldn’t figure out that the Rosen's have fled. As you can see, there are many reasons of how Annemarie is loving in this
Adversity. A time of misfortune or distress. It’s like facing a problem that is super difficult to overcome. Many people think that they have gone through the worst—that they they have faced the most problems. But have they met Henrietta Lacks, Douglas Mawson, and Phineas Gage? Henrietta Lacks, Douglas Mawson, and Phineas Gage are all amazing people who have gone through the worst for the consideration of science. Doctors took healthy cells from Henrietta Lacks without her consent, and they then used them for research to make millions of dollars. Going on a hard, difficult journey was the story of Douglas Mawson; he also lost his only friends and almost died a few times. Phineas Gage’s story is also filled with adversity, in which he had an iron rod shoot through his head while staying conscious. Out of all of these people, however, Phineas Gage endured the most adversity for many reasons.
Survivor. This can be defined as “a person who survives, especially a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died”, or as “a person who copes well with difficulties in their life.” Being a survivor is having the ability to experience a difficult or traumatic situation and still being able to progress and contribute to the environment. Each person has a different mental and physical capacity of how much they can suffer through. A survivor can be both selfless and selfish. There is typically a happy medium between all survivors in which they balance worrying about themselves and worrying about others. A person who coped with difficulties was Mrs. Schindler, she dealt with the process of cancer and the aftermath. In the article “ Beyond Secret Tears “ by Lili Silberman, Lili would deal with the mental difficulties of a child and be separated from her mother and father. In the book Hiroshima by John Hersey, it talks about how the survivors of a nuclear bomb had to work together to stay alive and be physically well after being
Mrs.Johansen is Annemarie’s mother, she is a very strong, determined, and smart woman “Friends will take care of them. thats what friends do. ”she helps the roses by hiding ellen and pretending that she is their daughter. Mr. Johansen is Annemarie’s father, he is the same as her mother but more courageous and brave. ” we don’t know where the germans are taking the jews and we dont know what that means we only know that its is wrong, and it dangerous and we must help”.
Anne’s relationship with her mum was quite different to the novel. In the novel she would write unpleasant things about her mother, she really disliked her mother which was something rare, most children love their mothers, however, Anne always talked about being unique, and not wanting to be like any other individual. Anne states that her mother wasn’t a good example, ‘’I only look at her as a mother, and she just doesn't succeed in being that to me; I have to be my own mother.’’ (7 November 1942). A similarity between the film and the novel would be the way Anne would talk not her mother, however the film doesn’t go into enough depth of the relationship. Anne in the novel talks about her mother quite often, she feels like her mother isn’t being a good role model. In the film you don’t really see their relationship struggles, it is as if their relationship was on the verge of being invisible. Both mother and daughter hardy communicated in the film, in the novel Anne talks about how they would disagree with each other, you don’t see this in the film. This links back to the topic and how her perspectives of her mother in this case weren’t shown in the
Growing up in rural mississippi, Anne’s family was very poor and surrounded by extreme racism. A few traumatic events near the beginning of the story seem to set a tone for the rest of the tale. In the first chapter, Anne’s house is burned to the ground. This is done by her cousin George, but Anne ends up with the blame. Anne is then punished for something that was not her fault. This is almost a recurring theme in the book, as Anne is continuously being punished or tormented throughout her life for having a darker skin color. Soon after this, Anne’s family is devastated when their father abandons them to run away with another woman. Anne’s mother, pregnant at the time, remains strong and finds a job in the city to support her children. Anne’s mother demonstrates determination and independence, and acts as a role model for Anne so that she too will not give up in the face of conflict and struggle.
I told you why Anne had felt this way during her ordeal, and what this reveals about her character and her views about life. Anne is a strong and heroic young girl who has a heart for others and she is very compassionate towards others. Which is a great quality to have in that time period she was going through? No one could have done it better than Anne. She helped people look at the good in the situations she was never the one mention the negative things. You think how you would react to this situation. Would you be buoyant? Or would you be colorless in this and always look at the crummy never say anything positive. All quotes can be found in the collections book pages
Number the Stars takes place in 1943. It is told from the point of view of Annemarie Johansen, a ten-year-old girl who lives is Copenhagen, Denmark. One day, while leaving school, Annemarie and her best friend Ellen, who is Jewish, are stopped by two Nazi soldiers on the corner of their street. Both of the girls’ mothers become concerned and ask them to take a new route to school each day to avoid any other conflict from the soldiers. Annemarie is frightened by this encounter and it makes her reflect on what her father has told her about Denmark and about the death of her sister (Lise) that occurred a few years before the book starts.
An example of adversity is the Holocaust - Hitler‘s plan to exterminate the Jews. In the memoir, Night, we discover how Elie Wiesel changes in response to his concentration camp experiences. The separation from his loved ones and the horrible conditions of these camps affect Elie immensely. Elie is affected in the following ways: physically, emotionally and spiritually. The Holocaust had changed him into a completely different person.
Number the Stars is a story about a ten-year-old girl by the name of Annemarie Johansen who is faced with the horrific choice of jeopardizing the safety of her family to save the life of her best friend, Ellen Rosen, who is Jewish. The story takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark during World War II. The Germans invaded Denmark and there are Nazis on every street corner. The presence of the Nazis has made life for the Danish people very difficult, particularly the Jews. They are terrified of being harassed, losing their jobs, businesses, and being sent to internment camps. Ellen family is targeted by the Nazis and they seek help from the Johansens. Mrs. Johansen takes Ellen, Annemarie, and Krisi to visit her brother Henrik who lives in Gilleleje,
The Jews are a first example of characters who are impacted from physical suffering. This is shown when the Jews were on the street and people noticed they were very unhealthy and physically unstable. The fact that they’re physically suffering was made certain when the author wrote, “The noise of their feet throbbed on top of the road, their eyes were enormous in their starving skulls … Their legs staggered to
A person’s character is developed by the surroundings around them as well as their experiences. The Roman poet Horace quotes “…Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents in which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant…” I agree with the Roman poet, Horace, in that adversity has a way of waking talent from slumber. Adversity can encourage people in ways success and wealth cannot, as there is a benefit in the hardship. In Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, as well as Macbeth, by Shakespeare, adversity has developed the characters. From my observation, I strongly agree that experiences, such as hardship and danger, shape a person.
Everyday, their lives are filled with darkness and degeneracy. The whole world’s scared and they decide to swallow the fear. Growing up in a wartime environment isn’t easy at all. All of their lives have been mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood. Yet, Anne Frank still believes that people are good at heart.
Lois Lowry titled the book Number the Stars, because it shows how God’s love is all-knowing, merciful, and hopeful. The author knew that Jewish people were God’s chosen people. In the book, Annemarie could not comprehend how God could know how many stars are in the sky. Lois Lowry explains how the stars represent the Jewish people.
Suffering can be defined as, "The state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship." This notion of suffering is evident in John Boyne's novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. In his novel, Boyne emphasizes the hardships that the Jews faced through segregation and loss of material wealth. Boyne does this through two main characters named Bruno and Shmuel. Bruno is the son of a wealthy German solider during the Holocaust, and Shmuel is a prisoner in a concentration camp.
Experiences of an orphaned child are never pleasant and Anne has it no different. Being only three months old when both parents die due to a fever is devastating on a child on its own, but being reminded constantly is what makes bearing that pain even harder. Before Anne’s arrival at the Green Gables her attitude towards the problems life threw at her was always pessimistic, causing her self-esteem to be at the lowest level possible. “You see, nobody wanted me even then. It seems to be my fate.” (Montgomery 52) this quote shows exactly how Anne perceived her life as; that she is meant not to be loved. This also leads on during the first few months of Anne’s arrival at the Green Gables, and is seen at its peak at two major occasions. F...