Week 3, Group 5 Number the Stars AISD

"During chapter 14 and 15, two German soldiers stopped Annemarie from taking the package to Uncle Henrick. What might the importance of this package be in the context of the story and how does the author use this incident to build suspense?

If you were Annemarie, how would you be feeling at this stage and why? Use evidence from the text to support your ideas."

 The package is important because it numbs the dogs noses (this is mentioned in the afterword and chapter 17), so that they don't smell the Jewish people and so the Jewish people are able to escape to Sweden. The author builds suspense by going through the scene slowly, and making the soldiers seem more powerful than they are. If I were Annemarie I would be very frightend and probably too scared to speak because I could accidentally give away where my best friend was and then she would be relocated.