Week 3 - Group 5 - Number the Stars - Aisdhaka

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. 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 importance the package is the handkerchief inside because the drugs on the handkerchief numbed the dogs noses so they could not sniff out the Jewish hiders. Lois Lowry built suspense using the soldiers to slow down Annemarie and make you think that she might not be able to deliver the package. First if I were her I would feel sacred that the Germans might take the handkerchief and because Uncle Henrick might have all ready left for Sweden. After I delivered the package i would feel relived because the most dangerous part of my mini mission was over.   

Week 3-#5-Number the Stars-AISD

We read that the package held a handkerchief. The Nazis started using trained dogs to sniff-out the people, Jewish hiders, on the boats. The handkerchief had dry rabbit's blood to attract the dogs and cocaine to temporarily ruin their sense of smell. This is building suspense because no one knew what was in the package yet. I would feel paranoid because a German Nazi might be aware of a lot of things that I do because they make themselves own almost all of shops and stores.

Week 2 Group 5 Number The Stars ASB

"During chapter 8, "There Has Been a Death", the Johansens pretended that there was a death. Two men helped carry the coffin, full of blankets, into the house. Do they know what's in the coffin? Are they part of the Resistance? How do you know if they are (or not) part of the Resistance?"

 

I think that they are part of the Resistance, because they are delivering the coffin and I think they would have looked inside as it is human nature that people are curious. And since they did not tell any one anything if they looked inside, I think they are part of the Resistance.