Social justice and action

Social justice

Lois Lowrys book, Number the Stars shows the prospective of a 10 year old girl and her friend, who is Jewish and trying to escape the nazis from Denmark and get to Sweden. The book try's to get you to see what it was like trying to escape the nazis in world war 2. Annemarie is the main character and her friend, Ellen, who is Jewish. Ellen's family gets taken away and Annemarie's mother who was friend with Ellen's family takes Annemarie and Ellen and try's to flea to Sweden. This journey was very hard, they went through obstacles like running into nazis and having to travels on boast, trains, cars, etc.. At the end they make it to Sweden and nothing bad happens but the book shows that for a lot of people it didn't end up this way.

Lois Lowry uses some craft moves in her book. Like having the nazis acting and speaking like they were about to commit each crime, this makes the reader anxious to what they will do next. She also has other craft moves like having pauses in scary moments with little details, this makes it so the reader knows the Annemarie is scared and in a bad situation. Lastly she has 2 kids as the main characters so she makes them speak and act in a kid way, now the reader truly gets what it was like to be a kid in world war 2.

This book is an example of social justice because it shows how some people in Europe, like Germans, and others discriminates Jews. This society is harmful to Jews, similar to African Americans in the 1960s. These Jews were killed, put through labor, and had to make sure people knew they were Jewish. This book also had social act, like how some people hid Jews and how America and it's allies went to fight the Germans and once agains have the Jews be free.