![]() As Annemarie is forced into situations that demand greater and greater bravery, she finds that people around her attempt to help her be brave by either supplying her with information or intentionally withholding it. The dramatic tension of the novel begins developing as Annemarie learns more about the world around her-and about her parents’ plans to help get the Rosens out of Denmark. She ultimately argues that true bravery is not based on whether one knows what he or she is risking in being brave: true bravery is motivated by selflessness.Īt the start of the novel, Annemarie Johansen is naïve about much of the violence happening right in her own hometown. Throughout the novel, Lowry creates tension between the idea that bravery comes from knowing the risk at hand and doing the hard thing anyway, and the opposing idea that one is able to act more bravely when ignorant of what’s at stake. ![]() ![]() Despite being a children’s novel, Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars makes a complicated argument about what it means to be brave. ![]()
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