Number The Stars

Number the Stars: Chapter 2

The innocence of children is a blessing because as we get older many doubts of our life and reality are cleared and they can cause us fear, as the case of Annemarie, a ten years old girl who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, who wonders why the Nazis still stay in every corner of his country controlling everything that people do.

It's nice to see the beautiful relationship between Annemarie and her little sister Kristi who loves stories about kings and queens. So, as they go to sleep, Annemarie told Kirsti a story but she fallen asleep in a second. Despite that she stayed awake and compared the king of his country with those of fairy tales, he was gentle and kind to the people, no one of those who pass all day giving orders, that’s why everyone loved him. She remembers when she went walking with her sister and he greeted them. Unfortunately she died and that saddens Annemarie. Annemarie thought of a story her father had told her about a german soldier who asked where was the king’s guards and a young man answered the all of Denmark is his bodyguard. An admirable value to see how each Danish citizen was willing to give everything for their king as her parents. I consider that this nationalist attitude should also be implemented in our country because many of us had forgotten it.

She had asked why the king wasn't able to protect them from the Nazis and why Sweden was not occupied by them becuase she remembered seeing Sweden from the shore at her Uncle Henrik's house. Her father explained her that Denmark is a little country, and other countries that fought were crushed.

Eventhought the king had been injured in a fall of his hourse, he was still alive but her tall and beautiful sister Lise was dead. Annemarie considers how things have changed since Lise’ death, Peter her sister’s groom had not married anyone and her father seemed much older and tired.

The only thing that had stayed the same, she concluded, was fairy tales.

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