Annemarie's Loyalty
What does it mean to be loyal to a nation? Does it mean we care for our people, or does it mean we mistreat them? When Danes are loyal to their country. They are expected to be role models, and have responsibilities to attend to. How does this loyalty affect them, their country, and more importantly their people? When Annemarie (a child) experiences war. Does this make us rethink our thoughts on war and the world itself? Does war have an affect on our lives and human relationships. Does Annemarie show us how war really affects our human relationships, our thoughts, and more importantly our lives. Is this supposed to affect the novel? Was it supposed to affect its theme and its characters? When the Danes are respectful and
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They receive good treatment. We know that Germans dislike Jews and treat them badly, but this isn’t all Germans. This also causes Germans to not only lose loyalty in their nation, but also lose respect from their peers. To be loyal to the nation also means to be loyal to the people too. There also are Danes, Jews, and Germans who dislike each other and like each other. Those who dislike each other are making or did make a big mistake. We should all love each other, and be loyal to each other. When the wrong person retrieves power it leads to a destroyed, unhappy country, but when the right person takes the power back it then leads to a loving, peaceful, and loyal nation. In the book it shows that the Germans don’t get along with the Danes or jews, and that the Danes or Jews don’t get along with the Germans either. It also shows and proves that the Germans are destroying the country with every little thing they do. Annemarie went through some things. Some children didn’t have to go through what Annemarie went through. We all go through different things though. Annemarie shows and represents courage, bravery, and strong will. A reader might not have thought a kid like Annemarie could handle war so bravely. In the book it shows us that she had to be in adult conversations and she had to do some things that adults would have
They receive good treatment. We know that Germans dislike Jews and treat them badly, but this isn’t all Germans. This also causes Germans to not only lose loyalty in their nation, but also lose respect from their peers. To be loyal to the nation also means to be loyal to the people too. There also are Danes, Jews, and Germans who dislike each other and like each other. Those who dislike each other are making or did make a big mistake. We should all love each other, and be loyal to each other. When the wrong person retrieves power it leads to a destroyed, unhappy country, but when the right person takes the power back it then leads to a loving, peaceful, and loyal nation. In the book it shows that the Germans don’t get along with the Danes or jews, and that the Danes or Jews don’t get along with the Germans either. It also shows and proves that the Germans are destroying the country with every little thing they do. Annemarie went through some things. Some children didn’t have to go through what Annemarie went through. We all go through different things though. Annemarie shows and represents courage, bravery, and strong will. A reader might not have thought a kid like Annemarie could handle war so bravely. In the book it shows us that she had to be in adult conversations and she had to do some things that adults would have