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Compare And Contrast Number The Stars And Miracle At Midnight
“Number the Stars”,and “Miracle at Midnight” Compare and Contrast.

The book “Number the Stars” and the movie “Miracle at midnight” have a lot in common,and they have a few differences. “Number the Stars” is about a middle class family with three girls,that lived in Denmark,but they were wealthy and they had a close friend who committed suicide. In “Miracle at Midnight” the family was trying the help the jews while in “Number the Stars”the family was Jewish. They were hiding from the Nazis.Now what they both have in common is, they both lived in Denmark during world war 2.They both were trying to survive from the Nazis.They both hid in beach houses.They had Resistance Fighters,and they almost got caught,but in the end both families survived.

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