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Lisa’s War Novel Review

By: Aditya Kaundinya

My review for this book is that it was decent but I won’t say that it was bad. These are my reasons for that. Firstly I’ve read a few war books and they all basically end in the same way. Such as the main character (Lisa) escapes Denmark with her brother while her “boyfriend” (Jesper) continues fighting for his country. To me this book was very cliche and that shows a lot because in chapter 5 Lisa has to deliver the real news on the streetcars and she vomits on 2 german soldiers. This is seen a lot in war books or fantasies where the main character gets in trouble, such as vomiting, blurting out things and getting trapped and they always get saved by either someone who cares for them or the public who are there. Overall this book is decent but I would change a few things in the book like more plot twists but otherwise this book was excellent.

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1. I think that Lisa went to Stefan because she thought that Stefan would take the cyanide pill and kill himself so that the others could stay on the boat.

2. I think that the rowboat started to sink because it was super tiny and also because this type of a boat can’t keep 6 people afloat.

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Question

1. Why does Lisa come to Stefan when she remembers the cyanide pill?

2. Why do you think the rowboat started to sink?

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Chapter #16-17 Stefan and Jesper and I - Goodbye

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Chapter #16-17 Stefan and Jesper and I - Goodbye

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Main Ideas

The main ideas for both of these chapters combined are that most of the trawlers have left with people and there is one more left, the group goes to the house in the night and sleeps and wakes up the next morning and talk about stories of the time when they were doing missions in the city. Stefan then shows them the cyanide pill that he carries in case anything happens. They also discuss whether Stefan will board the trawler with Lisa. The next batch of people come and the group of three helps them board. After the trawler leaves a small rowboat comes back and Lisa gets on the rowboat with a few other people who are left and to Lisa’s surprise Stefan also boards the rowboat. When the party gets further in the sea the rowboat starts to sink under all the pressure and water starts filling in. In no time the whole rowboat is filled with water and the party of people have to swim. A ship in the vicinity see’s them and throws down lifesavers but Lisa realizes that Stefan still has the cyanide pill so when she comes near him he tells her that the pill dissolved before he could even take it. The group is pulled to the deck of the massive boat and the captain says to them “Welcome to Sweden”.

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1. The family is escaping to Sweden because sweden was free from Nazi oppression and the reason Sweden was safe is because they were a neutral country in the war.

2. I think that the family will be safe in Sweden because, Sweden is a neutral country so the allies would protect it if the Nazi’s attacked.

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Questions

1. Why is the family escaping to Sweden? How is Sweden safe?

2. Will the family be safe in Sweden?

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Main Ideas

The main ideas combined for chapter 14 and 15 are that Lisa and her family flee the hospital in ambulances and are left at sea shore where they hide until another ambulance comes and tells them about a house near the escape place. Erik gets separated from Lisa’s family because he entered a different van so his escape route was different. A man who was with Lisa’s ambulance group kill’s his wife and 2 children because they decided that killing themselves was better than being captured by the Nazi’s and sent to the concentration camps. Everybody at the sea shore is directed to a house where they will rest in for the night until the trawler comes to pick them up. At that time Stefans tell’s Lisa that he is staying back to help the people who will come to this same rendezvous point to escape to sweden. Lisa agrees to help Stefan but she has to leave on the last trawler so that she can be safe with her mother, father and her baby sister Sarah in Sweden.

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1. Seeing the brute force that the Nazi’s excersied during their campaign for world domination I feel like they would kill baby Sarah not because they have to but because she belong to a jewish family and because they would do it just to be cruel.

2. I think that because of the stubbornness of Erik’s father both of his parents were killed or captured when the Nazi’s checked the houses of each jewish member.

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1. Would the German really kill baby Sarah?

2. What could have happened to Erik’s parents

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Main Ideas

The main ideas for chapter 13 are that Lisa and her family are brought to the hospital her father works in so that they can escape Denmark to go to Sweden, because the people in the hospital have arranged a way for the jewish people to escape Denmark.

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1. Lisa was scared that the Nazi soldiers would tae they’re wrath on her because the Nazi’s were notorious for taking revenge on the Danish people for the smallest of problems.

2. Erik was being stubborn about leaving his grandparents house because he thinks that the Nazi’s will let the Jewish people live in peace, even though we know that they were being deported to concentration camps.

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1. Why was Lisa scared that the Nazi soldiers would take they’re wrath on her?

2. Why was Erik being so stubborn about leaving his grandparents house?

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Main Ideas

The main ideas for chapter 12 are, Lisa reached Erik’s grandparents house and she has come to collect Erik so that the Nazi’s don’t capture and send Erik and his grandparents. Lisa then takes Erik to the train station where they catch the train back to Copenhagen but then 2 Nazi soldiers are talking about how they’re comrade was killed by the Danish people and how they were going to get revenge, Lisa feels threatened that they will take they’re wrath on her so they slip past and move to a different compartment.

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1. We don’t know who tipped off the Rabbi as it is not written in this chapter but if we go to the Afterword we can read there that G. F. Duckwitz tipped off to the Rabbi that the Nazi’s will start rounding up the jews.

2. Lisa faked being ill because she thought that the man who was sitting in the same compartment could be a part of the Schalburg Corps, who are the Danish people who have adopted the Hitler ideology of Naziism.

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1. Who tipped off the Rabbi?

2. Why did Lisa fake being ill? (What caused her to do that)

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Main Ideas

The main ideas for chapter 11 are that it is the first night of the jewish new year (Rosh hashanah) and the Rabbi is taking a “vacation” and hopes that the other jewish people take a vacation as it is not safe for jewish people to go to the synagogue, since somebody has tipped of to the Rabbi that the german soldiers will start gathering up people at the Synagogue and going into jewish households, to take them to the concentration camps. Lisa then makes it to Erik’s house and tell’s his mother that the nazi’s will start gathereing up the jewish people and that they need to flee, and Erik’s mother ask’s Lisa to go to his Grandparents house to warn him to leave. On the train Lisa meets a family who are Jewish and fakes being ill so that she can talk to the young lady of the family, in private so that she can tell her that Eichman and his goons will start rounding up all the jewish people.

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1. We don’t know for sure but after some research online I have found out that the Schalburg Corps were inspired by the Hitler ideology so they decided to crete their own Nazi type army.

2. Again we don’t know what will happen to Sussanne but most likely she will start another rebellion in the place where her aunt lives.

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1. Why did the Schalburg Corps become the Schalburg Corps?

2. What will happen to Sussanne next?

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Main Ideas

The main ideas for chapter 10 are that there are Danish traitors such as the Schalburg Corps who have betrayed Denmark work for the Nazi’s and they help the Nazi’s take total control of Denmark. Also Lisa’s father is sending Susanne to her aunts so that she can take care of Susanne and also because the Nazi’s and Eichman have gathered the list of Jewish families in Copenhagen from the Jewish community center.

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1. We don’t know for sure but we can infer from the book that the Germans were firing on the mass population of Danes who maybe “looked at them funnily or angrily”.

2. The owners of the guns are Lisa’s family but I think that majority of the guns belong to Stefan and he brought them in case the family needed them.

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1. Why did the Germans start attacking all of a sudden?

2. Who owns all the guns on the floorboard?

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Main ideas for this chapter

The main ideas for this chapter are that Susanne kills a man and when she and Lisa try to store the gun in a loose floorboard in her room, she discovers that there is already something in the floorboard and that is even more guns. Erik then comes into the house and says that the Germans are taking over and then Susanne says that “ Erik you're a few years too late”.

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1. I think that Susanne followed Stefan because she knew that he helped the resistance and she wanted to help and make a difference, also I can infer from the book that she wanted to help because she wanted to avenge her parents' untimely death.

2. I don't know for sure why they left the workers in the factory but I think that they left the workers in the factory because they wanted to show the Nazi’s that if they are brutal, the Danes can also show their might.

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1. Why did Susanne follow Stefan?

2. Why did the resistance leave the workers and soldiers inside the factory?

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Main Ideas

The main ideas for this chapter are that Sussanne and Lisa follow Stefan and help the resistance blow up a factory that helps the German invasion. Also Susanne starts talking again.

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For the next few chapters I think that we will learn more about what happened to the dance hall and if Susannes parents are alive or even if she is alive. I think we will also see that Lisa gets another assignment but this time more deadly.

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1. We don’t  know for sure but in the book they mention the building because of the choice of music displayed in the dance hall.

2. Again we can’t be sure why but we can infer that they decided to adopt Sarah because both her parents were killed in the hospital and that only left her grandparents who were in a completely different city, so they must have felt bad and adopted.

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1. Why did the Nazi’s blow up the dance hall?

2. Why did Lisa’s parents adopt Sarah?

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Main Ideas

The main ideas for chapter 7 are that Lisa and Stephan’s parents have adopted the baby of the lady who was shot in the hospital and that Sussannes buildings gets bombed by the Nazi because of the music that her parents were playing in the dance hall.

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World War 2 Investigative Assignment {Part #2}

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World War 2 Investigative Assignment {Part #2}

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World War 2 Investigative Assignment {Part #1}

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World War 2 Investigative Assignment {Part #1}

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I think that Stefan wanted to punch Erik because Stefan thought that Erik was making up a ruse to hide the fact that he didn’t care at all about the massacre in the hospital.

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We don’t know for sure but I think that the Nazi’s shot the nurses because the wanted to make a point that if you help the nemies of Berlin then you are the enemies of Berlin. Or I think that they shot the nurses because the nurses were helping the pregnant woman who had helped jews.

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1. Why did the Nazi’s shoot the nurses?

2. Why did Stefan want to punch Erik?

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Dear Abby,

I know of the hardships and the mental torment and torture you're going through. I don’t know how it feels and I must confess I don’t want to know how it feels but I know that you need help. I know that you need to cure the injured and help the helpless but these Germans are not worth saving so I have a suggestion that might benefit you. I know that you are treating Nazi’s and I don’t know how it feels and I don’t want to know but if I may i would like to suggest an alternative. Firstly before you read my suggestion I want you to know that I know of the ethical issue of what i’m suggesting and I know of the danger that you might be in if you were caught, but know this that if you don’t do what I suggest it could most certainly be the end of the world as you know it. I feel horrible that you are going through this and, since you have taken a hippocratic oath about doing no harm so my suggestion is that instead of treating the Nazi’s with real medicine’s wy don’t you use syringes of water and placebo medicines. I hope I have done the right thing . I don’t want to let you down and I don’t want you to keep going through this turmoil.

Sincerely,

A Concerned Daughter

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What is this author suggesting about war in this poem?

The author is suggesting in this poem that war is a pointless, useless and time wasting thing.
When the author says “had he and I met in some old we should have set us down to wet. Right
many a nipperkin” This translated to modern day English basically means that if he had met the
enemy soldier before the war in a bar they would have sat down together for a drink and have a
chat. This means that if they were not enemies and were in the same inn they would be friends
who casually drink together. Another reference to what the author is suggesting is that “ I shot
him dead because—Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That is clear
enough; although” this means that just because this person was his enemy he shot him down
dead no other reason, just because he was the opposing party. When the author writes “he
thought he’ll just off-handed”, it means that the opponent soldier may have listed for the army
just like this person for a paycheck and nothing else, no need for a cause just need of money.

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Main ideas

The main ideas for chapter 6 are that it’s Lisa’s 14th birthday and 2 years have passed since the nazi invasion in Denmark. The Nazi’s come into her father’s hospital and shoot a woman who is pregnant and her husband because they were supposedly harbouring fugitives, the fugitives being jewish people. They also shoot down 4 nurses who are helping in the procedure, also Stefan almost punches Erik in the face.

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My predictions for the next few chapters are that Lisa will continue to leave pamphlets around streetcars but on the 5th or 6th time she tries to leave pamphlets the Germans will actually capture her and leave her in a concentration camp.

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Why did the resistance choose the laundry to hide the news pamphlets?

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Why did the resistance choose the laundry to hide the news pamphlets?

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I think that the resistance chose the laundry to hide the news pamphlets because laundries don’t draw much attention and if anybody is going outside to leave pamphlets they won’t suspect many things.

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Why is the codename for the laundry/pamphlets soren sorensen?

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Why is the codename for the laundry/pamphlets soren sorensen?

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We don’t know for sure why the codename is Soren Sorensen but I think that the codename is Soren Sorensen because there was a group called the S.S in the Nazi forces which stands for Secret Service, and I think that they chose this name because Soren Sorenson is also S.S and it could be a way of messing with German forces if they are using the laundry or because it tells the laundry people that the delivery is to stop the Nazi’s.

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Main Ideas

The main idea for chapter 5 is that Lisa got her first mission from the resistance. She has to deliver the real news. When she went to complete the mission she was so frightened that she ended up throwing up on 2 German soldiers. Then the people on the streetcar came up and started to defend her because they wanted to hear the news that Lisa had it very badly.

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The predictions for the next few chapters are that Lisa will be able to send and drop the pamphlets on each train car but soon we will get caught by the soldiers and she might make a quick escape but she will be on a wanted list.

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Why were those people chained to the wall of the school?

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Why were those people chained to the wall of the school?

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We are not told why these people were chained to the wall but we can infer that they could have been Jews or soldiers of the allied forces who were trying to save Denmark or just going through daily life. We can also infer that they were condemned to rigorous physical torment such as carrying weights working menial tasks that are excruciating and subjected to torture. We can infer that because one of the person who was chained had no teeth and the Nazi’s could have pulled out they’re teeth. The might have also been condemned to go to the concentration camps after their physical torture.

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Why did Lisa give her sandwich and apple to the man who was chained to the wall?

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Why did Lisa give her sandwich and apple to the man who was chained to the wall?

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Lisa gave her lunch to the person chained to the wall of the school because she felt fat in front of the starving people. Many atrocities like this happened to the Jews and the allied forces when they tried freeing countries from the tyranny of Berlin.

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Main ideas:

The main ideas of chapter 4 were that Lisa was able to convince Stefan to let her help and her school was turned into a prison. She then goes to the other school and picks a spot in the class. She finishes her homework and eats dinner where Stefan tells her that her first mission is to get the new pamphlets from.

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At the end of the chapter, Lisa is waiting anxiously for Stefan. Why?

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At the end of the chapter, Lisa is waiting anxiously for Stefan. Why?

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Lisa is waiting anxiously for Stephan because she wants to ask him if she can join the resistance and help free Denmark from the clutches of Berlin.

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How does the Resistance “tell” the Danes the real news of the war?

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How does the Resistance “tell” the Danes the real news of the war?

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The resistance tells the Danes the real news by spreading Pamphlets in public transportation and by speaking on the radio of Denmark free radio.

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Name three things the Resistance has done to fight back against the Nazis. 

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Name three things the Resistance has done to fight back against the Nazis. 

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The resistance has blown up key factories that help the Nazi’s, they have started speaking against the Germans in Denmark free radio and lastly the have been spreading pamphlets of the real news in streetcars.

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What “game” do Stefan and Lisa play with the Nazi soldiers?

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What “game” do Stefan and Lisa play with the Nazi soldiers?

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Stefan and Lisa play chicken with the Nazi soldiers. Which involves walking in front of them to see who moves first.

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Why does Lisa decide to follow Stefan and Jesper? What does she discover? 

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Why does Lisa decide to follow Stefan and Jesper? What does she discover? 

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Lisa decides to follow Stefan and Jesper because she knows that they are in the rebellion to free Denmark. She discovers that Stefan and Jesper are helping the rebels.

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At the very end of chapter two, Lisa has an important realization about how much the war has changed things. What does she realize? Explain your answer.

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At the very end of chapter two, Lisa has an important realization about how much the war has changed things. What does she realize? Explain your answer.

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Lisa has realized that with the mere thought of an action or an idea could endanger or save 10s to hundreds of thousands of people could die or be saved.

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In chapter two, what dilemma does Lisa’s father face?

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In chapter two, what dilemma does Lisa’s father face?

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Lisa’s father is put in the dilemma of treating Nazi even though he is a jew and that is the dilemma because the Nazi’s are hunting and condemning the Jews world wide.

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In chapter one, the members of Lisa’s family have different reactions to the invasion of the Nazis. Describe their reactions.

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In chapter one, the members of Lisa’s family have different reactions to the invasion of the Nazis. Describe their reactions.

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Stefan:

Stefans reaction is that he was utterly furios that Denmark didn’t fight and surrendered.

Mother and Father:

The Mother was scared for the safety of her children and the father was scared for the Jewish people in Denmark.

Erik:

Erik seemed to not mind that the Germans were here though he progressed to finding it difficult to study with the Germans in Denmark.

Lisa:

Lisa is scared of the Germans and she wants them to go away, she is also angry that her country Denmark just surrendered, she feels like she owes something to Denmark and wants to join the resistance, and lastly she feels scared that the Germans will take away her family.

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I think that for the next few chapter Stefan will give Lisa tasks to do after joining the resistance and they will grow closer but then Lisa will get caught for rebelling against the Nazi’s and I think Stefan will take the blame instead of letting Lisa getting the blame.

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1. I think that the news gets around without the Nazi’s finding anything is because the normal citizens might be helping the resistance at home or in their places of work secretly without anyone knowing and they might be finding new, innovative and secretive ways of giving out, pamphlets, guns and other equipment that could help the resistance.

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1. I think that the reason that Lisa wants to join the resistance at such a young age is because, even though she is young and inexperienced in the world, she wants to do her part in freeing her country. I also think that she wants to show the world and the Nazi’s that even though she’s a Jew she will still do her part in saving her country and that the Jews arent any different than the normal citzen.

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1. How does the resistance get the news around without getting caught bu Nazi’s?

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1. Why does Lisa want to join the resistance group even though she’s only twelve?

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The main ideas for chapter 3 are that Lisa is spying on Stefan and his friend Jesper. Through spying on them she learns that Stefan and his friend are joining the resistance against Nazi’s and she decided that she will follow Stefan and figure out a way to ask him, to help.

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I think that for the next few chapter Stefan will give Lisa tasks to do after joining the resistance and they will grow closer but then Lisa will get caught for rebelling against the Nazi’s and I think Stefan will take the blame instead of letting Lisa getting the blame.

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1. I think that the news gets around without the Nazi’s finding anything is because the normal citizens might be helping the resistance at home or in their places of work secretly without anyone knowing and they might be finding new, innovative and secretive ways of giving out, pamphlets, guns and other equipment that could help the resistance.

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1. I think that the reason that Lisa wants to join the resistance at such a young age is because, even though she is young and inexperienced in the world, she wants to do her part in freeing her country. I also think that she wants to show the world and the Nazi’s that even though she’s a Jew she will still do her part in saving her country and that the Jews arent any different than the normal citzen.

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How does the resistance get the news around without getting caught bu Nazi’s?

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1. Why does Lisa want to join the resistance group even though she’s only fifteen?

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The main ideas for chapter 3 are that Lisa is spying on Stefan and his friend Jesper. Through spying on them she learns that Stefan and his friend are joining the resistance against Nazi’s and she decided that she will follow Stefan and figure out a way to ask him, to help.

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I think that in the next few chapters Lisa might find a way to join the resistance and help Denmark just as her father is. Even if it’s not fighting she might find a way to help without going in the frontline.

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What Stefan means is that before Moses was born the jews were enslaved to the Egyptians and then Moses freed them so when Stefan refers to being enslaved in Egypt it means that they are just enslaved like in egypt.

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For this question I have 3 predictions. The first one is that when Lisa’s father gets captured the Germans will raid they’re house and take Lisa, Stephan and their mother to the concentration camps. At the concentration camp they will be separated into different groups and from that they will be sent to different camps, but while on route I think that Lisa will be able to escape and join the resistance in Denmark, and eventually save her family from the concentration camps. My 2nd prediction is that Lisa will be able to escape from the clutches of the Germans and when she tries her heroic rescue she wont be able to save her father or mother because they were killed or they decided to stay behind to let the children escape, and my last theory is that while Lisa is fighting with the resistance she dies after killing a key general of the Nazi’s.

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What does Stefan mean that it was hard for them when they were enslaved in Egypt and it’s happening all over again?

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What will happen if Lisa's father gets captured by the Germans?

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The main ideas of this chapter are that, after the Germans invaded Denmark, life has gone as normal except that there are people who seem to be rebelling against the invader. Also that there still is a constant fear of the Germans capturing the jews and sending them to concentration camps.

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For my real world connections i'd like to mention the Russia Ukraine war as that is the war that is going on right now and Russia is invading Ukraine which is a sovereign nation just like Germany did with Denmark and many other countries.

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At this time of the novel my predictions for the upcoming chapters are that the main characters family will be put in a situation where the family is seperated and the main character will have to hatch a plan in secret to make sure that her family is reunited.

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Nazi Germany didn't start the concentration camps immediately after they invaded Denmark because the government still had most control over Denmark.

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Denmark Surrendered to Nazi Germany easily because, The Kingdom of Denmark had limited air support and the Nazi's had almost 100/1 air support against the Danes.

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Why didn't Nazi Germany immediately start the concentration camps in Denmark?

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Why didn't Nazi Germany immediately start the concentration camps in Denmark?

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(This is vocabulary for the whole novel study)
Danish-English

østerbrogade- A shopping district in Denmark

Frederikshavn - A Danish town Frederikshavn municipality Region Nordjylland, on the northeast coast of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. Its name translates to "Frederik's harbor". It was originally named Fladstrand.

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synagogue- A jewish temple where jewish people pray

Rosh Hashanah - The jewish new year

Sabbath - a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jewish people from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday.

Lutheran - a type of christian

Chanukah - a jewish festival

Tivoli - A garden in Denmark

Gestapo - A Nazi secret service over

Schalburg Corps - The Danish regiment of Nazi soldiers. (Danish Nazi)

Aarhus - A place in Denmark

Langelandsgade- A place in Denmark (Where Sussanne's parents were killed)

Rabbi - A jewish priest

Kosher - A type of way the meat is prepared.
To qualify as kosher, mammals must have split hooves, and chew their cud. Fish must have fins and removable scales to be considered kosher. Only certain birds are kosher. Generally speaking, they are birds that are non-predatory.

Cud means, a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More precisely, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination.

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The main ideas of this chapter are that Nazi Germany has just invaded the sovereign nation, the Kingdom of Denmark.
Another idea is the propaganda papers that are flying about on the streets saying that France and Great Britain are going to invade Denmark, it also mentions that Winston Churchill is a warmonger.
The last main idea that I can infer is that, even though the Nazi's invaded Denmark life is going on as normal except there are many tool's and soldiers of the German armed forces on the streets.