The Upstair's Room Theme

What if you were a child that had to seperate from their family because of your religion? In the book The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss a family is torn apart and hunted down by German Soldiers to be sent to dreadful Concentration camps to work for the Nazi’s. The Nazi’s made them make guns, ammo, and other horrible work for the war. Annie’s family was separated when the family was going to go into hiding. Annie was forced to leave her mother that was ill and had to stay at the hospital. Later in the book their mother died. When Annie went into hiding she was accompanied by her sister Sinni, her father had went somewhere else but he did survive. Even in these dark times a shrivel of hope keeps people going. Annie never gave up because of that shrivel of hope.
“Leave it to me”...“I’ll be careful I promise” (Reiss,147).

This was demonstrated when the character was being bold and wanted to go get wool by herself,that meant that she had to go outside. “Now i’ll have to wait till Dientje comes up here with more wool sometime today”...“Where are you going” Sini asked. “To get some wool”...“I’ll be careful I promise” (Reiss, 147). Annie was filled with bravery during these hard times. There could have been a german soldier behind that door but she was bold.
Annie was forced to do things that she didn’t agree with, things that she didn’t want to do, or things that didn’t make sense. When Annie was forced to leave her mother she refused but then she learned that it was what she had to do to survive. “I felt bad for her… That’s the last time I would see her and the last time she would see me” “But it was what I needed to do” (Reiss 26). Annie knew it was the wrong thing to do but the right thing to do for her and her family to survive. Additionally, there was one main setting in The Upstairs