Like Peter, Malthe-Bruun wrote a letter to his family asking them to keep fighting for a world where human decency prevails over narrow-mindedness and prejudice.
Moreover, he was known as a sharpshooter because he could shoot down flying eagles with an old firelock that he cleaned almost every day until his death. Lowry based Peters character on Kim Malthe-Bruun, a young Danish Resistance fighter who she learned about when she was researching Number the Stars. In Number of Stars by Lois Lowry, the book primarily focused on the strategic events of the Holocaust during World War 2 and the discrimination of the Jewish. He could hide from enemies in the Yellow River for hours and steered rafts with heavy goods, even when water reached above his knees in the rushing current. He could hide and live alone in the mountains for years. He was known as the toughest man in the village because he had escaped from Ma Bufang's army three times. Locals said he was good at many things aside from telling stories and singing folksongs. I was told to call him Abu 'Grandfather' in the local A mdo Tibetan dialect.
1980) was a child, living in Ne'u na (Sne na, Nina) Village, Khri ka (Guide) County, Mtsho lho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Mtsho sngon (Qinghai) Province, I heard many stories from my grandfather, Rdo dpa' (1918-1996).
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