PART B: What line from the poem provides the best support for the answer to Part A? A "The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwel
l" ( Line 2) B "For never-resting time leads summer on" ( Line 5) C "Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft" ( Line 11) D "But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet" ( Line 13)
The central theme of Number the Stars is the difficulty of growing up. One could make the case that Lowry uses the context of World War II as a way of making these difficulties stand out clearly.
