With nothing to do, he explores and finds Shmuel, a Jewish boy that is being held in the camp. They become good friends but their friendship leads Bruno to a mistaken death. The authors of these two texts use similar themes to convey a story of relationships within the books. The relationships within these two stories both witness death. In The Book Thief, Liesel and Rudy both face death; Liesel more so than Rudy as she has to deal with the loss of not only her entire family but also the loss of her best friend.
The first was on a train when Death came to collect her brother, the second was when he came for a pilot who crashed his plane, and the third was after a bombing. It was during his first visit, that Liesel the main character discovered a copy of The Gravedigger’s Handbook, which was only a “first of a series of books she [would] find or steal”. It was after this moment that Death would forever think of Liesel as the book thief and decides to tell her life’s story. Liesel was left to her own devices while she lived her with foster parents, a
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Book Thief is a story narrated by Death and is about a young girl by the name of Liesel Meminger in Nazi Germany whose mother planned to drop her and her brother off with foster parents in the fictional town of Molching, Germany. She could no longer take care of them, and on the train ride there, her brother died. That’s when Liesel stole her first book, The Grave Digger’s Handbook. She went on to meet her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann and Rudy Steiner, her best friend. Hans and Rosa began to hide a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement until Hans made a mistake that forced Max to leave before the authorities came and found him.
By 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne’s father’s office building. Two years later, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945. On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank received a diary and began documenting from that moment on.
The main character, Meg, found a diary of a dead classmate in her coat pocket and on one of the first pages, she reads “and their doom comes swiftly” (McNeil, 139). Another example is “Does he know how I feel? How much it hurts” (McNeil, 210). About a chapter before Meg and T.J. read that diary entry, their friend Nathan was found hanging from a door with an arrow in his chest going straight through his heart. 2.
“… Who was it that wrote to the chemist saying his wife was a prostitute? And who was it that gave the lollipop man a nervous breakdown?” We also learn that the ‘kiddy’ has died of Leukemia and that the ‘couple opposite’ were actually going to visit him in the hospital every night. She then is given a suspended sentence and has to get regular visits from social workers, both of whom Miss Ruddock doesn’t like. You would think Miss Ruddock would redeem herself, instead Miss Ruddock continues to write letters this time to report the policeman whom she thinks is having an affair with the woman in ‘no. 56’.
(Brown 2) Then August 4, 1944 someone tipped off the police and the Frank’s, Van Daan’s, and Mr. Dussel were all sentenced to attend the Bergen-Belson concentration camp in Germany. (Brown 2) Anne’s sister, Margot, was the first of both the families to die. (Gale 3) She died of a typhus epidemic that broke out in the camp. (Brown 2) Anne was never informed that her sister had died, but she had a feeling something was wrong. (Brown 2) Ernst Schnabel, on the topic of Anne Frank, wrote: “She sensed it, and soon afterwards she died, peacefully, feeling that nothing bad was happening to her.” (Brown 2) The epidemic killed around 17,000 prisoners.
As sepia toned colours wash across the screen, the camera quickly zooms in to show the train is carrying Liesel and her mother and brother. Leisel looks over and finds that her brother’s nose is bleeding, and we quickly learn that he has died. From this point onwards, the story focuses on the time Liesel spends with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Huberman The Book Thief focuses on Liesel, a young girl who escapes from the horrors surrounding her by stealing books and learning to read. All the while her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann (played by Geoffery Rush and
Later, when the family takes in a Jewish man, Max Vanderburg, and hides him away, Leisel shares her love of words with him, too. Desperate for new reading material, Liesel, with the occasional help of her friend Rudy, steals books from a Nazi book-burning pile, that the wife of the mayor just so happens to see. The Mayors wife, with a shared love of reading, introduces Liesel to her amazing private library that Liesel will soon, frequently sneak into and take from. All seems well, but when the Allied bombs begin to fall on their street, things get even worse and death begins to close in on Liesel, her family and her friends. The Book Thief is a very memorable story.
"The Moonlit Road" Summary This horror story was told by three different narrators: Joel Hetman, Jr., Casper Gattan, and the late Julia Hetman with help from Medium Bayrolles. While Joel Hetman, Jr., was away at college, his father sent him a telegram, urging him to come home right away. When he returned, he discovered that his mother was brutally killed through strangulation. One day, Joel and his father were outside; Joel's father was certain that he saw someone out there, but Joel, Jr., couldn't see anything. A moment later, Joel's father disappeared; he was never heard from again.