Rudy Steiner, the neighbor with the hair color of a lemon, becomes Liesel’s best friend. He is the one to join her when she is stealing books. When Liesel finishes her first book, she wants to read more, but neither she nor her foster parents can afford them. That’s why she starts stealing. She steals books from wherever they can be found, even from Nazi
Avery Sirmans Mrs. Graham 1st Block April 11, 2013 Literary analysis paper: The Book Thief Stupidity is not courage. The Book Thief, a novel by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger is a small girl in Nazi Germany. Liesel is sent into foster care, and finds comfort in the words of books she steals. In a drastic Turn of events, she ends up hiding a Jew, in her basement, who becomes her friend. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger shows that stupidity can easily be mistaken for courage.
Literature is where emotions can be evoked, numbed, exposed or created. Sympathy for people, characters, that we do not actually know are usually one of the most common and one of the most powerful. Shakespeare's greatest quality is being able to create bonds between the character and the audience or reader. Why does one cry when Romeo and Juliet kill themselves at the end of the tragedy? It's emotion, the bond, the sympathy but why do Romeo and Juliet kill themselves?
It's a book called The Word Shaker. | | | Part 9 | When Rudy and Liesel steal another book they run into Ilsa and discover that the library is hers. Whenever Hans wins a game in cards Reinhold accuses him of cheating. Hans generously gives each colleagues a cigarette back. | | | On the truck with Han's unit Reinhold makes Hans switch seats with him.
Anne thinks that her sister, Margot, is smart, pretty, but she does not write much about her. Anne also develops a close friendship with Peter van Daan, the teenage boy in the annex. Anne’s diary ends without comment on August 1, 1944. However, the Frank family is betrayed to the Nazis and arrested on August 4, 1944. Conflict The German Nazis has something against Jewish people and is out to kill and enslave them.
We see this when she writes in her novel, the book thief, "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." This shows the reader that Liesel has realized the manipulative power of words and because of that hopes that through reading and writing compassionately she has ‘made them right’. We are shown the ability of words to comfort when Liesel reads to everyone while they wait for the air raids to finish. Death Narrates, “For at least 20 minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the crime scene.”- page 389 This shows that words can transport people into another world, giving them some temporary relief from their struggles and fears.
1. "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." (528) After encountering Max being forced on the way to a concentration camp, Liesel becomes hopeless of the written word, seeing Hitler's words as the source of her suffering. Ilsa Hermann gives her a blank book and encourages her to write hoping she will. While then, Liesel writes the story of her life, containing both tragedy and beauty, at a fevered pace.
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief is a story about a young girl named Liesel as she struggles to find friends and family in World War II. In the story Zusak uses Liesel’s feelings and bonds with her family and friends to show how forming ties with others can be a life changing event. At the beginning of the story Zusak, shows Liesel as a shy, stubborn, and timid girl, but when she opens up to Hans she starts to talk and interact with more people. “Liesel would not get out of the car,” and, “she clung to,” “she held on and refused to go inside.” When reading these lines I understood that she was not yet ready to let go of her old life. She was not ready to let go of her biological family, a brother who had just died not long ago, a mother who left for her safety and well being, and a father that she never knew.
The Book begins with an in depth description of Guy Montag (Our introduced “Anti-Hero”) burning books. He describes the various pleasures that he gets from burning said books in a way that is not only beautiful… but haunting with sentences like “his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history”. The book didn’t go into detail about whose books he was burning but I don’t think Guy even cared to know. Guy who is now headed home (oddly by foot) gets the feeling that he is being watched! He is then greeted by his new neighbor by the name Clarisse McClellan.
In the book thief, Liesel meminger is riding on a train to her adoption parents with her mother and brother, when her brother dies of unknown causes. While at a small makeshift funeral, Liesel takes the gravediggers handbook, and keeps it. She is adopted by Hans and rosa hubermann, Hans is a nice man but his wife rosa is angry personality, but is good hearted and nice on the inside. In a while she meets her neighbor and soon to be best friend, and lover. Liesel also developed a relationship with the mayors wife, which had its ups and downs, and is also were most of Liesels reading and book thievery was based.