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.
Anna Funders narrative Stasiland investigates the ‘forgotten’ history of the communist regime that ruled East Germany from 1961-1989, showing an exploration of human courage and conscience. Funder spiritedly attempts to understand the totalitarianism and motives behind the stasi, through analysing unimaginable stories from ordinary people of the GDR, whose lives have been taken away during the communist era, the stasi had brought loss, devastation and loneliness to the victims and also ex stasi informers. By using 1st and 3rd person narrative, funder is able to strongly assert her own thoughts and opinions as history should not be ‘hidden’, also funder becomes more of a tour guide for readers as they follow along her journey creating a powerful scene of
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.
” I am haunted by humans.” If there is one thing that everyone has in common, it is birth and death. The aforementioned quote from the novel, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is the last line of the book from the narrator, Death. It shows the potential of the human race, because it is more commonly thought that the human race fears death, and not the other way around. The Book Thief takes place during World War II, when Adolf Hitler, better known as the Fuhrer to the Germans, set up the Third Reich, or Nazi Germany in order to make Germany the world’s superpower. However, Hitler’s ambitions were not supported by every German citizen, due to the consequences and results he/she faces.
Summary of Their Eyes were watching God The book starts with Janie walking back to her home in Eatonville after running off with a younger man named tea cake. When she returns she hears everybody talking about her than her friend Pheoby rushes over to ask her where have she been in she tells Pheoby her life story. She tells pheoby that she was raised by her grandmother that she called nanny. Janie’s grandmother was a slave who became pregnant by her owner who is Janie mother who named is Leafy. Leafy was raped by her school teacher and she became pregnant with Janie.
Your Name Name of Class Professors Name Date The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman The short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was first published in 1899 and is the journal of Jane who is quite ill with what is regarded as “temporary nervous depression” (Gilman, 1899). She is taken away on holiday by her husband, and kept in a room where she is meant to be healing. However, she finds herself distracted by the wallpaper in the room, and begins a downward spiral into complete psychosis as her perception of and relationship with the wallpaper evolves. The relationship with the yellow wallpaper is not the only thing that changes, as she soon begins to see distinct changes in her husband, her sister-in-law, and herself. She is compelled to unlock the secret of the wallpaper, at any
In the early parts of the story, when Edzi and Nani’s first child, Kofi, falls sick, it is attributed to the works of a wizard or witch tryin to suck the blood of the little boy. This belief is strengthened by the fetish priest who knows very well that the truth of the matter is far from what he would have the troubled mother and grandmother believe. He goes on to give the mother “a few simple rules to follow in other to preserve the life of her child.” Among these, he asks her to place a bowl of palm oil before each window so that “all witches and wizards travelling about at night, who might wish to take the life of the child, will drink the oil and besatisfied and so will not enter the room to drink the child’s blood. Even though we know this is not really the case, the grandmother, Dekpor, pays a huge sum of money to the priest because the society actually believes in the existence and works of witches and wizards. Again, when the child’s sickness reoccurs, we find his mother going through the town, beating a tin and shouting in a loud voice “you witches and wizards of this place, leave my child.
Anne Frank underwent a life changing twenty five months of hiding during her teenage years with her family and friends due to the overthrowing Nazi party in Germany . During these years feelings of fear, faith, and courage overwhelmed her but brought her through experiences that she documented, this has educated millions of people about the Holocaust. All aspects of life during hiding including what she struggled with, learned from, and thought about was captured in the pages of her diary. When Anne and her family are first sent into hiding, she has a very optimistic outlook on life. She is always thinking about how much worse it could be and how lucky she is to have what she is given and still have the comfort of her family.
Words can have a large effect on many things, they can affect what people do, they can change how people feel, words are extremely powerful . The book that I decided to read for my ISU is called “The Book Thief” it was written by Markus Zusak. Here is some background knowledge on the book Thief, the book thief took place before and during WWII. The main character throughout the story is a little girl named Liesel, she is an orphan and an only child as her younger brother dies at the beginning of the book. Later on in the book a jewish man named max shows up at their doorstep looking for somewhere to stay because he was told that he would be able to get help here.