The Book Thief Quotes Analysis

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Courtney Freeman Christine Nicodemus English 1100 Section 113 19 September 2013 Barcott Journal 4 1. Choose at least three quotes that caught your attention. After each quote, write a paragraph analyzing a) what the quote means in the context of the pages you read (110-141) and b) what the quote means in the context of the whole book so far. “If my premonition played out and I was dead by age thirty, my time was running out.” (p. 114) The author in this particular quote is talking about how he feels like he needs to get the CFK organization up and going because for some reason he feels like he won’t make it past the age of thirty. I think he feels like the organization is his way of doing something for the world because he, at the…show more content…
What is funny is that Kasha only let people who he trusted into his house and they were the only ones who knew what and where his prized possessions were. So the fact that they took just those certain things was hurtful to him because he thought he could trust his so called “friends”. It sad that people who he thought he could trust would actually go into his home, hold a knife to his throat, and take the things he loved the most. 2. Chapters 7-9 reintroduce the reader to several characters Rye had met during his previous time in Kibera. Choose at least 3 characters and analyze how the relationship between each character and Rye has changed during the time why he was away? What may have contributed to this change? Was the change positive or negative? Use quotations from the text to support your ideas. In these three chapters the reader is once again introduced to three characters that were met previously on Barcotts first trip to Kibera. We meet Elizabeth and Oluoch, the married couple who Rye stayed with on his first trip to Kibera. Then there is Taib who Rye also met on his first trip in Kibera, who Rye thought he would be able to trust due to Taib kindness while Rye was in Kibera the first time. Unfortunately these three people seem to end up not being the best people for Rye and the
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