The flow of corruption is clear in the old and new generations of Sweden in Larsson’s novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Crookedness is in the Vanger Family, as Blomkvist, a protagonist who plays a Swedish journalist investigates the disappearance of Harriet Vanger as he meets the past family secrets and the remaining Vangers. As well, more corruption is explored by a major player, Wennerström, in the financial sector of the novel. The investigation of business corruption causes Blomkvist a ruined reputation as a journalist and consequently jail time. Another protagonist, Salander, an intelligent women misunderstood by society, becomes a victim of her corrupted guardian, a man who is trusted by the court to care for, however, he instead …show more content…
Blomkvist, a man charged of libel due to an attempt to expose a corrupt business man works to reveal Wennerström illegal practices. As the plots of two characters switch back and forth ultimately they combine and both characters work together to identify the corruption in Sweden each one encountered. Slander states, “Wennerström is a gangster’. . .‘I[Blomkvist] know’. . .‘No, I mean, I know that he’s a gangster. He works with everybody from the Russian mafia to the Colombian drug cartels’. . .‘What do you mean?’. . .‘When I turned in my report to Frode he gave me an extra assignment. . .”(?). Blomkvist and Salander use their knowledge to identify the wrongdoings in business, Salander’s hacking skills helps finish Blomkvist's job in exposing the CEO’s illegal private offshore accounts. In addition, before the juxtaposition of plots comences in the novel, Salander becomes victim of her corrupted guardian, Nils Bjurman. Bjurman is entrusted by the court with the care of a Lisbeth Salander. The man’s power is taken advantage to sexually violate Salander which traumatizes her. Although Salander suffers rape, her character is able to move past it and ecpose other corrupt individuals, then demonstrating the theme, innacuracy of
Vanger is not an isolated example; numerous times in this Swedish novel do misogynistic and sadist examples appear. Nor does the book portray an isolated culture of sadists in Sweden, as is evidenced by Lisbeth Salander who says that, “by the time she was 18…did not know a single girl who at some point had not been forced to perform some sort of sexual act against her will” (Larsson 228).
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a story filled with many emotions that help to bring the characters to life with many of them going through hardships and feelings of great loss. Death states, “I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both” (Zusak 491). The characters in The Book Thief such as Liesel, Hans, Rosa, Rudy, and Max find themselves in situations where they have to act a certain way so as to not put their own lives in danger. Even if they don’t believe in the same things or have the same values as the Nazi Party, they must pretend in order to keep themselves from danger. Sometimes in order to protect themselves and each other, they must do things that would be considered either ugly or beautiful actions.
“The Book Thief” and the “Berlin Boxing Club” were both astonishing books. Liesel from the “The Book Thief” and Karl from the “Berlin Boxing Club” were very powerful characters by the end of these books. Though, at the beginning of the books these characters were far from anything powerful. In fact, they were small and weak. In a way, these characters were both alike, but so different. Liesel and Karl changed and grew throughout the course of these books. They both had struggles that over time shaped them into amazing, independent characters.
The Book Thief’s main character is Liesel Meminger throughout the book she develops more and more by opening up and doing new things. At first she was very shy and would not do hardly anything for example, “It took nearly fifteen minutes to coax her from the car. It was the tall man who did it. Quietly.”(28) That is when she first got out of the car “There was the gate next, which she clung to.”(28) This shows all the more how shy she was at the beginning of the book when she first arrived on Himmel Street. Then as the book goes on she starts to adopt her foster-mother, Rosa or Mama’s style of speaking and starts cussing some when talking to her best friend, Rudy and even the mayors wife when she terminated her mothers washing and ironing service “You give me this Saumensch of a book and it’ll make everything good when I go and tell my mama that we've just lost our last one?”(262) The underlined word is a swear her mother uses very frequently in the book. Then at last later in the book she gets so comfortable in Molching that she starts stealing books from the mayor’s mansion “She couldn't tolerate having it given to her by a lonely pathetic old woman. Stealing it on the other hand seemed a little more acceptable.”(287) This is from the first book she stole titled The Whistler. As the story goes on more she develops even more stealing food and more books as well as growing to love Rudy and spend more time with Max, the Jewish man the hide from the Nazis, and talks like her mother more and more.
The world we live in is molded by History. Every event since the dawn of time has led up to now, and every event now is leading up to tomorrow and beyond. “The Book Thief “, is a Historical Fiction novel written by Markus Zusak. In the book, a young girl named Liesel is fostered by a poor German couple, and comes of age through the Third Reich and Second World War. During the book many Historical events affected Leisel’s life. The three historical events that most promentaly impacted the course of Liesel’s life in The Book Thief, are the rise of the Nazi Party, the German invasion of Poland, and the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
By the end of the book, it is finally revealed that Liesel is the writer behind The Book Thief. Through the clever way Zusak finalizes the book, it illustrates how much Liesel has grown, matured, and learnt throughout the entire book. Through the tragedy that transpires towards the end of the book, Zusak completes the Epilogue by having the narrator (death) “handover” the book to return to Liesel after he arrives to take Liesel away. During the bittersweet ending it quotes, “... And I pulled a dusty black book from my pocket. The old woman was astonished. She took it in her hand and said ‘is this really it?’ I nodded… Even Though the text had faded she was able to read her words. The fingers of her soul touched the story that was written so long ago in her Himmel Street Basement.” (549-550) These final words emphasize the significant impact Lisel has made in regards to the perspective of the reader. Throughout this book liesel clearly proves that through passion and interest, you have the power to stand up for what you believe in and can, meaningfully convince others, to do what is
Liesel’s continuation of stealing from the library helps to develop Ilsa’s character, which seems very vital to the novel. The reader only sees such a broken, quiet woman as Liesel’s time with Ilsa continues, but Liesel’s actions
Liesel steals the books she is ,at the same time, liberating them from destruction. The whole idea of stealing as a horrible thing to do comes into question. Liesel risks death or torture in doing this as well. Her theft is also a self-education and an act of rebellion against the Nazis. Lie...
After Liesel regularly visited Ilsa Hermann, the mayor’s wife, to collect the laundry, she was eventually invited in to read books from their home library. Once Liesel had taken four books from Ms.Hermann’s library, she decided to write a letter of apology. Ms.Hermann responded by giving Liesel a “little black book”; she encourages Liesel to write saying “You can certainly write. You write well” (Zusack 523). Liesel writes constantly in the book down in the basement, she found her passion in reading and now strives for one in writing. The book, titled, The Book Thief, literally saves Liesel’s life. While she finishes her last line of her book, the narrator says “Outside, the world whistled. The rain was stained” (Zusack 528). This describing the bombing that was happening on Himmel Street, that killed everyone that Liesel knew, in their sleep, whilst she was editing her work in the
Isaac and Flora Bloom are Jews living in Bremerhaven, Germany. Up until now, they have managed to avoid capture by the Nazis mainly by bribing a soft Police Street Captain. However, all too soon, the Captain is found out putting Isaac and Flora into the merciless hands of Polmer who replaces him. Polmer, who operates strictly by the rules, sends the Blooms’ to Ravensbruck for imprisonment.
Clearly, Ibsen criticizes this in the act 2’s scene in which Nora attempts persuade Torvald to forgive the infamous Krogstad for the peace of the family when he states, “Isn’t it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving quill-driver’s vengeance?” (Ibsen 35). This metonymy associates “a starving quill-driver” to Krogstad as it reveals Torvald’s opinion toward Krogstad as just a poor writer. His emphasis on view of Krogstad in a negative light causes him to overlook the potential damage to his family socially and financially that he encompasses. Furthermore, this device allows the audience to connect with Torvald as both don’t look past the societal appearances of others. However, Ibsen uses the power Krogstad possesses over Torvald to elucidate his opinion that merely following societal images of individuals serves as an ineffective way of truly understanding someone. Torvald’s obsession of societal appearances again becomes criticized in the act 3’s scene in which Nora separates from Torvald when Ibsen states “An abyss has opened between us—There is no denying it. But, Nora, would it not be possible to fill it up?” (Ibsen 66). In this metaphor Ibsen compares the deteriorative and terrible condition of Torvald and Nora’s relationship to an abyss to bring an effect that the relationship became very dark with no
“The Necklace”, narrated by Guy de Maupassant in 3rd person omniscient, focuses the story around Mathilde Loisel who is middle class, and her dreams of fame and fortune. The story is set in 19th century France. One day, Mathilde’s husband brings home an invitation to a fancy ball for Mathilde; to his surprise Mathilde throws a fit because she doesn’t have a dress or jewelry to wear to the ball. M. Loisel gets her the beautifully expensive dress she desires and Mathilde borrows a diamond necklace from Mme. Forestier, a rich acquaintance of Mathilde. Mathilde goes to the ball and has a night she’s dreamed of, until she gets home from the ball at 4 A.M. to find
Liesel Meminger is the main character in this story. She is recognized as “the book thief” because of what she pursued in order to attain a legitimate education. She lost her immediate family when she was just twelve years old which must have had a detrimental impact on her childhood. She was taken up by the Hubermann’s in which she was raised in a somewhat caring and compassionate environment in which Hans played a big role in her development. Throughout the plot, she plays an important
Cinderella’s mother passed away and her father remarried a woman who had two daughters from a previous marriage. A few weeks passed and a prince is holding a three day festival and all the beautiful young girls in the town were invited. Cinderella wanted to go but her evil stepmother gave her two impossible tasks to complete before she could attend the festival. Cinderella completes the two tasks with the help of her bird friends and her mother’s grave. Cinderella goes to the festival and she dances with the prince all three days. Finally, the prince has fallen in love with her and eventually they get married. Fairytales and Disney productions threaten gender politics and women’s role by portraying women in certain areas like domestic behaviors