Character Analysis Of Hans Hubermann In The Book Thief

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Voltaire once said “[t]he longer we dwell on our misfortune the greater their power is to harm us”. Everyone has heard about bad luck and disaster, they are words that people just laugh at because they think that they will not be trapped into a situation where bad luck or disaster will come into hand. The proper word used for this type of situation is misfortune and misfortune is the decision of fate because it is the consequence humans put upon themselves by their actions. Humans do selfish things and expect the good to come of it and all that comes out of it is the bad, did anyone ever take the time to think that misfortune even affects those who do not deserve it but it was fate who chose to do it. It was fate who made those humans suffer …show more content…

He has had so much happen to him even before Liesel even came into his life and made him so much more happier. Hans Hubermann was sent to serve in the Air Raid Special Unit, which rescues survivors of air raids and collects the bodies of the victims. He only left because he saw how horrible it was watching young men die in front of his eyes because after his best friend Erik vandenburg, max’s father dies in front of Hans he was speechless, he couldn’t say anything other than so he left and went back to Rosa. Years later after liesel came into his life they told him to join again and so he did and after breaking liesel’s heart he went to serve his country and came back safely. Misfortune had hurt Hans a lot because he lost his best friend and was told to help their family whenever they needed it. Hans felt the misfortunes evil side and the burden of him quitting the army made him very sad because he never thought that he was going to ever experience things like that. Fate and destiny took Hans best friend and away and when max comes for help to Hans, Hans was all in because after what happened to father he knows what it feels like to lose someone that meant so much him. On the other hand talking about someone meaning so much to someone and doing anything for them, In Midsummer Night's Dream Oberon is a character who deals with misfortune of fate and destiny making his wife love an …show more content…

Like in the book thief liesel and hans both went through so much and misfortune impacted them in a negative way giving them no positive in the end. In midsummer night's dream because of puck oberon and the lovers went through so much just for love and misfortune turned out to making their story into a positive ending. Misfortune is undeserved when society does not use their actions in a negative way and think that they are going to sneak out of not getting caught, well guess what everyone gets caught at some point by misfortune and then regret it the rest of their life. The actions that society chooses show to the world is what comes back to haunt society because as a society people chose to do things that affected others causing them to have misfortune and those who chose to do it. Misfortune is not something that everyone deserves because some people choose to do things that are positive not things that are negative leaving an impact. Misfortune is deserved to those who deserve it and those who do not deserve it should not be punished for those who you do not do

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