Book Thief is in a ‘twisted world’, it’s about a young girl, Liesel is orphan who is given new adoptive parents during WWII. Liesel befriends a young boy, Rudy who falls in love with her.
She finds comfort in borrowing books and reading them, her adoptive parents then take in and hide a Jewish in their basement.
The reality of the world in WWII, distorted minds living then in Germany, Liesel didn’t realize that Hitler, their Fuhrer, was behind all of this, the issue of propaganda. Kids were taught what was wrong was right, were brainwashed. QUOTE But later throughout the movie, Liesel realized what Hitler intentions were, after they took a Jew into their basement.
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I was also interested in the character of Liesel,
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Just her love for what is right.
Another bit of Liesel emotions that I was interested was the book thief words give Liesel life yet Hitlers words bring death. Like words have a lot of power, to lift people up yet the power to destroy and crumble people. Rudy “ You’re stealing books ! Why ?,” Liesel “ When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back”. ??????????
It also shows, the braveness of Liesel and her new family developing throughout the movie as they took a Jew into their basement, even though they knew the consequences of what could happen if they were caught. QUOTE, I think it would take a lot of courage to hide him and keep the promise that Hans made to Max’s Dad who saved Hans life in WWI,
Also the sense of relationships in the book thief, I felt that was important to the movie, it shows/helps characters developing. Like the relationship of Rudy and Liesel felt to me like it was a safe haven for both of them. Also showed as they got closer to each other Rudy, “
Goodnight Book Thief”, Liesel “Goodnight Fish”. Likewise the relationship between Hans
The book had so much power to it. One day, on Himmel street, the town had to get out and go to the shelter. All of the people who lived on Himmel Street were scared because there was a chance their street could get blown up by a bomb. Courageous Liesel pulled out the book, The Whistler. Liesel was sitting in the shelter and started to read the book out loud. “By page three, everyone was silent but Liesel” (Zusask 381) Liesel trapped all of the people's nervous and scared selfs to herself calm voice. The book was a power of silence. The common theme that connects the book Liesel has stolen is that the each book tell a chunk of her
“’Is my mother a communist?’ Staring. Straight ahead. ‘They were always asking her things, before I came here.’ … ‘Did the Fuhrer take her away?’ … ‘I knew it.’ The words were thrown at the steps and Liesel could feel the slush of anger stirring hotly in her stomach. ‘I hate the Fuhrer’ she said. ‘I hate him.’” (115)
...internationally and has often been called ‘Harry Potter and the Holocaust’, a young girl’s difficult yet determined journey towards maturity. However, there are some who argue that a book so sad and sentimental is hardly a suitable read for teenagers. In Zusak’s own country, the book was published for a more mature audience and I think it does require a grown-up head to interpret the complicated emotions portrayed in here. Still, reading it can be a life-changing experience for this book comes with a message of hope. Liesel is the embodiment of that hope, a personification of love and generosity that even Death comes to love and respect. Read The Book Thief for it’s a lesson for life and food for thought for our generation. Read it for it shows one how to hope, and above all, read it for Death, the narrator with a heart, who confesses that he is haunted by humans.
Finding beauty in ugly situations was a theme that was very key in the development of the Book Thief. This can be seen many times in the text and really brings the whole story together. Keeping a positive attitude in a bad situation and finding the good things is what keeps Liesel’s happiness. She may not have the best life yet she has a very positive outlook on life. It doesn’t matter the situation, you can always find happiness.
Every person goes through some event that may shape their lives, while it may be very small and uneventful like a simple conversation, or a death among the family, both of these events change how a person develops. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the main character Liesel has to suffer through the horrific events of World War II in Germany during Hitler's reign. In the beginning, Liesel loses her brother and ends up living with two adoptive parents. At first she is very scared and feeling lonely, but she ends up growing close to the Hubermans, especially Hanns who is her adoptive father. Later on, Liesel meets a young boy named Rudy who becomes her best friend and love interest. Also, she meets a jewish boy named Max who she cares alot about and teaches her strong lessons on overcoming loneliness. Finally, she meets the mayor's wife, Ilsa Hermann who lets her take books. All of these characters play a major role in the development of Liesel's life,
Books and other written works have been around since the first century. Written in different formats and telling unique stories, each book has helped someone learn or has given someone hope for the future. In The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger, a nine year old girl who has just been dropped off at her foster parents home, is at loss for words and cannot read nor write. Liesel understands that there is a great power in words and a certain hunger starts to grow in her to hold these words in her hands. This earns her the title book thief. After just witnessing the loss of her younger brother and her birth mother abandoning her, she starts to form an important relationship with books, each stolen book having to do with an important event in her life.
The people (Germans) that lived during the war were credulous about what Hitler said therefore their life turned out to be a debacle. Hitler used words to deceive and outsmart the others. He used words to make the Jews think a
The book shows this theme by displaying the ways that words have changed Liesel's life. This has been both positive and negative. In a positive way, words have given Liesel knowledge. At the beginning of the book Liesel is illiterate, but not long after her discovery of The Grave Digger’s Handbook she learns to read These words allow Liesel to look at the world in a whole new light. However as she becomes more intellectual, she begins to realize the negative ways in which words have power. We start to see this transition on page 115, “‘Is my mother a communist?’ Staring. Straight ahead. ‘They were always asking her things, before I came here.’ Hans edged forward a little, forming the beginnings of a lie. ‘I have no idea - I never met her.’ ‘Did the Führer taker her away?’” In this quote, Liesel begins to realize the problems that Hitler cause and that his words and propaganda are the source to Liesel’s struggles. Both the book and movie display this theme, however the book emphasizes the positive ways that words are power more so than the movie does. The movie puts a greater emphasis on how words can control people in a negative aspect more than a positive aspect. This is a key difference between the book and
First off Liesel lost her brother who was basically her best friend. Not only did her brother Werner die which is suffering enough for a young girl, she was the one to find him dead. That image will always be there in the back of her mind, and she will never be able to get passed that. Throughout the novel Liesel is still reminded of this event on a regular basis especially in her dreams, “Every night, Liesel would nightmare. Her brother’s face. Staring at the floor”(Zusak 36). The dreams moved her suffering from the outside world into her sleep which is usually a person’s escape from the world and their problems. One could imagine and hope Liesel would not have to experience anything else like losing her brother but their imagination will deceive them. During a Parade of Jews going through Molching Hans, Liesel’s foster father throws a piece of bread to a straggling Jew. This action is obviously a huge no in the Nazi book. As a result Hans is whipped for being a ‘Jew Lover’. Han’s knew this action had compromised his current situation of hiding Max; a Jew in their basement. (QUOTE). Max knew as well, Hans is now a target in the party’s eyes and he must leave, this is the moment when Liesel experiences more loss, “He could not see the figure in the kitchen window, but she could see him” (Zusak 397). Losing once again another person in her life that was important to her, caused Liesel to once
Liesel arrived at Himmel Street in Germany towards the beginning of World War II, and enrolled in the Hitler Youth Organization when she was of age. During her time on Himmel Street she slowly learned about books and reading, she learned to love them and want to read more. She stole books from the street and from a library atop a hill and those words became her life. While her home she bombed she read to the people in her bomb shelter. The words she read were her escape and they became the escape for the people in the shelter too. Liesel was working on her own story when everyone around her died. In the chaos of her home being bombed, carried her books with her as she looked for her family.
The amount of character growth and development is something that I really appreciate in any form of storytelling, but I especially thought that is was important in this
The first book Liesel steals when her brother passed away, is a symbol of her mother and brother, giving her a sense of safety and allowing for a more comfortable survival in her new home. When she starts reading the book, the words give her a sense of relaxation and make her want to read more. “The point is, it didn't matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was really more important” (38). This is very important because this is when Liesel starts to realize how much she loves books and when she starts to use her words powerfully. Also, words not only comforted Liesel but they also comfort everyone in the air raid shelter. During a life or death situation, words help ease her existence. “...soon a quietness started bleeding through the crowded basement. By page three, everyone was silent but Liesel...the youngest kids were soothed by her voice”(381). During the times in the air raid shelter, everyone is extremely scared. Bombs are being dropped very close to them and everyone is in a panic state of mind. When Liesel reads to them, it calms everyone down and helps people relax. This just shows how powerful words are even in the worst times. Lastly , Liesel is the only one to survive the unexpected bombing that happened when most people were asleep, but words had literally saved her life. “She survived because she was sitting in the
We watch death explore the beauty and ugliness of the human race in Markus Zusak’s book The Book Thief. We watch as Liesel, Hans, and Rosa do everything they can to help out a group of people who were treated with such disrespect during this time period. This group, the Jews, were beaten for taking food that was given to them, and when they died no one would even care. But, these few people gave them food, a place to hide, a sense of belonging, and and a reason to live. They have to work day and night, and do everything they can. Even though people aren’t so beautiful at all times, there is still hope. As we have learned in this book that even when 99 percent of humans aren’t so marvelous there is still that one percent that is to delightful that it would touch anyones heart.
“I saw the book thief three times” (Zusak 5). This quote shows the theme death is inevitable which overtakes Liesel’s life, the main character in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, because the narrator of the story is Death. He basically says that Liesel will be around the death of three different people and this is how Death finds her story. Liesel's story begins in a tragic way. On the way to her new home, Liesel shockingly loses her brother. She is now forced to cope with death. Given Liesel's series of unfortunate events, she has to learn how to cope with now learning that death is inevitable. The Book Thief is a 550 page novel that later became a major motion picture which takes place in Molching, Germany during World War II when the Nazi’s