JW: I found it exciting to know the follow up to this chapter starts off as a calm before the storm, shown almost like a foreboding action to peer into the future. The story tells of Cortez’s escape, sharing all the pain and agony that became of his troops. They cry out as their lungs fill with water and their body’s act as pin cushions. This part of the story excited me, what was going to come next. My idea has already been supported by my own knowledge of the events that aspired, a plague would hit soon after Cortez left. This is what the Chapter XV was about, the plague and the Tenochtitlan inhabitance. Gracia Limons, telling of the people's suffering was clear as day to me, what these people suffered was worse than the humiliation Cortez
In the novel the book thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel states, “as long as both she and Rudy lived she would never kiss that miserable, filthy Saukerl (Zusak, 55). Liesel Memiger, the protagonist in the novel, is the foster daughter of Hans and Rosa Huberman. When Liesel first arrives at Himmel Street, a boy with hair the color of lemons walks her to school for her first day, she does not like him at first, but little does she know he will become her best friend (Zusak, 25-34). This is ironic because Liesel never does kiss Rudy until after he is dead. Rudy Steiner is Liesel’s best friend he has hair the color of lemons `and is adventurous and courageous. He wants Liesel to kiss him throughout the whole book but she never does until he is dead. In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Death gives clear examples from Liesel and Rudy’s different points of view on their relationship and we can see how it changes throughout the story.
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak is narrated by death and begins when Liesel’s brother dies on a train with her and her mother. At her brother’s burial, she steals her first book, “The Grave Digger’s Handbook” and soon after is separated from her mother and sent to live with foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, in Molching, where the majority of the book takes place. At school, Liesel is teased because she can’t read so Hans teaches her to read when she wakes up from her frequent nightmares about her brother’s death. Hans is a painter and an accordion player and also plays the accordion for her after her nightmares. Liesel grows very close with Hans and also becomes close friends with her neighbor Rudy Steiner who constantly asks her to
... The plague was brought over by the Spanish who where immune to the disease, but the Aztecs weren't so lucky. Many where killed over the course of seventy days, including the new King Cuitlahucs (92). Obviously this had a dramatic impact because they lost their leader. Those that remained where very weak with a milder form of the disease (93). Obviously this affected their strength to fight.
In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak the narrator is Death, who shows itself as sympathetic and sensitive towards the suffering of the world and the cruel human nature, through its eyes, we can get to know the heartbreaking story of Liesel Meminger an ordinary, but very lucky nine-year old German girl; living in the midst of World War II in Germany. In this book the author provides a different insight and observation about humanity during this time period from a German view and not an Allied perspective, as we are used to.
In this essay I will talk about The Book Thief Characters. The characters are Liesel, Rudy, And Max. I Will talk about how they are Influenced by society in This Book/Movie. I am going to three Paragraphs about these three characters. This essay is going to be a Compare and Contrast Essay.
’’Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. Like soft silver…..upon seeing those eyes,she understood Hans Hubermann was worth a lot.’’ (Zusak,34) Liesel saw kindness in Hans Hubermanns eyes which made her feels more comfortable with him rather than Rosa Hubermann.
Bowden’s idea of why this happened focused mainly on the old misunderstood traditions of the tribes living in Mexico. He shows how the friars, churches and icons took the blunt of the revolts force. Bowden points out the religious differences and similarities be...
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, speaks about a little girl who's mother was taken away and who's brother died. Now she lives with the Hubermanns and quickly things begin to change. A Jew named Max starts living with the Hubermanns also. Bombs go off later and Nazis started checking basements for shelters. They realized of they get caught, Max could be killed and they can be in endangerment. Later Max leaves and Liesel tells her best friend, Rudy about Max. At the end everyone dies but Liesel and
The reaction of the Aztecs made the Spaniards took refuge. Meanwhile Hernan Cortés was away to fight Panfilo de Narvaez, he was going to apprehend him by order of Diego Velázquez (governor of Cuba). As a result, Cortes returns to the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, after having defeated Panfilo de Narvaez, returning with more men and kicking such a war, it is also when the Spaniards throw the bodies of Motecuhzoma and Itzcuauhtzin. After seven days of being besieged Spaniards prepared to leave at night, the city was then that could "get even" the Mexica called it the "Noche Triste", where the Spaniards who remained alive after being thrown into the canal Toltec and keep walking, they took refuge in Teocalhueyacan. The writer talks about the attitude of the Mexica when the Spaniards attacked, they believed that they would never return. so resume their normal activities and celebrations; although its tranquility lasted them little since then there was a plague that struck the Mexica, it was then reappeared Spanish on the side of Cuauhtitlan and resume the war, now by water in the brigs, giving gunshots and moving into the city, while some Mexica took refuge in Tlatelolco tried to defend others. Unfortunately for the Aztecs, the Spaniards took over everything by end of the book. The last pages of the book talks about
The Evidence: This page contains a panel sequence that relates to Vladek’s time as a prisoner of war. It begins with a German commander announcing that those who have been captured will assist in carrying dead and wounded German soldiers to Red Cross trucks. Here, Valdek is questioned of his whereabouts by two soldiers which he answers by leading them to the soldier he killed prior to being captured. This ends with Valdek coming face to face with the soldier and his remark, “And I said to myself: ‘Well, at least I did something.’”
Most of the characters in The Book Thief have been faced with oppression. In my opinion, Liesel has faced oppression the most. Liesel has gone from a shy, quiet girl to a girl that is adventurous and daring. She isnt scared anymore. Liesel was put into foster care. Her mother was not able to care for her anymore and that put a huge weight on Liesle's shoulders. On the way to Hans and Rosa Hubermans, her brother died. Liesel was very upset and I think at that time Liesel changed. She was depressed and angry. She didnt understand why her brother had to die and she didnt understand why she was being put in a foster home. Also, when the Hubermans decided to hide a jew Liesel made a promise to Papa to not tell anyone and since Max was a secret it
In The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, beauty and brutality is seen in many of the characters. Rudy, Liesel, and Rosa display examples of beauty and brutality often without realizing what exactly they are doing, because it is a part of their human nature. Zusak not only uses his characters, but also the setting of the novel in Nazi Germany to allude to his theme of the beauty and brutality of human nature. The time in which the novel is set, during World War II, displays great examples of beauty and brutality, such as the mistreatment of the Jews. As a result of this time period, the characters have to go through troubling times, which reveals their beautiful and brutal nature in certain circumstances. Zusak uses his characters and their experiences to demonstrate the theme of the beauty and brutality of human nature in the novel.
The downfall of the Aztec Empire was a major building block of the Spanish colonial empire in the Americas. Spain’s empire would stretch all the way into North America from the Southwest United States all the way up the Pacific Coast. The unfortunate side effect of this was the elimination of many nations of indigenous people. The three major themes shown in this conquest really give deeper look into the anatomy of this important historical event. Without context on the extent of native assistance given to Cortez in his fight with the Aztecs, a reader would be grossly uniformed. The Spanish conquest was closer to a civil war than an actual conquest. Until reading detailed personal accounts of the fighting it is difficult to judge the deadly effectiveness of the Spaniards technological superiority. Without it is difficult to imagine 500 conquistadors holding thousands of native warriors at bay. Once the greed of Cortez and greed in general of the Europeans one understands that if it wasn’t Cortez if would have just been a different man at a different time. Unfortunately fame and prosperity seem to always win over cares about fellow human beings
In schools, students are being taught wrong information. “Our gods were vanquished after the fall of Tenochtitlan as were our traditions. Our warriors and nobles were eradicated, our children starved and our women ravished by the white conquerors and their allies.” (157). In books across America, the Spaniards were said to be good people, but the way that Huitzitzilin described what happened, shows the complete opposite of how the Spaniards actually were.
In markus zusak’s the book thief liesel meminger and max vandenburg experience loss of hope and loss of loved ones. Liesel meminger experiences loss of loved ones when her brother dies. Proof of this is “still in disbelief, she started to dig. he couldn’t be dead. he couldn’t be dead. He couldn’t (5.60). The death of liesel's brother causes great suffering, it also sparks an understanding of max’s suffering. Liesel meminger also experiences loss of hope when max gets sick and falls unconscious. Proof of this is “don’t die” she whispered. “Please, max, just dont die”(zusak pg 316). The occurrence of max’s illness and coma this made liesel worry and the longer it took for max to wake up the less hope she had that it would happen. In comparison, max vandenburg experiences loss of hope