The Importance Of Friendship

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Secondly, friendship is a topic which is given insight upon throughout the novel in actuality and highlights key points of real world friendships. Notably, friendships can help you survive certain situations. For instance, in the novel, Hans and Erik’s friendship is arguably the reason why Max Vandenburg is alive. If they had not become friends Erik would not have accidentally saved Hans’s life; therefore Hans would not have owed Erik his life. Considering this, Max would have never come to live with the Hubermann’s when the rest of his family was presumably killed. This example allows the reader to see how making a bond between another person and yourself can benefit you or someone else. In this circumstance, their friendship leads to …show more content…

Finally, the novel shows that friendship can be more impactful than an intimate relationship in one’s life. For instance, this is shown in Liesel and Rudy’s friendship, where they show their love for each other through very simple and odd actions. To be specific, they often call each other obscene words as a form of affection. After Rudy’s death, Liesel has an outburst that shows the significance of their relationship. She says “‘Rudy… wake up… I love you’ [She kisses] her best friend… soft and true on his lips. He tastes like regret” (Zusak 535-536). This quotation shows the love that Liesel has for Rudy even though she doesn’t often show it. This allows the reader to gain the understanding that relationships do evolve and feelings of attraction can grow from a friendship. In summary, The Book Thief gives the reader important and insightful information about friendship and relationships, whether they are completely platonic or romantic in nature. These informing insights include: relationships can help people survive difficult situations, omitting information from a friend can help alleviate certain unfavourable situations such as death, and friendship can sometimes be the best form of …show more content…

Perseverance is shown through the actions of many characters. These actions include facing obstacles while trying to improve literacy skills, fighting to stay alive in a life or death situation, and surviving discrimination and oppression from a whole nation. Lessons about friendship are also shown through presenting that relationships can help one survive difficult circumstances, omitting information from a friend can help alleviate certain unfavourable situations such as death or punishment, and friendship can sometimes be the most uncomplicated form of love. Lastly, the novel shows contrasting views of power that occur throughout our world. These uses of power include using words in order to manipulate a group, literature having the power to impact one’s life and literature having the power to spread compelling ideas and influencing one’s ideology. This information is given in an interesting and lively way through the telling of a compelling story. The Book Thief shows that literature can give one crucial life lessons that many people will not learn from another

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