1.The Grave Digger’s Handbook: Represents the last time Liesel saw her mother and her brother. It is the first book Liesel steals and reads, and it helps her start reading. 2.The Shoulder shrug: Second book Liesel steals. She adds up things that have happened and realizes that Hitler/The fuhrer's responsible for them. It’s an act of rebellion against him,since it was going to be burnt. Opens doors to more books since someone saw her steal the book. 3.The Dream Carrier: Liesel steals the book for Max. It represents her relationship with Max. 5.The Whistler: Signifies her friendship with rudy. Rudy saves the book after it is thrown in the river, and asks Liesel for a kiss for the last time. 4.Han’s Accordion: Belongs to her foster father.Liesel took it after Himmel st was bombed and he died. It links Hans and max, and it …show more content…
The title and quote from the book describe how she feels. After she finishes the book she rips up another book and leaves a note for the mayor’s wife, which leads to Ilsa giving Liesel a blank book to write herself. 8.The Standover Man: Max makes the book for Liesel’s birthday. In the book he talks about how they have things in common, and how she gave a gift to him on her birthday. It connects her to Max. 9.The Word Shaker: The second/last book Max made. The books tells Liesel of the power of words and how the Fuhrer used them. It represents Liesel and Max’s friendship. 10.The Book Thief: Liesel writes this book, and it saves her life when she goes down into the basement to revise it, and is protected from the bombs.Liesel writes the book to explain everything she went through. She loses it after the bombing, but death picks it up, and shows it to her when she dies. Part One Arrival on Himmel
Liesel yearns to discover the power of words through reading books. Throughout the story, she repeatedly steals books to grasp more information. It all starts with The Gravediggers Manuel; Liesel attains this book the day that her brother dies, while he is being buried by the gravediggers. Liesel pilfers this book from the gravediggers because the book will symbolize her remembrance of her brother, Werner. This also will start the beginning of her acrimony for the Fuhrer, because Liesel discovers that he is answerable for his death.
Max uses Mein Kampf as a kind of cover so people wouldn’t suspect that he was a Jew and he escapes to the Hubermann’s house as Hans promised to help the Vandenburg’s if they ever needed it as he was friends with Max’s father in the war and Max’s father saved Hans’ life. Liesel is curious but also scared of Max at first but they bond over the fact that they both have nightmares, have lost their families and are both “fist-fighters” Since Max is always hiding in the basement, Liesel begins to describe the weather to him and brought him snow where they had a snowball fight and built a snowman with Hans and Rosa. Soon after, Max falls ill and she brings him 13 presents, hoping that he will wake up and reads to him every morning and night. Max also begins to share stories with Liesel and for her birthday makes her a book called “The Standover Man” which is about his life and journey. Max also begins to have daydreams where he fights Hitler and Hitler always uses his words to excite the crowd and uses them as a weapon. Liesel and Rudy also begin to steal food with a group of
2. What is ironic about Liesel’s obsession with stealing books? Discuss other uses of irony in the novel.
Suffered the loss of her brother werner, while attending his funeral “there was something black and rectangular lodged in the snow. Only [liesel] saw it. She bent down and picked it up and held it firmly in her fingers. The book had silver writing on it” (zusak 24). It was a book named “the grave digger 's handbook”. This proves that without even understanding the book Liesel was already looking for ways to learn and find a passion to mourn her brothers death. Next, is the relationship Liesel has with her papa, Hans. He shows Liesel how to read and write. Liesel, who doesn 't know how, grabs books that Hans then quietly shows her to translate. He does this through their night time nightmare hours “Unofficially, it was called the midnight class, even though it commenced at around two in the morning” (70). furthermore in the storm cellar, utilizing Hans ' paints to show her how to compose. He is staggeringly understanding, as this is an extremely troublesome and moderate procedure, and he never demonstrates restlessness or dissatisfaction with Liesel 's moderate advancement, thus proving that liesel stuck with her idea and followed through with her passion. Lastly, Liesel 's passion for reading and writing progressed when Ilsa gave her the a journal to write her story in, “[she] thought if [Liesel was not] going to read anymore of [her] books, [she] might like to write one instead.”
The novel The Book Thief is a book about a young girl by the name of Liesel Meminger. Observing the life of this young girl is not easy as this is the time of Hitler’s reign in Germany. In a short period of time, this girl faces many difficulties. More than any child should ever have to encounter. She has to deal with being abandoned by her mother, the death of her younger brother, and relocation to another part of Germany. Immediately when Liesel arrives to Molching, her life is forever changed. She is forced to live with two strangers, now her new mama and papa. Liesel faces much abuse both at school and at home. At school she is made fun of for her illiteracy and at home, mama speaks very rudely to her calling her a swine and other insults.
Fellow classmates in Liesel’s class mock her because she didn’t read the passage he was instructed to read. This shows Liesel experiences unhappiness because of her lack of reading and the power of words.
Max and Liesel firstly bond over reading; she practices asking him if the Mein Kampf is a good read and the fact they both had left close family before arriving to Himmel Street. Then Liesel discovers Max also has constant nightmares, “In their separate rooms, they would dream their nightmares and wake up, one with a scream in drowning sheets, the other with a gasp for air” (Zusak 219). Soon after Liesel asks Max what he dreams about
Every book that Liesel comes across has a memory attached to it, and has a significant impact on her actions and relationships. Liesel Meminger is the diligent, compassionate, and assertive star of the novel. She loves books so much that she begins to steals them, even before she knows how to read! Liesel had a tough start towards reading. In fact, without her foster father Hans, and his dedication towards teaching her, she would never have learned how to read at all. Since then, reading has captured Liesels interest. Throughout her stay with her foster parents Liesel found refuge, power, and a clearer understanding of the events that shape up her life.
Liesel Meminger, the protagonist of The Book Thief, lost her loved ones and her mother was deemed unfit to parent. Thus, she was taken under the wing of a foster family, the Hubermanns. Liesel’s tragic past has a part to play in her circumspect nature. Owing to that, she found it hard to open herself to Hans and Rosa Hubermann but as time progresses, Liesel’s defensive self begins to dissipate slowly which paved a path for the foster parents to develop a loving relationship with Liesel. Initially, Liesel’s relationship with Hans lacked emotional strength. However, this fragile relationship gradually became one which was tightly-knitted as Hans was able to win Liesel’s trust. The narrator, Death, first describes the scene where it dawned on
...t Max gave to Liesel as a gift. This book represents the power of words, and how words can make a difference in a person’s life.The readers are engaged because it is interesting know the back stories behind these books when we read about them in the novel. Finally, Hans’ accordion symbolises comfort in The Book Thief. When Hans leaves to go fight in the war, he leaves his accordion at home with Rosa and Liesel. This is the moment that Liesel know that Rosa truly does love Hans, although she might not show it. “Liesel watched. She knew that for the next few days, Mama would be walking around with the imprint of an accordion on her body” (429). Rosa, Liesel’s “Mama”, keeps the accordion close to her heart because it reminds her of her husband, Hans, whom she misses so much. In The Book Thief, symbolism attracts attention to certain thematic ideas and the novel itself.
At the beginning of the book, Liesel is with her mother standing next to the grave of her now deceased brother. She picks up a book that the grave digger has left behind; "The Grave Diggers Handbook", and hides it beneath her jacket. The character, Death, describes this by stating, "The book thief had struck for the first time time-the beginning of an illustrious career" (29). This is the start of her journey in gaining knowledge and self-identity. The book itself is irrelevant to her, but significant in that she desires to gain knowledge on anything in whatever form it may take. But, from here on she continues to use every available opportunity that she can to obtain books to read. Liesel's actions depict her gaining knowledge and self-identity. Later on, Liesel contemplates over the idea of "communism", an idea and topic outlawed in Germany. "When Liesel asked her mother what it meant, she was told that it wasn't important, that she shouldn't worry about such things" (31). Liesel has the knowledge that she lives in a place where her freedom is limited and she understands that there are things you cannot do without a resulting
Liesel loves Max; a Jew, while during the Holocaust. An example of this is when Liesel never stops searching for Max. Liesel also goes through the crowd of Jews to find Max. She even risks her life for him. Liesel gets nightmares and bonds with Max while he’s in the basement. She brings Max a newspaper so he can do crosswords. Both Liesel and Max love books, which they connect with even more. Max promises to give Liesel a gift for her birthday. Max also teaches Liesel about how to never give up. Max and Liesel love each other, even though they constantly live in fear.
Liesel experiences abandonment throughout her life, and the novel during a suppressed time in World War II Germany. Through her experiences Liesel’s learns to equate abandonment with love knowing that circumstance have forced her loved ones to leave her.
During Markus Zusak’s book we observe the beauty of humans at many times. One of the most beautiful things a human does is when Max, the jew the Hubermanns are hiding from the nazis, gives Liesel a book that he made himself. But he says that “Now I think we are friends, this girl and me. On her birthday it was she who gave a gift to me”(Zusak 235). Max made this book for leisel by taking paint from the basement and painting over pages in Mein Kampf. He lets the pages dry and then he writes a story on them. He makes this book for Liesel because he can’t afford to buy one, and even if he could he can’t leave the house. But when he gives Liesel the book we also examine humans doing something so unbelievably nice. Liesel accepts max as a friend. Which in the long run will help Max out a lot, because he is locked in the basement and he can’t even go up stairs during the day. So someone who is there to talk to him, and someone for him to talk to will help him out. Throughout this book we watch their friendship grow. Liesel feels bad for Max because he is stuck in the basement so on a regular basis she will tell Max what the weather is like...
With every book Liesel receives, the books start to have a significance in her life. All from The Gravedigger’s Handbook to her own book. The first book she gets is the start of her closeness to Hans, who read and taught her to read using this book. The Shoulder Shrug is the second book she steals during a bonfire featuring a Jew protagonist, which showed her hatred for Hitler. Death even states, “It would inspire Hans Hubermann to come up