Character Analysis Of Hans Hubermann In The Book Thief

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

for their consequences and everyone at some point in their life suffers from misfortune. In The book Thief by Markus Zusak and In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare there are many way that misfortune comes in and takes the story in into the hands of itself. Some character face many things that they deserve but also do not deserve, misfortune is the choice given to people who do not think about their actions affecting others. As the unknown once said [t]o be unaware of your own fault is the greatest misfortune”, and this is saying that people think that they can get away from not telling or knowing their own mistake but truly fate knows them and knows who to give the consequence to.

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Furthermore in The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger is a character who has dealt with misfortune and knows what it feels like to suffer something that was not meant to be. She lives in nazi germany and nazi germany has so much history and background information from the war to innocent people dying and having no rights and equality. Liesel is an 11 year old girl who is a character in the book thief and suffers misfortune, her mother abandons her because her mother was not able to educate and provide her needs so she was sent to Himmel street but on the way their her brother Warner died and after reaching Himmel street liesel met her foster parents Rosa and Hans Hubermann. Liesel was heart broken when her brother died and when she was told to leave her mother behind. Considering that even though so much has happened to her she tries to look past all of that and start a brand new life. The fact that she looked past all of her misfortunes, she makes a new friend Rudy steiner an 9 year old boy. More into the story she meets Max Vandenburg a family friend, someone that she can really relate to because they have so much in common from reading books to creating new ones. She makes connections with her foster parents even though they had a rough start but knowing that they were always their for liesel gave liesel a sense that she was going to being loved and kept safe no matter how bad the situation got. After all the new things that have happen to her, fate comes in and takes all that away from her, she not only lost her real family but lost her foster family, she lost her one best friend Rudy, and Max someone who was like a brother and always their for her. Misfortune tore liesel apart into pieces she was an 11 year old girl who didn’t deserve it, it was fate who decides to take all that meant to her away from her not for fun but for reasons that only liesel would know.

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However, Hans hubermann is a character in the The Book Thief who also suffers from misfortune.

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

“ass”. In the story Oberon is the king of fairies while his wife Titania is the queen of fairies, but their relationship is not the type of relation a normal couple would have because their is this arguing and bickering and they both just do not get along with each other. Oberon is very frustrated and is tired of fighting and just wants Titania to love him

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the same way he loves her. But before getting the love in idleness Puck was the one to turn botton into the ass making titania fall in love with him. Then Oberon tells Puck his helper to get the love in idleness to make Titania fall in love with him. After getting the potion Oberon sees how the lovers are having trouble with their relationship so he sends Puck to go put two drops of the potion into their eyes and so after applying it into their eyes Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena and Helena is very intimidated that two guys who love Hermia are after her. So Helena tells them that they should stop playing this game and to leave her alone while Hermia comes from searching Demetrius and figuring out that he is in love with Helena. Hermia gets upset and leaves then at night Oberon sends Puck back to fix the mistake and trouble they have caused by dropping two drops of the potion into their eyes and when they wake up they’ll be in love with the right person. Furthermore after all that trouble oberon caused the lovers to go through he wanted to solve his situation. So instead of sending Puck to drop two drops of the potion into her eyes he does it himself and wakes her up telling her that you’ve fallen in love with an “ass”. Titania wakes up with disgust seeing that she has fallen for an “ass” and gets up with Oberon and then the conflict between the two ends making them fall in love with each other. Misfortune went from him and Titania not even close to loving each other to loving and always staying together. Misfortune just came in because of Pucks foolish prank by turning Bottom into an “ass” and making Titania fall in love with him.

To conclude misfortune is not always bad or good but it is fate that defines it. In many of these stories many characters have dealt with misfortune in a negative or positive way because of whether they deserved it or not. Misfortune isn’t a choice of whether people want it or not it is the way people use your actions that defines what their fate is. Dealing with things like
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misfortune can really change a person because as these characters they have dealt with it in a way that really changed their whole life.

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

anything.