Character Analysis Of Rudy In The Book Thief

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In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Rudy Steiner undertakes a tremendous transformation from being selfish and naive to mature, empathetic and cognitive. Rudy was a skinny ten year old boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. From the outside he was a hitler youth but in the inside his idol was Jesse Owens, a black athlete, Rudy looks past all of the nazi ideals and sees no difference between himself and Jesse Owens. Through this, people perceived Rudy as a crazy kid for having those alien beliefs. In the beginning, Rudy doesn't really know what was happening around him. To show off at the Hitler youth carnival, Rudy won multiple races. To his own ignorance he drawed attention of the Nazi officials and was recruited to a special school.

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