The novel City of thieves, written by Davis Benioff. He narrates how Lev and Kolya broke their country’s law and got the punishment they least expected, which serves as a bail out and it later turns out to be a greater good for Lev. It is only profitable to break certain social codes like stealing and killing for survival during the wartimes because it can lead to honor and safety of others. During war time, the length someone need to survive can result in that person’s losing what made them human in the first place because people do what they never thought they can do, and their only hope to survive is today, as they are not sure if they will live to see tomorrow. Some people can become “cannibals” the eating of other human being in order …show more content…
Lev has that innocent face that cannot hurt a fly but unknowing to the general, Lev was playing with his head so he can get what he want in order to be free from prison. kolya told Lev to play ‘’a game of Restopchin’’.{165}. With general Abendroth which means a game of chess that if Lev won the game, the general would give them a dozen of eggs and set them free but their initial plan was to kill General Abendroth. He later agreed to the deal, and finally he killed General Abendroth and his other Germany soldiers and stole his eggs because Killing the general was the only way for Lev to survived and not be killed. Most time it is preferable to kill your enemies first, before they get to you. The boldness and intelligence of Lev and Kolya grant them the freedom to live because without breaking the social codes in war period how can someone survive to witness a new beginning after war, but at the end Kolya could not make it to receive his freedom because he was shot mistakenly by the Russian soldiers, and died on their way to the hospital. while Lev delivered the eggs and was honored and giving the office of a typist for the red star military newspaper because he was able to accomplish the task set before
What is friendship? Friendship is the key to getting through tough times in life. It’s not just being for your friend when it is easy, it is being there for your friend when something traumatic is happening. In The Book Thief, Liesel meets many new friends along the way including Ilsa, Max, Rudy, Hans and Rosa. Also in The Book Thief Max also meets new friends along the way including Hans, Rosa, Liesel and Walter Kugler. Characters in The Book Thief show that friendship is the key to getting through tough times in life.
Lina Vilkas is a fifteen year old girl who is the protagonist of this story. She was taken, by the NKVD, from her house with her mother and brother to exile. Later in the story she meets Andrius and falls in love with him. She marries him after the war while moving from place to place. Andrius uses his misfortune as a fortune to help others. He takes care of Lina and her family as best he can. Nikolai Kretzsky is a young NKVD officer who helps Lina and her mother even after Lina insulted him. Mr Stalas is a Jew who is deported with the other people. He wanted to die with dignity. He is often referred to as The Bald Man. He confesses that he was liable for the deportation. Janina is a starry-eyed young girl who likes to help others and to talk to her "dead" doll. When few selected people are brought to the North Pole for more suffering, dozens of people die from cholera and pneumonia. Lina however, survives and manages to save Jonas and Janina with the help of Nikolai Kretzsky.
Has your skin ever tasted the scorching coldness to the point of actually flavoring death, has your stomach ever craved for even a gram of anything that can keep you alive, has your deep-down core ever been so disturbed by profound fear? No never, because the deep-freeze, starvation, and horror that Kolya and Lev experienced were far worse to the point of trauma. In the novel, City Of Thieves, author David Benioff describes the devastating and surreal situations and emotions that occurred to Benioff’s grandfather, Lev and Lev’s friend, Kolya, during WWII the Siege of Leningrad in Leningrad, Russia. Both Lev and Kolya share some similarities such as their knowledge of literature; even so, they are very contrastive individuals who oppose
An individual's morals are rooted in their personal views which may be contradictory to the principles manifested by society. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, characters living on Himmel Street who neglect Nazi ideology experience love for each other and humanity, thereby living a contented life in harsh conditions. The different types of love which individuals on Himmel Street encounter from refusing to obey societal ideologies and expectations is formed by supporting those in need and developing relationships with those that society has degraded.
“The Palace Thief” by Ethan Canin, shows Hundert a moral person from a boarding school named St.Benedict, and taught students with different backgrounds, including 3 generation of Senator’s sons, but when one of the Senator’s sons named Sedgewick, caused Hundert to be a person who praised himself by saying ‘he did this or he became this because of me’. However, in reality, Sedgewick stole his spotlight from the reunion to Hundert going back to his landowner. “The Palace Thief” was a story about never losing one’s own morals, because it is the power to do the righteous.
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 doctor’s wife When the doctor is sent away, his wife fakes the disease to follow him to the asylum. Being the only known eyewitness after the epidemic hits, the doctor’s wife soon becomes the leader of their ward group. Due to the complex circumstances they are in, she gains a strong sense of responsibility and helps the others in any way she can. She serves their needs as well as trying to maintain some stability in the ward. She is however unable to prevent the deterioration of humanity that quickly begins to happen once everyone is isolated from the world.
A strong bond of friendship will last forever. The story of leningrad was a horrible period of time, when Germans surrounded Leningrad, and prevented any food supplies from reaching into the city, so Russians have a lot of heroic stories about that time how people managed to survive without getting killed. This relates toThe City of Thieves by David Benioff who uses a blend of accurate historical evidence and slight exaggeration to tell his story. This blend does not negatively affect the reader, but is rather effective in bringing the reader into the story on a more personal level on which he wrote about this two protagonist character. Lev Beniov is the protagonist of the story, whom the story begins with. His personality
German citizens had to endure a challenging lifestyle, presented by Adolf Hitler, of fascism, the holocaust, Jewish laws and propaganda during World War II. From 1939-1942, Nazi Germany affected the lives of Jews, Gypsies, Slavic people, and other groups living in Germany by getting rid of the undesirables, known as the Holocaust. Only Germans with the look of blond hair and blue eyes were even considered to live, only if he or she had no defects or disabilities, anyone else was sent to and killed in concentration camps. The Book Thief takes place in a town near Munich, Germany during this time of the holocaust. The novel focuses on the lives of the people and how they cope and deal with the immediate effects of WWII. It emphasizes the danger of hiding a Jew in a family’s basement, and how they are constantly paranoid of being caught.
In The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis, the author discusses corruption and the effects of corruption on Africans living under the resource curse, or Dutch disease. He also talks about a system responsible for the looting of Africa’s natural resources to benefit individuals and companies from Chinese, French, American, Brazilian, British, Israeli, and African elites. Burgis suffered from PTSD, which stemmed from the aftermath of the Jos massacre and other events he experienced in Africa. To cope with his PTSD, Burgis wrote down what he saw during his research, experiencing tremendous guilt in the process. Instead of his initial reasoning that the Jos massacre occurred due to “ethnic rivalries”, he started to see the real reason and how the massacre
Lev’s victory over Abendroth after the chess game marks the point at which Lev learns what it takes to be mature. Up until the moment when he kills Abendroth, Lev has never had the courage to act. When he is put in moment of decision, “[He] had acted, against all expectation, against [his] own history of cowardice…[he] had shown a bit of courage” (Benioff
We watch death explore the beauty and ugliness of the human race in Markus Zusak’s book The Book Thief. We watch as Liesel, Hans, and Rosa do everything they can to help out a group of people who were treated with such disrespect during this time period. This group, the Jews, were beaten for taking food that was given to them, and when they died no one would even care. But, these few people gave them food, a place to hide, a sense of belonging, and and a reason to live. They have to work day and night, and do everything they can. Even though people aren’t so beautiful at all times, there is still hope. As we have learned in this book that even when 99 percent of humans aren’t so marvelous there is still that one percent that is to delightful that it would touch anyones heart.
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.
Mission San Antonio de Valero was founded in 1718 by Fray Antonio de Olivares. Olivares arrived in the San Antonio area in that year with Native American converts from Mission San Francisco Solano near San Juan Bautista on the Rio Grande. The mission was originally established along the banks of San Pedro Creek but was soon relocated to the east bank of the San Antonio River. In 1803, a company of Spanish soldiers known as the Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras arrived in San Antonio from Alamo del Parras, Coahuila, Mexico. They moved into the Alamo compound, and many historians think they gave the complex its current name.
What lengths should one go to in order to survive? This is a question which has challenged the human race for generations and to which no satisfactory answer exists. In the modern world, this issue is examined theoretically, but rarely confronts individuals, with the exception of the most destitute. However, in harsh environments and forbidding territories, this matter becomes very real and pressing. Nature pays no attention to the arbitrary emotions of man, demanding only the forfeiture of the sorrowfully short life granted to him. Many would argue that in order to delay the inevitable conclusion awaiting every man, humans must act upon their primal intuition rather than their emotions. Jack London’s “The Law of Life” includes this naturalistic viewpoint that human survival instinct drives individuals more than feelings or compassion. London shows this through his protagonist Old Koshkoosh’s past experiences and tribal upbringing, his view on life, and the actions of his family members.