Book Thief is in a ‘twisted world’, it’s about a young girl, Liesel is orphan who is given new adoptive parents during WWII. Liesel befriends a young boy, Rudy who falls in love with her.
She finds comfort in borrowing books and reading them, her adoptive parents then take in and hide a Jewish in their basement.
The reality of the world in WWII, distorted minds living then in Germany, Liesel didn’t realize that Hitler, their Fuhrer, was behind all of this, the issue of propaganda. Kids were taught what was wrong was right, were brainwashed. QUOTE But later throughout the movie, Liesel realized what Hitler intentions were, after they took a Jew into their basement.
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I was also interested in the character of Liesel,
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Just her love for what is right.
Another bit of Liesel emotions that I was interested was the book thief words give Liesel life yet Hitlers words bring death. Like words have a lot of power, to lift people up yet the power to destroy and crumble people. Rudy “ You’re stealing books ! Why ?,” Liesel “ When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back”. ??????????
It also shows, the braveness of Liesel and her new family developing throughout the movie as they took a Jew into their basement, even though they knew the consequences of what could happen if they were caught. QUOTE, I think it would take a lot of courage to hide him and keep the promise that Hans made to Max’s Dad who saved Hans life in WWI,
Also the sense of relationships in the book thief, I felt that was important to the movie, it shows/helps characters developing. Like the relationship of Rudy and Liesel felt to me like it was a safe haven for both of them. Also showed as they got closer to each other Rudy, “
Goodnight Book Thief”, Liesel “Goodnight Fish”. Likewise the relationship between Hans
The book had so much power to it. One day, on Himmel street, the town had to get out and go to the shelter. All of the people who lived on Himmel Street were scared because there was a chance their street could get blown up by a bomb. Courageous Liesel pulled out the book, The Whistler. Liesel was sitting in the shelter and started to read the book out loud. “By page three, everyone was silent but Liesel” (Zusask 381) Liesel trapped all of the people's nervous and scared selfs to herself calm voice. The book was a power of silence. The common theme that connects the book Liesel has stolen is that the each book tell a chunk of her
Throughout the novel Liesel reaches new highs and new lows, overcoming her fears and succumbing to her anger. Liesel's sudden outburst at Ilsa Hermann after Ilsa asking to stop the laundry services caused her to finally accept her brother's death and even helped Ilsa accept her son's death as well. Ilsa's guilt consumed her and caused her to become a house ridden woman overcome by her grief while Liesel overcame her guilt and grief by learning how to read and write not allowing them to overcome her. "“It’s about time,” she [Liesel] informed her, “that you do your own stinking washing anyway. It’s about time you faced the fact that your son is dead. He got killed! He got strangled and cut up more than twenty years ago! Or did he freeze to death? Either way, he’s dead! He’s dead and it’s pathetic that you sit here shivering in your own house to suffer for it. You think you’re the only one?” Immediately. Her brother was next to her. He whispered for her to stop, but he, too, was dead, and not worth listening to. He died in a train. They buried him in the snow. […] “This book,” she went on. She shoved the boy down the steps, making him fall. “I don’t want it.” The words were quieter now, but still just as hot. She threw The Whistler at the woman’s slippered feet, hearing the clack of it as it landed on the cement. “I don’t want your miserable book. ”[…] her brother holding his
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.
It is natural to begin to see ideas like propaganda in the past, as we cannot imagine something as devastating as the annihilation of over seven million lives occurring in our society again. Despite this, we need to remember the significance propaganda can lead on our minds. We encounter a whole range of propaganda techniques everyday from the news channels and television commercials playing in the background constantly to posters hung around our schools and neighborhoods serving some sort of message. Although these examples do not hold half the weight of Nazi Propaganda, they have the ability to. The common phrase, “History repeats itself”, can cause our world a lot of pain if we lose sight of acknowledging the power
Liesel’s mom leaves her with foster parents because she wishes to protect her from the fate she is enduring. The words Paula, Liesel’s mom, uses go against Hitler which resulted in her being taken away and Liesel to lose her mother and experience the loss of her. This shows Liesel experiences unhappiness because of the words her mother uses and Liesel’s misunderstanding of her mother's actions.
Finding beauty in ugly situations was a theme that was very key in the development of the Book Thief. This can be seen many times in the text and really brings the whole story together. Keeping a positive attitude in a bad situation and finding the good things is what keeps Liesel’s happiness. She may not have the best life yet she has a very positive outlook on life. It doesn’t matter the situation, you can always find happiness.
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.
The people (Germans) that lived during the war were credulous about what Hitler said therefore their life turned out to be a debacle. Hitler used words to deceive and outsmart the others. He used words to make the Jews think a
Books and other written works have been around since the first century. Written in different formats and telling unique stories, each book has helped someone learn or has given someone hope for the future. In The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger, a nine year old girl who has just been dropped off at her foster parents home, is at loss for words and cannot read nor write. Liesel understands that there is a great power in words and a certain hunger starts to grow in her to hold these words in her hands. This earns her the title book thief. After just witnessing the loss of her younger brother and her birth mother abandoning her, she starts to form an important relationship with books, each stolen book having to do with an important event in her life.
The book shows this theme by displaying the ways that words have changed Liesel's life. This has been both positive and negative. In a positive way, words have given Liesel knowledge. At the beginning of the book Liesel is illiterate, but not long after her discovery of The Grave Digger’s Handbook she learns to read These words allow Liesel to look at the world in a whole new light. However as she becomes more intellectual, she begins to realize the negative ways in which words have power. We start to see this transition on page 115, “‘Is my mother a communist?’ Staring. Straight ahead. ‘They were always asking her things, before I came here.’ Hans edged forward a little, forming the beginnings of a lie. ‘I have no idea - I never met her.’ ‘Did the Führer taker her away?’” In this quote, Liesel begins to realize the problems that Hitler cause and that his words and propaganda are the source to Liesel’s struggles. Both the book and movie display this theme, however the book emphasizes the positive ways that words are power more so than the movie does. The movie puts a greater emphasis on how words can control people in a negative aspect more than a positive aspect. This is a key difference between the book and
First off Liesel lost her brother who was basically her best friend. Not only did her brother Werner die which is suffering enough for a young girl, she was the one to find him dead. That image will always be there in the back of her mind, and she will never be able to get passed that. Throughout the novel Liesel is still reminded of this event on a regular basis especially in her dreams, “Every night, Liesel would nightmare. Her brother’s face. Staring at the floor”(Zusak 36). The dreams moved her suffering from the outside world into her sleep which is usually a person’s escape from the world and their problems. One could imagine and hope Liesel would not have to experience anything else like losing her brother but their imagination will deceive them. During a Parade of Jews going through Molching Hans, Liesel’s foster father throws a piece of bread to a straggling Jew. This action is obviously a huge no in the Nazi book. As a result Hans is whipped for being a ‘Jew Lover’. Han’s knew this action had compromised his current situation of hiding Max; a Jew in their basement. (QUOTE). Max knew as well, Hans is now a target in the party’s eyes and he must leave, this is the moment when Liesel experiences more loss, “He could not see the figure in the kitchen window, but she could see him” (Zusak 397). Losing once again another person in her life that was important to her, caused Liesel to once
“I saw the book thief three times” (Zusak 5). This quote shows the theme death is inevitable which overtakes Liesel’s life, the main character in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, because the narrator of the story is Death. He basically says that Liesel will be around the death of three different people and this is how Death finds her story. Liesel's story begins in a tragic way. On the way to her new home, Liesel shockingly loses her brother. She is now forced to cope with death. Given Liesel's series of unfortunate events, she has to learn how to cope with now learning that death is inevitable. The Book Thief is a 550 page novel that later became a major motion picture which takes place in Molching, Germany during World War II when the Nazi’s
In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger was nine when her brother died, then less than twenty-four hours later her mother was gone. Liesel has gone through more hardships in her youth than most people have gone through in their entire life. Throughout her life she has had an ever changing personality and is a very dynamic person. She has stolen books and the heart of a neighbor boy. Liesel is a memorable character and has a important story to tell about Germany and the life of her and her family.
The first book Liesel steals when her brother passed away, is a symbol of her mother and brother, giving her a sense of safety and allowing for a more comfortable survival in her new home. When she starts reading the book, the words give her a sense of relaxation and make her want to read more. “The point is, it didn't matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was really more important” (38). This is very important because this is when Liesel starts to realize how much she loves books and when she starts to use her words powerfully. Also, words not only comforted Liesel but they also comfort everyone in the air raid shelter. During a life or death situation, words help ease her existence. “...soon a quietness started bleeding through the crowded basement. By page three, everyone was silent but Liesel...the youngest kids were soothed by her voice”(381). During the times in the air raid shelter, everyone is extremely scared. Bombs are being dropped very close to them and everyone is in a panic state of mind. When Liesel reads to them, it calms everyone down and helps people relax. This just shows how powerful words are even in the worst times. Lastly , Liesel is the only one to survive the unexpected bombing that happened when most people were asleep, but words had literally saved her life. “She survived because she was sitting in the
The amount of character growth and development is something that I really appreciate in any form of storytelling, but I especially thought that is was important in this