“Friendship, a complex idea filled with unimaginable potential, waiting to be awakened by two great people.” Now why should people peruse a friendship with a person?” People strive for friendships because friendships are bonds. It is a bond among two people who endure hardships and enjoy memorable moments together. “The Book Thief” by Mark Zusak displays a friendship of two characters named Rudy and Liesel along with how their friendship matures over the course of time. The book demonstrates how they are like lovers, siblings, and how their adventures brings them closer.
In the book, the friendship is more of Rudy in love with Liesel, but Liesel was filled with sisterly love for him. As time began to pass Liesel began to accept Rudy not only as a friend but also as a person she liked to have around. A person to listen to her whenever she was feeling down. To truly understand a friendship you must first try to understand what a friendship is. A great friendship is when two people have endured hardships together and enjoy bliss together without leaving each other’s side. Even though Rudy was in love with Liesel, he began to get over his feelings and began to treat her like a sibling. With the combination of these two factors: love and sibling love they built a strong friendship. They went through so
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As a result, they know each other very well, like a brother and sister do. They know each other’s weaknesses and strengths. They get in trouble together but also get each other out of trouble too. “Siblings are people we share moments with, the people who teach us about fairness, cooperation, and unconditional love through every hardship we face.”-Pamela Dugale. This is what Rudy and Liesel possessed unconditional sibling love and that’s what help them grow closer and push through the struggles that faced
Friendship is a necessity throughout life whether it is during elementary school or during adulthood. Some friendships may last a while and some may last for a year; it depends on the strength of the bond and trust between the two people. In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the main characters, Gene and Finny, did not have a pure friendship because it was driven by envy and jealousy, they did not feel the same way towards each other and they did not accurately understand each other.
One of the most memorable friendships of the early 2000s is portrayed in the movie Napoleon Dynamite. When the two main characters Napoleon and Pedro meet, they become fast friends. Napoleon and Pedro stay loyal to each other throughout the entire movie, despite what others might think. This is similar to how John Steinbeck portrays friendship in his novella Of Mice and Men. The friendship between the main characters of the novella, George and Lennie, is unexpected. They choose to stand by each other regardless of society’s expectations. Through this, Steinbeck communicates the theme that a loyal friend can be a haven in a heartless world.
Friendship is an unbreakable bond between two people and contains loyalty and love. In the story Chains, Isabel finds herself in grand friendships that play throughout the story. She showed how devoted she was towards Lady Lockton, Curzon, and Ruth by being there for them during tough times. In the end, friendship is the light through the darkness, powerful and important.
Even though they are brother and sister and grew up together, they are two people with
A friendship is a special relationship between peoples , It occurs between friend that care about each other. In talking about friendship , the novella from John Steinbeck “Of Mice and Men”. Two friends George and Lennie ,they are trying to find a job together to complete their dream of having a farm. But Lennie is an adult size with a child's mind, he gets in trouble a lot and as his friend, George helping him solve the problem and taking care of Lennie. Later George and Lennie finds a new job , but George lies to the boss about the problem that Lennie has.
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.
Liesel and Rudy's relationship changes as the both of them mature and grow up. They grew up playing soccer on the street and then found satisfaction in stealing things with each other. One thing that never really changed was Rudy's persistence. Throughout the novel, Rudy continuously asks "How about a kiss, Saumensch?" Being completely upfront with his feelings. Liesel starts out only seeing Rudy as her best friend and nothing more. Through the course of the novel, she starts realizing that she has feelings for Rudy, but refuses to show it. She completely denies her feelings and I think it is due to all of the abandonment she faced in her life. She was probably afraid of getting hurt. Death says, " the only thing worse than a boy who hates you [is] a boy who loves you" (Zusak 52). This statement is true. A boy that hates you can easily be hated in return. A boy that loves you and is persistent like Rudy was, makes it hard to push the boy away and makes it hard on the girl to avoid or reject his feelings. Rudy loved Liesel for what she was and everything she was. I honestly think that the formation of Liesel's was inevitable. I think that Liesel told Mr, Stiener that she kissed Rudy's corpse because she wanted him to know that there was closure and that Rudy was loved. Death even stated that "it embarrassed her, but she thought he might have liked to know" (Zusak
In the novel The Book Thief, setting and point of view affect the theme and book a lot. The point of view of this novel is third person omniscient and a little bit of second and first person when the narrator talks about himself or to the reader. The setting of the story is Nazi Germany and it is based on a young girl named Liesel Meminger and what her life was like during this time. Her story is told by the narrator, death. Mark Zusak, the author, uses setting and point of view to express the theme of the novel because there was so much death happening, Liesel encountered him so many times, causing him to be able to tell her story; without this setting and the narrator, the theme story would have been different.
On page 64, the text says ¨A patch of silence stood among them now. The man, the girl, the book. He picked it up and spoke soft as cotton.¨ This was the start of Liesel’s passion for books. She and her foster father would read and read investing and spending time with one another. Soon, their bond would be unbreakable, from reading together at night, to Hans teaching Liesel to pronounce words on sandpaper. These actions are evident to the words connecting her to her foster father. Sure, Hans has to play the role as a father since he accepts the responsibility but Hans and Liesel’s bond is stronger than a regular father bond. Hans makes sacrifices for Liesel, investing his time with her from reading to her, teaching her and even sacrifices his possessions in order to make Liesel happy. Liesel never really knew her father before and now, her new foster, Hans, is an adequate figure to be confirmed as Liesel’s father. And the words don’t stop there. Liesel was also able to form a relationship with the mayor’s wife, Ilsa Hermann. Both Liesel and Ilsa appreciate each other’s presence in which Liesel appreciates that Ilsa lets her enter her library and Liesel provides company for Ilsa due to the unfortunate absence of her sons. Lastly, another relationship mended by words is between Liesel and Max Vanderburg, a
While many obstacles get in the way of friendship, true friendship still lives, even in silence. In the book, The Chosen , By Chaim Potok, two boys, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, who are very religiously different and both raised in completely opposite ways, develops a deep friendship. Their friendship opens up their worldview to many other different viewpoints in life. The friendship between these two boys is one with great religious significance, starting off with destiny and Gods will. As Danny and Reuven’s Friendship develops, it teaches them to respond wisely to the values of the more complex and secular world. It also teaches the true value of friendship. Because Danny’s father, Reb Saunders, raised Danny in silence, Danny and Reuven’s relationship was also a way that Reb Saunders could talk to his son, through Reuven. There friendship grows and they become closer and closer.
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...
Zusak uses his characters and their experiences to demonstrate the theme of the beauty and brutality of human nature in the novel. First, Zusak uses his character, Rudy, to support his theme of the brutality and beauty of human nature. Rudy’s brutality is revealed in a certain moment when he devises a plan to steal food from the priest by causing the delivery boy to wreck on the way to the priest’s house. Rudy’s beauty is also displayed in many things he does for Liesel, such as jumping in the ice-cold river for her book.
In conclusion, co-dependency and rivalry is very common in the world today. Though it is not a big issue out in the open, it is an emotional attachment that only one can define. In this short story the two main aspects of having siblings is the theme which revolves around codependency and rivalry. Having siblings is a part of everyday life and problems do occur which sometimes makes a person, or changes a person in ways. In this situation, Pete and Donald are completely different people but they are in fact very dependent upon one another.
“We are cousins, very distant ones, and we have lived together - well, as long as I can remember . . . We are each other’s best friend” (64). Even though they might not have been anywhere near the same age, they developed a strong relationship because they were two people who found commonalities within one another. Once you have been through everything with someone, they understand you better than anyone else. This suggests to the reader, that once his cousin started to take care of him, he felt that someone had truly cared about him and truly loved him.