Internal Conflict In The Book Thief

“Conflict” is the struggle between opposing forces. There is internal conflict - There is internal conflict – where you are wrestling in your own mind with an issue, and there is external conflict - such as man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. society.
Examples of internal conflict in The book Thief are when Liesel struggled to decide whether or not to steal from Ilsa Hermann. “Could she truly carry out what she was thinking? Could she really seek revenge on a person like this? Could she despise someone this much?” Another one is when she has nightmares about her brother Warner. “Every night, Liesel would nightmare. Her brother’s face. Staring at the floor. She would wake up swimming in her bed, screaming, and drowning in the flood of sheets.” This haunts her. When she was
Could you read it for me?” He laughed—a ten-year-old, smugness laughter. “You Dummkopf—you idiot.”” When Liesel was at school, Ludwig Schmeikl made fun of her, but eventually he apologized. The conflict between Rosa Hubermann and Frau Holtzapfel, that Frau Holtzapfel spits at Rosa’s door every time she passes. The time when Liesel tried to save a book from being burnt in the bonfire, but when she took it, “The book was starting to burn her. It seemed to be igniting.” The time Max was freezing at times and got eventually went in a coma, the conflict was man vs. nature. One of the man vs. society conflict is that Liesel don’t like Hitler because she know he has to do with her father, her mother’s disappearance, and her brother’s death. This makes her go against the 90% of the society. “The word communist + a large bonfire + a collection of dead letters + the suffering of her mother + the death of her brother = the Führer.” So at Hitler Youth, she has to pretend to follow Hitler or she would get punished. All these moments of conflict help make the story interesting because without it, the plot would be flat, boring, and it