The Book Thief Character Analysis
The “Book Thief” by Markus Zusak follows the story of a 10-year-old girl named, Liesel Meminger. The book takes place during the Holocaust of Adolf Hitler’s ruling in Germany. Throughout the story, the reader meets many courageous characters who showed true signs of courage and bravery. I believe that Hans Hubermann is the character that best illustrates courage. Hans shows a symbol of courage as he gave Max, a jew, a hideout from the Nazis.Hans also shows true sacrifice as he risked his own family’s live to save Max. He also had the courage to give a jew a piece of bread, who was on his way to a concentration camp. This led to him and the jew whipped and Hans was sent to Germany as a punishment for his actions. Hans did all these things because he was
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That leaves 10 percent. Hans Hubermann belonged to the 10 percent. There was a reason for that.” (Zusak, 63)Death foreshadows the rebellious actions that Hans does for attempting to hide a Jew. Hans was once a soldier in World War I along with Max’s father named Erik Vandenburg. a friend of Hans in the war, who was responsible for teaching Hans how to play the accordion and the reason why Hans is still alive from the war. As Hans went to deliver the letters, the rest of the crew was killed along with Erik during the War in France. Hans vowed to keep his promise by hiding Max from the Nazi. We know that Max is Erik’s song because of the second time Max speaks to Hans in the story saying, “Do you still play the accordion?”. Max uses these words to bring up Hans and Erik’s relationship with the accordion to symbolize their friendship. This was the most important moment in the book because it shows the dangers of hiding a Jew from the Nazis, but Hans still risked the dangers for Max which shows true courage because he risked his life for a
That leaves 10 percent. Hans Hubermann belonged to the 10 percent. There was a reason for that.” (Zusak, 63)Death foreshadows the rebellious actions that Hans does for attempting to hide a Jew. Hans was once a soldier in World War I along with Max’s father named Erik Vandenburg. a friend of Hans in the war, who was responsible for teaching Hans how to play the accordion and the reason why Hans is still alive from the war. As Hans went to deliver the letters, the rest of the crew was killed along with Erik during the War in France. Hans vowed to keep his promise by hiding Max from the Nazi. We know that Max is Erik’s song because of the second time Max speaks to Hans in the story saying, “Do you still play the accordion?”. Max uses these words to bring up Hans and Erik’s relationship with the accordion to symbolize their friendship. This was the most important moment in the book because it shows the dangers of hiding a Jew from the Nazis, but Hans still risked the dangers for Max which shows true courage because he risked his life for a