The Book Thief Quotes Analysis

Quotation 1: Yes, the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. ‘I will never fire a gun,’ he devised. ‘I will not have to.’ … His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible. He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany … It was a nation of farmed thoughts.” (Zusak 451)
Speaker: The speaker of the quotation is Max Vandenburg.
Context: In Germany, where Hitler rules, the Huberman’s have adopted a nine-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger. Due to Hitler’s ant-Semitism campaigns, Max Vandenburg had gone for help to the Huberman’s to avoid discrimination and torture in camps, where the Jews were put in. Max felt he had caused the Huberman’s
When everyone starts to hear Liesel, read the Whistler out loud, everyone starts to calm down .The children in the basement stop crying, the basement is in silent, and Liesel continues to read. She does not stop reading, as her voice soothes them, and as well as she does not wish to see the scared faces hanging on her words. Therefore, proving my claim that literature, words are the greatest weapon of all, that have the ability to make a situation right. Furthermore, this quotation displays that although Liesel was reading for herself, for her benefit, in the beginning, she now begins to realize that words also indeed have the power to manipulate a person to help them. She soothes the neighbors in the basement by reading out a story, and for the first time, she learns that words can be used to do good as well. Even though Hitler used the words to negatively manipulate people, Liesel uses them for good purposes. Liesel continues to read, as she realizes that people hearing the Whistler, have made them forgot about their worries. The reason everyone quiets down to hear her story is because her voices caried away their foreboding worries of being killed by the bomb. Liesel’s actions of using the words positively emphasize how a good hearted person she is. This quote is important to the plot, as it makes the character of book thief realize a very important thing. Hitler used the power of words to manipulate people for his own use/benefit, while she used the power of words for other’s benefit. In addition, The Hitler used the power of words to make people agitated and wrathful, while she used it to soothe and pacify others. Once again, proven that literature is a great weapon as it had helped the citizens survive in the basement during the times of horrors. In addition, this