I’ll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.” (307) It’s something to mourn over‚ but you eventually come to terms with it and remember the people for who they were and not for what happened to them. In the end‚ this message helps Liesel cope and grow‚ and the readers learn from this as well. Because we are aware of the deaths to come‚ it doesn’t become a tragedy like in the movie. It was something that was sad‚ but you remembered the story for the characters and not for the sorrow
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Liesel is an orphan along with her brother who are going to a small German town to be with their new foster parents. Her younger brother dies on the trip there‚ due to suspicious circumstances and illness. They bury him in the cold winter snow and while they are burying him one the workers drop a book and she picks it up. The book is called “The Grave Digger’s Handbook”‚ but she does not know this because she was never taught to read. The book is the only memory of her brother she has. In a way
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All throughout her life Liesel faced a mountain that she had to overcome. When her brother died and her mother walked out on her‚ Liesel was faced fighting and overcoming abandonment. She did not have to fight by herself for long because she soon picked up partners that helped her along the way. Even though the journey was rough she reached the point where the battle was over and she could live happily. In the very beginning of the book Liesel is already faced with the challenge
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Thief by Markus Zusak‚ Liesel shows similarities to her foster father‚ Hans Hubermann. As a result‚ their similarities help them connect to each other. One night‚ Hans finds a book Liesel was hiding‚ and he asks her “‘Do you want to read it?’” (64). When Liesel says that she does‚ he says “‘To tell you the truth‚ I am not such a good reader myself.’” (65). Despite this‚ they both persevere and read the book showing they both have a love of learning. Hans Hubermann and Liesel both exhibit caring
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powerful weapons that the human race can ever hope to gain. In the book Liesel Meminger‚ a German girl‚ is on her way to the small town of Molching‚ Germany‚ near Munich‚ to meet her future foster parents‚ Hans and Rosa Hubermann. Liesel soon learns the true power of the written word; the power to destroy society‚ while at the same time‚ the power of having a calming influence on people. At the beginning of the book‚ Liesel cannot read or write. However‚ when she does learn to read‚ she is able
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and also has the ability to bring society close with love‚ and happiness. The power of words is use to establish that in relationship‚ often times words heal the heart‚ but can also destroy it. Words have the ability to destroy the soul. As for Liesel‚ she learnt how to read and understand‚ and also did researches on the words which made her
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complains about the constant workloads that war puts on his shoulders. Further more‚ there is even a part in the book where death indicates that he is loyal to Hitler’s causes since he took up hundreds and thousands of lives. Death attempts to resist Liesel because his hands are full. However he is unable to get away from her tragic life story‚ as she gives to her family and friends‚ and her interest in books. The ugly and beautiful thing about the characters is the war surrounded by humans is ugly and
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January 1939‚ Liesel Meminger is 9 years old. Liesel Meminger (the book thief)‚ and her brother are traveling with their mother by train to Himmel ("Heaven") Street in the small town of Molching‚ where Liesel and her brother going to live with foster parents‚ Rosa Hubermann and her husband Hans Hubermann. Her father was a communist. Werner (her brother) dies‚ and Death (the narattor) takes his spirit. Two days later‚ Liesel’s brother is buried by two gravediggers. Liesel steals a black
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2. FOCUS: CHARACTER – Both Liesel and Max’s identities were transformed by the sense of belonging that they both came to feel in their adopted homes. Both were displaced people‚ foreigners in their own country‚ their identities and their family heritage cruelly snatched from them due to political circumstances. Discuss this statement. Australian author Markus Zusak wrote the bildungsroman‚ The Book Thief. Narrated by Death the novel is set within Nazi Germany‚ in the small town of Molching. It
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relationship between children. The Book Thief focuses on the relationship between Liesel and Rudy‚ two of the characters. In The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas the relationship that is focused on is between Bruno and Shmuel. The following paragraphs discuss the similar situations‚ and themes that connect the two relationships together. The Book Thief was written by Australia writer Markus Zusak in 2005. The novel focuses on Liesel‚ a 12 year old girl and her family who are living in Germany during and post
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