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    Analysis Of The Book Thief

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    The general idea for this narrative film treatment is about a trouble teenager who live in a bad and corrupt neighborhood in the inner city. He’s always in a much bigger chaotic environment. With a big ambition of knowing what he wants to become in life‚ and much productive mindset but lack the sense of parental guidance. He was going through struggles and life challenges. He found himself mingling with the wrong crowd. He bumped into an old friend that will introduce him into the life of crime and

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    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

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    Power Of Words Essay

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    it into his own story. Furthermore the power of words is conveyed throughout this book using many examples. Power manifests itself in many different ways through the novel. Power is highly manifested in the book by the rising power of Hitler‚ the power of words‚symbols in a multitude of ways. Symbols and words are a very important part of the book. That is shown in the book from the scenes of the bonfire‚ Max’s books‚ Hitler also has the most power in the book‚ besides the Germans have been brainwashed

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    villain is but rather to make a point about the protagonist of the story. Such is the case for Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief. In the book thief Zusak uses the motif of thievery to as an act of empowerment for Liesel. It is representative of how Lisel is trying to take control back of her life in a time where she feels she has lost all control of the world around her. The act of stealing books is also significant as this can represent her taking knowledge back from her oppressors who wish to destroy it

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    The Book Thief Analysis Essay Think of Germany as a heads and tails coin. The book Thief is about a girl named Liesel who lives with her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubberman. Liesel has a friend named Rudy. They both go around stealing food‚ but Liesel not only stole food‚ she stole books. Death (Narrator) was soon fond of Liesel and he then gave her the nick name The Book Thief. This novel is great to understand the other side of Germany. Unlike other stories that talk about Jews‚ concentration

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    directly translated to "being of sound". Humans are greatly influenced by words‚ whether they are spoken‚ written or even in thought. The power of words can be accurately described with a quote from Proverbs 18:21 "words kill‚ words give life; they’re either poison or fruit". In my essay‚ the various roles of words are shown‚ among which are to praise‚ manipulate‚ mislead‚ educate‚ soothe‚ bind‚ save or kill. The impact of words can either transform for good‚ for bad or sometimes from one to the other

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    The Book Thief Notable Quotes and Response 1. “… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried it’s hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.” (Pg. 497) ~Its important because it shows that she’s like a child in the big world‚ a child couldn’t turn off a tap just like she couldn’t turn off the rain and change the events that had happened. 2. “She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Liesel

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    Liesel In The Book Thief

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    plenty of tragedy throughout the book. There’s no question. Though we do not know much about her life previous to her residency at the Hubermann’s household‚ we can definitely say that she is full of misery. Her tragedies at the start and her relationships for the duration of the book taught her that there is much more to life than just sleeping‚ eating‚ and working. She learns that life is about loving not hating. Liesel does not shower at the beginning of the book for a few weeks. I see this as

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    foreign and trusting someone is probably the biggest mistake they would ever make. The lives the characters in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak have to live are full of fear that they are either going to get killed or they did something to anger the Nazi soldiers or their supreme leader. Liesel Meminger and others overcome abandonment and loss‚ learn the effective and dangerous powers of words‚ experience love and trust (some for the first time in ages)‚ and feel guilty. In the novel‚ Liesel and

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    Jones Coles AP English Lit. Comp. 21 November 2013 The Book Thief Open Response Markus Zusak‚ an award winning novelist‚ showcases the power that words can have on the environment around the world. In his novel The Book Thief‚ he shows the reader that even in a time of forlornness that words will always be one of the most 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

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