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Hans Hubermann's Search For Justice In The Book Thief

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The “search for justice” is a journey that everyone has in life. The person who has the most conflict on their journey is Hans Hubermann’s in The Book Thief. He battles between what he thinks is just and what the society he lives within thinks is just. Living in Nazi Germany, helping a Jew or hurting a Jew is what separated you from the rest of society, and there was not an in between. Hans Hubermann’s search for justice was successful because he understood that being a follower and not standing up for the Jews, would be an injustice.
Hans search started when he was enlisted into the first World War. During the war, he befriends a man, who also saves his life, Erik Vandenburg. Erik was Hans’s first example of how justices in the world should
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