1. I've read over 15 books 2. I read daily. 3. I picked The Book Thief.
This leads Liesel to notice the prejudice against the Jewish allowing for the reader to see the importance of good words in the novel. The second way that the importance of words in their goodness is seen when Liesel gets her last book from Ilsa. When Ilsa Hermann gives Liesel this last book the pages are empty and she tells Liesel that she should write her own book. This is justified when Ilsa says, “I thought if you do [not] want to read any more books, you might like to write one instead,” (Zusak 523). The significance of this quote is that Ilsa tells Liesel that if the words are all being used for bad and or Liesel disagrees with them, she should make her own words, writing her own book.
Many people have been hurt by other people and death. The book, The Book Thief is about Liesel Meminger and how she deals with all this hurt and death around her. This character essay is about her because I liked how resilient she was to other people’s words and all the death and destruction. I really enjoyed reading about her and her experiences especially how she dealt with her want to be able to read. Liesel was a great character and she learns many lessons throughout the book, and it was fun to learn them with her.
Part of growing up is living up to responsibilities and mature, throughout the book people will see the differences many characters changed from beginning to end like Liesel and Rudy. Growing up is something that any individual person goes through in life, people start getting more mature and start having more responsibilities for themselves or for people around them . Liesel was just a little girl who lost her mother and her brother on the same day, she was adopted by the Hubermann’s, but she didn’t know what to expect. She did chores for her mother by going to house and house and do laundry and then bring the money directly to her mother,
The Book Thief was an excellent film displaying Nazi Germany, leading up to and the beginning of the war. A character, Liesel, was adopted to new parents because her birth parents are killed for being communists and speaking out against Hitler. She went to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann, on Himmel street. There, she has a shaky start, but meets many friends, including Rudy, and a Jewish man named Max. Liesel feels especially close her new parents, Hans and Rosa, but is more drawn and feels a special connection to Hans.
Reading the book, I learned a few things about each character and about Hitler’s regime. Many Germans did not agree with Hitler’s order but still follow because they did not want to get killed. Liesel was a young innocent girl who was given up by her mother because she could not take care of her. She is brought to Himmel street where she will live there with her new family. The connection that I found between the readings and The Book Thief is social class.
Liesel, known as the book thief to the audience has a distinct passion for books and how much they mean to her. Stealing book after the book becomes a hobby for the young girl whose love of books is fostered by her foster father, Hans Hubermann. As Hans teaches Liesel how to read and write they develop an
An important role model in Liesel’s life is Ilsa Hermann. After seeing Liesel steal a book at the book burning, she gives her the ‘window of opportunity’ (Zusak, pg. 155) inviting her into her library and sharing her own love of books with Liesel. The reader eventually learns that Ilsa is still mourning the loss of her own son many years before. Ilsa takes Liesel into her care after the tragedy of the bombing raids that results in the death of Hans and Rosa leaving Liesel traumatised and
Growing as a Character Every event in our lives happens for a reason, whether it is to learn from our mistakes or to gain experience from them. In Markus Zusak's novel “The Book Thief,” Liesel Meminger uses her experiences with living in the 1940s to learn life lessons and experience first hand the many terrible things Hitler is doing to people around her. She learns how to deal with the many obstacles that are thrown at her. Liesel grows as a character by following her step-father’s footsteps in being a kind and generous person, going through childhood with her best friend Rudy, and being aware of what is going on around her by learning from Max.
Change is an inevitable aspect of life; however the most significant changes occur when an individual develops a sought after skill or learns imperative information. In the novel The Book Thief the novel’s main protagonist Liesel Meminger encounters numerous moments which help define her characterization as she grows as a character. Firstly one of Liesel’s most poignant moments occurs once she pieces together her vague past and during the same process discovers her reason for loathing Hitler. When Liesel heard the word communist being mentioned in a negative connotation at the book burning, she became stricken with fear as this word was all she knew of her past life. Liesel’s desire for answers on her Mother’s disappearance leads to her asking Hans if Hitler was one
Through the pain and losses in her family, she begins to get motivated and is able to stick up for herself and others for what she feels is right. (Her father was killed because he felt communism was right). As Liesel grows up, she begins to re-evaluate her life, and creates a set of moral rules for herself instead of what society dictated for her. Liesel then begins to understand that her mouth (language) could be a blessing and a curse, and living under the control of the Nazi’s it changes her views on life. After books she reads, writes and steals, she learns more about herself, she evolves from a “powerless” character to a powerful character who can change the lives of many.
At first, Liesel is illiterate, but when she steals her first book at her brother’s funeral, and is abandoned by her mother, she turns to something she
One of the most important recurring themes throughout The Book Thief was Liesel’s relationships with all of the people in her life. She grows close with several different people, and trusts, loves, and cares for them all differently but equally. Three of those relationships will be explored more deeply; Liesel’s relationship with her foster father, Hans Hubermann, the Jewish man her family takes in, Max Vanderburg, and her best friend, Rudy Steiner. Liesel’s relationship with Hans is one of the most important, if not the most important, relationships in the novel. Hans is the first person Liesel trusts, and the person who stays with her and loves her until the end.
A 2015 study by Entertainment Software Association (ESA) showed that 42% of Americans play video games at least three hours a week. The ever increasing popularity of video games begs the question of how it forms people’s perceptions about the real world. A particular area that garnered a lot of attention in the last few years is the gender representation, specifically objectification of women in video games. There is more than one way of objectifying women in video games, from hypersexualizing women to portraying them as damsels in distress. This inaccurate representation of women in video games can have a negative effect on anyone who plays them and game developers should take note of the role they play in shaping people’s perceptions and
The Book Thief. MZ, 2005, p. 301. ). The author of The Book Thief , Markus Zusak demonstrates the idea that a person's survival or life may strongly depend on the power of words. In The Book Thief we learn that words have a lot of power, not only do we but throughout the story unfold Liesel also learns that also.
