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Rudy's Character Rudy In Since The Book Thief

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Since The Book Thief is a historical fiction text, the fictitious characters interact in a realistic WWII setting in Germany. Three characters in the book, A, B, and C develop their identities within the parameters of the Nazi controlled society. However, if A, B, and C were characters in today's society, their lives would be different.

The time of the Book thief we learn and got description upon the characters so we chose 3 characters that we feel more inserted in them. One, of the characters was Rudy about his personality is he can be rude but he is very helpful and full of brave, he looks well he is a young boy about the age of 10 , he has blue eyes and blonde hair.The next character is Max his personality is he kind very wise and his thoughts can go on forever with questions of the world, his looks is he is a young men about the age 18 or 19, tall , with brown hair and with a kind smile.The last person is leseil her personality is a lot to take in she is brave, very noises , she can be kind when she wants to be, her looks are she young girl around the age of 10, she blonde with blue eyes. …show more content…

The way the community and the time affected Max was that he is a jew to which they were hated and shame so they had to be hided but they have found them but he the only one left to which his mother stayed behind, now to which he has go threw so much just stay hided.The time of community affected leslie was they took her away from her mother to which on the way her brother past and now at the end her home got bombed to which her new love one got killed by the act of the

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