Word Power In The Book Thief

On average a woman speaks 20,000 words a day and a man speaks 7,000 words a day. The Book Thief was written by Markus Zusak, the book had taken place during the time period of world war 2. The power of words is shown although out the book. It changes a person 's life in either a positive or negative way. Words power starts to really show from when takes her first book, all the way to nightmares that Liesel has occurred in which Hans was always there to comfort her. It had spanded all the way to the hiding of Max, the hidden Jew. With Liesel being able to read, to the writings of the Word Shaker from Rudy, and the Mein Kampf changing Jews way of Life suggests that words can either save or destroy a person’s life. Liesel had started to read from books, giving an understanding of the true horrific world around her. Liesel uses her power of words for the better of others. “The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn 't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing” says Liesel(82.28). Early on in the

The tear was made of friendship- a- single word- and it dried and become a seed….. Till it was the tallest tree in the forest”, “A hundred and ninety-six soldiers could not make any impact on the word shaker’s tree”(Zusak 447). The quotes above demonstrated by words shows how Max and Liesel friendship was like a seed, their friendship is growing by the day and becoming stronger everyday. Later on the book it says that the tree was indestructible showing that the friendship between the two was impenetrable. In the story written by Max it says that, “ she knew how powerless a person can be without words”(Zusak 446), the quote implies that Liesel knows the powers of words that how they can save someone 's life or in this destroy someone 's life like