Analytical Essay On Elie Wiesel's Book Thief

Liesel Meminger, her brother and her mom are traveling by train to the place their mom picks out to be their foster home and to live with their foster parents Rosa and Hans Huberman. But on the way her brother, Werner, dies and is buried in a graveyard full of snow. Liesel found her first book called The Grave Diggers Handbook and takes it. This is how she gets her nickname the book thief. They get in a car and drive to Himmel Street and arrive at the home that Liesel is staying at. As they arrive she thinks Rosa is a bit scary but she is getting used to how she

I think the theme in The book thief is courage. I chose courage because it can be shown mentally, physically, and emotionally. Hans shows courage when he agrees to help Max Vandenberg to stay with his family. Leisel shows courage when she fakes an injury to warn her parents that the nazi officers are inspecting the basements. She showed courage by putting herself in harms way to protect her family and max. Liesel also showed courage by reading “the whistler” in the basement during the first air raid. “Despite of being afraid of what might happen to her, she found the strength to refocus herself and put aside her fears in an effort to make everyone else feel calmer and less afraid”(zusak 381)this is how she showed courage for the second time.

Over the course of reading The Book Thief, readers will come to know about Markus Zusak’s constant use of descriptive words, figurative language, and character plots throughout the story. In one particular part of the novel, Zusak shows an example of all three of these points to support one of the many central themes he gives us. While Liesel is standing in front of the burnt offerings near the town hall and the square after a Hitler rally, she sees a book underneath all of the hot ash. This moment allows Zusak to go into explicit detail to make a point about the significance of the moment to the reader. In The Book Thief, Zusak uses vocabulary that evokes recklessness and stealthiness, personification about books, and Liesel’s internal

At age two, Max’s Father was shot. When he was nine, his mother became broke, so his mother and him moved into his Uncle’s house with his six cousins. Then, when Max was thirteen, his Uncle died. After his Uncles death, Max decided that he did not want to die a meaningless death. Max wanted his life to have a purpose. He then began fist fighting. But his fist fighting career came to an end when the Nazi Party’s hate towards Jews took over the people’s minds rapidly. Soon, Max had to go into hiding. Max had felt guilty and selfish for going

Markus Zusak ended up rewriting the first 90 pages of The Book Thief 200 times before it was published. This book is about a young German girl named Liesel Meminger who has to move suddenly to Germany to live with a new family, and a new mother, Rosa. Markus Zusak's The Book Thief contains many memorable characters. However, the character that is the most memorable is Rosa Hubermann because she has a very distinct personality.

He's being punished with poverty and lack of medical treatment. He is not alone.Liesel's book stealing never quite qualifies as criminality, unless you're being strict. As Rudy points out, it's almost silly to call taking books from Ilsa Hermann's library "stealing." Her book thievery presents a pleasant counterpart to the very real crimes of the Nazis.Being a Jew in these times means being a criminal. There is no move a Jew in Nazi Germany can make that isn't considered a crime.Death explains to us that sau means a pig. Saumensch is an insult for women, Saukerl is an insult for men. Arschloch is "asshole" (sorry for using the term, but it’s nessecary to describe this part of the book). These terms become terms of endearment between the characters as the novel progresses.At this early stage, though, being called a pig-girl isn't exactly endearing. Liesel soon learns that calling Rosa "Mama" is one big way to stay on her good side.Death tells us that this is a definition that isn't found in the dictionaries. As we see when we get into the Duden Dictionary sections of the novel, it's sometimes hard to find the right words to express what we see and feel.This theme is repeated over and over in the novel, by anyone who survives. Michael Holtzapfel's guilt over his brother's death (which he had nothing to do with and couldn’t prevent) drives him to commit suicide.The passage does a lot to highlight Max's suffering. Two years hiding in dark sheds has made him an

The scene where Liesel loses her brother is sad, however we didn’t get the

Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden jew, one was delivered.The only thing Liesel knew about her father was a label she didn’t understand, Kommunist. Liesel didn’t understand why her mother would leave her on someone else’s doorstep if she loved her. The first few months living on Himmel Street were hard for Liesel, she constantly had nightmares in the night, and Hans Hubermann had to go in and calm her. After discovering that Liesel could not read or write, they put her in school with the smaller children learning the alphabet. When Liesel turned 10, she was then in Hitler Youth, she was enrolled in Ban of German Girls. Hans Hubermann, Papa, wasn’t around much, and Liesel walked with her mama often to deliver washing and ironings. Rudy Steiner, the neighbor kid, became Liesel's best friend. While showing Liesel around town, Rudy bet Liesel a kiss that she couldn’t beat him in a race. Liesel got out of goalie in soccer if she won. They called it a draw, neither of them were awarded their

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is the story of a young girl named Liesel who after her little brother dies is sent to live with her new foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. As she adjusts to her new life she meets a boy named Rudy Steiner who she will become close friends with in the future. Hans realizes that Liesel can not read so he teaches her start with a book that liesel stole from her brother’s burial. Her life gets simpler until her foster family takes in a Jew to hide him from the Nazis. He eventually leaves because of the suspicion that Hans drew to himself by giving a prisoner on his way to an internment camp some bread. Liesel keeps stealing books along with Rudy, and the air raids occurring in her town begin to occur. One night a group of planes bombed Liesel's street and killed her parents, Rudy, and everyone else on her street.

After World War II was over, Liesel lost her adopted parents and her friends, but when Max, who left the Hubermann household before the bombs dropped, appeared at the door, “[Liesel and Max] hugged and cried and fell to the floor” (Zusak 548). In the end, Max had written a few books for Liesel from the pages of the Mein Kampf, and Liesel read many stories to Max, showing that words are strong enough to allow two strangers to bond.

The book starts off with Liesel, aka the book thief, on a train traveling to Munich with her brother named Werner and their mother. But on the way there the train stops working and Werner ends up dying, but while he is being buried Liesel takes a book from one of the gravediggers. After getting on another train they get to Munich where Liesel is giving away to foster care. She really doesn’t want to leave but she knows that it’s for the best that she leaves her mother and go into foster care.

“Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight.” (99) In this quote Elie Weisel really describes how I look at chapter 7. Well I know other thing happened in this chapter but I really think that a big part of this chapter is about Elie not feeling like there is any will in his body to fight, to breathe, to live. Which really opened my mind up more in understanding the novel in a deeper way. It made me see what it could do to a person in a concentration camp. It dehumanized Elie. I believe that he was more like a caged animal. If you put a person like Elie in a “cage” a stripe him of his humanity he no longer will have a mentality of a human being. When you break a person for example in this book two of the worst things could happen: lose the will to live or could do whatever the person who put you in the cage wants you to do.

Liesel says, “I’m not stupid,” after assaulting Ludwig Schmeikl. This is the first time Liesel truly speaks up for herself after being mistreated so frequently. Ludwig teases her about how she struggles to read, berating her in front of the entire class, and Liesel physically attacks him after class, gaining back the respect she deserves. She is standing up for herself which indicates change in character and positive growth. She wordlessly left her biological mother only to be subjected to verbal abuse by her foster mom and has to face her peers constantly undermining her in class. Liesel is merely a child and a human being and justifiably reaches her breaking point. Liesel has been attacked repeatedly resulting from the cruel ways she is treated and in her class she finally snaps. With each punch she demands her right to have basic human respect back. #positivegrowth

It tells us the feelings of Liesel after the bombing of her city. She had lost her friends, family, and her possessions including Rudy and her stepparents.All these tragic things that happened in her life made it very hard for her to cope with. She also had to cope with the death of her brother and not knowing at all where her mother went. She has to be be brave to cope with all the pain and that she faces throughout her life.

I would only recommend this book to someone who loves to reads about history and can appreciate a book with many layers to it. In my opinion, this book could be somewhat confusing and hard to follow because it tended to jump back and forth between the past and the future.