Book Thief: A Brief Summary

“‘If you ever tell anyone about that man…’ Her teacher. Rudy. It didn’t matter whom. What mattered was that all were punishable.” (page 203). Liesel and her family were going against society and what they wanted them to do, and if anyone found out they were doing this, she could be punished. The conflict was resolved in the end of the book because WWⅡ had come to an end. “When the war was over and Hitler had delivered himself to my arms, Alex Steiner resumed work in his shop.” (page 548). When the conflict is resolved, Liesel's world is changed in many ways. One being she is alone. Right before the war ended, Himmel Street faced a tragedy. Something that couldn’t be fixed. Something that left one girl alone. Himmel Street was bombed in the middle of the night and every one that Liesel had cared about and loved had died. “‘Wake up Rudy,’ and now, as the sky went on heating and showering ash, Liesel was holding Rudy Steiner's shirt by the front.” (page 535). The only people that were there for Liesel were the mayor and his wife. When the conflict is resolved and the war is over for good, Liesel and Max meet again in Alex Steiner's store. “Finally, in October 1945, a man with swampy eyes, feathers of hair, and a clean-shaven face walked into the shop.” (page 548). The one song that I felt really connected with this conflict is I’ll Be Your Shelter by Taylor Dayne. The song sends

Resolution – Liesel goes to live with Ilsa Hermann. After the war was over Max went to visit Liesel in the shop. Liesel ends up dying in Australia and she has a conversation with

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, takes place in 1940s Nazi Germany in the small town of Molching. The main character, Liesel Meminger, takes on a role as the foster child of Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She also meets a young boy named Rudy Steiner, who goes on to be her best friend and lover. In the book, Liesel faces many challenges big and small. From hiding a Jew in the basement to a thieving lifestyle, Liesel has to learn to overcome all of life's problems. Through all of this, she is supported by her foster father Hans Hubermann who is caring to people he barely knows, intelligence despite his lack of education, and generosity even when he has little for himself.

In The Book Thief, a work of historical fiction, written by Markus Zusak introduces the main character Liesel Meminger, the reader starts to see how she keeps having many conflicts but always stays positive. Liesel has many conflicts, for example her brother dies early in the book and that shapes the way she is. Later on Liesel steals books and that makes her happy because the first book she stole was the grave digger's handbook and that is how she remembers her brother. Liesel steals and reads books this is how she finds happiness with all the bad things going on around her. In the end of the book most of the people she loves die and it is hard for her to find happiness again. The author uses the setting and point of view to express theme and to make the reader feel sympathy; He uses this because with the theme of finding light in the darkness, deaths perception, and the setting of Germany makes the theme clearer.

Liesel Meminger is the daughter of Paula Meminger. She is also the sister of late Warren Meminger. Consequently, she steals the first book in the novel, called The Gravedigger's Handbook. Therefore, Death gave her the nickname of “ the book thief” before us knowing that she would become “the book thief”. Liesel Meminger is the hardworking, book-thieving, kind-hearted protagonist of The Book Thief. She loves books so much that she steals them, even before knowing how to read. All of this started because stealing books reminds her of Warren Meminger. This is even she bonds more with Hans Hubermann, her foster father, dedicates his time to teach her how to read. We might be asking, why hasn’t she gotten an education at the age of 10. The answer is not as clear as others, but it definitely has to do with Liesel father’s communist affiliations. He was part of the German Communist Party, that was popular when Hitler took over. This is also the reason why she had to be fostered.

Liesel sits and talks to Max, but he keeps sleeping for days. Death visits Himmel Street, but he doesn't take Max's struggling soul, and he doesn't see Liesel. Max opens his eyes twice but both times falls back into his coma. Liesel starts to read The Whistler to him. Finally Rosa makes Liesel go out

His name was Max and they hid him in their basement. They just put some old stuff together so it looked like a collection of old junk nobody wants to use. Rosa and Hans toke a care of him because they knew he would suffer and die. They also knew that if somebody figure out they are hiding a Jew, they would all get in big trouble. They didn’t have any money, but they had a heart so they agreed to hide him. "When a Jew shows up at your place of residence in the early hours of the morning, in the very birthplace of Nazism, you're likely to experience extreme levels of discomfort. Anxiety, disbelief, paranoia". (Shmoop) Max was a friend with Liesel and he made a book for her, where he explained some stuff that was going on. "The word shaker and the young man climbed up to the horizontal trunk. They navigated the branches and began to walk. When they looked back, they noticed that the majority of onlookers had started to return to their own places. In there. Out there. In the forest. But as they walked on, they stopped several times, to listen. They thought they could hear voices and words behind them, on the word shaker's tree."

Because of him and his family being Jewish, he was almost taken away by the Nazis, ”Again. ‘Open up!’... As expected, it was a Nazi. In Uniform.” (Zusak, 193). Max would have been taken away if his mother had not saved him. He feels guilty for not saying a proper goodbye to his family,” They left, without looking back. It tortured him. If only he’d turned for one last look at his family as he left the apartment. Perhaps then the guilt would not have been so heavy.” (Zusak, 193). Once Max finds the Hubermann house, Hans keeps his promise and let’s Max hide in his basement. This is extremely dangerous for everybody involved, so Max feels terrible about putting Hans and Rosa in that situation, “Thank you. For Max Vandenburg, those were the two most pitiful words he could possibly say, rivaled only by I’m sorry. There was a constant urge to speak both expressions, spurred on by the affliction of guilt.” (Zusak, 208).

Hans feels compelled to offer one of the Jewish prisoners a piece of bread and is whipped along with the prisoner by a Nazi guard. Now Hans is desperately afraid the Nazis will search his house and find Max, so he sends Max away that very night. His house is never searched, and Hans berates himself constantly, waiting to be punished for his mistake.

Her foster mother cleans clothes for the mayor and his wife and Liesel delivers the clean clothes to the mayor’s house. One day the mayor’s wife offers her a book, Liesel secretly wants it but refuses it. Later on, she returns to the house, sneaks in through an open window and steals the book. This gives her a sense of completion, sort of as if she has earned the book by stealing it. She continues stealing books from the house until one day the mayor’s wife notices that they are missing.

The Book Thief The Book thief is a film set in 1938 and directed by Brian Percival. This film is about a young man named Max Vandenburg and a young girl named Liesel Meminger. This film is about how these two friends who live in two completely different worlds grow to be stronger than ever. Max Vandenburg, who is a Jewish man, is a very kind hearten person who would do anything to protect Liesel and her family.

The Book Thief is the story of a nine-year-old girl Liesel Meminger who is a German girl, who lives with her foster parents during the world war 2. When her brother dies on the way of having a fever, and that's when she stole her first book “The GraveDigger's HandBook ” buried in the snow. Even though she does not know how to read, it is a suvneer of her old and better life and dead her brother. She finds a bit of her real dad in her foster dad Hans who teaches her to read and write. She also meets Rudy Steiner who becomes her best friend and falls in love with her. Liesel develops a love for book and words, which she increases

This prompt that were writing about, “What is the theme of The Book Thief?”, lets us give our opinion on the book. Even though it’s not fully our opinion, we still get to state some of our opinion in our writing. This is my first time writing about a prompt like this. What I think the theme of the book is that Liesel steals books, her family keeps Max in the basement, and the kindness of words.

If I had to chose a book to commit to memory, similar to the “Book People,” in Fahrenheit 451, I would choose to memorize The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. The Book Thief is a novel that mainly focuses on the life of a Liesel Meminger, a girl fostered by a German family during Nazi Germany. Her foster family soon hides a Jew named Max Vandenburg, that leads to conflict in the story due to the occurring Holocaust. However, the novel is told from a unique and proprietary perspective--the perspective of Death. Throughout the novel, Death foreshadows the coming death of the characters in the book. I believe that The Book Thief is a prime candidate for memorization because of its important historical events, despite its fictitious characters. Regardless

In the Book Thief we are introduced to an interesting character named Rudy. Rudy was a “bony legged, sharp teethed,blue eyed boy with blonde hair.” In chapter eight we are introduced to the character when Liesel plays soccer with the Himmel Street children. Since that part of the book we got to witness the ten year old boy grow and go through significant problems that eventually tore apart his life. Within the book we witness the characteristics of Rudy slowly change over time. When we first see the young boy we witness a young, full headed young boy with big dreams about being a sprinter like Jessie owen; all the way to the point where his demeanor completely changed and he awaits for death.