Characters In The Book Theif's Since The Book Thief

The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by Markus Zusak set in Munich, Germany during the Nazi reign from 1936-1943. The novel incorporates a main character that is, in the beginning, an innocent child who doesn't understand the world and takes her on a journey where she grows up and matures through the hardships and challenges of her life. The story is narrated by the character Death, who is a fresh take on the Grim Reaper, only wearing the black cloak when it's cold and never carries a syte. Death describes the life Liesel Meminger, an orphaned girl who witnesses her brother's death and burial and finds herself being adopted by the benevolent old couple, the Hubermanns. The rest of the story follows Liesel's journey through her incredibly challenging life with the Hubermanns and characters such as Rudy, The mayor's wife, and Max helping her along. Symbolism in The Book Thief deepens the story by conveying many different ideas and emotions that supports the reader's understanding of the story. This is especially apparent with the use of the gravediggers to help the reader remember characters, the use of color to help the reader feel the proper emotions and remember the correct events, and the use of Liesel's changing feelings about Rudy to convey how Liesel grows and matures through the book.

So Liesel is sent away to live with new foster parents alone as her little brother dies on the journey, alone and scared Liesel’s whole life begins to change. Much like in Room, because Liesel is given the opportunity to learn and flourish her whole identity is changed for the better as she makes friends and becomes literate but nothing can change her constant need to contact her real mother. Abandonment is something Liesel comes to know as she realises she will never see her mother again. Abandonment is something Jack also feels as Room becomes his ‘family’ and when he loses Room he longs for familiarity just like Liesel does with her mother. There was no possible way for Liesel to control where or who she was placed with due to the injustices and unfairness of society at the time, the hardships of the war taught Liesel how to overcome heartbreak and abandonment. Death narrates “I witness the ones that are left behind, crumbled among the jigsaw pieces of realisation, despair and surprise. They have punctured hearts, they have beaten lungs.” Liesel was left behind and perhaps that is why she was so understanding when she was asked to aid in hiding a Jew, her personality had developed to a point where she was able to be sympathetic and understand the importance of helping hide the boy. Because of her hardships and

Max’s father saved Hans life in World War I. It was the Hubermanns job to return the favor by letting Max take hostage in there basement. Liesel liked Max because they had a lot in common.

The Book Thief is set in the time of World War 2 where the Holocaust is present and disaster is everywhere. Throughout the story, Liesel, the main character, learns that words are extremely powerful and hold the ability for people to use them for good or for evil. Among the disaster and altercations, Liesel uses her literature to comfort her and make herself more powerful due to her knowledge, which demonstrates the theme of the story, the comfort and power of literature and words softens the pain of loss.

Much of The Book Thief revolved around a common German family hiding a Jew. During the Holocaust and the book, Jews and other people seen as insignificant were imprisoned in concentration camps.

As we have discussed the penalties for harboring a jew was very high. Throughout the book distant members of the Hubermann family come into the picture which makes hiding Max quite a bit harder. Just like today politics are a gray area in family discussions. Politics have a habit of making perfectly peaceful conversations into, Angry gibberish being shouted all over the place. But during world war two political conversation could stir up a lot more than just angry words. For example, We meet Hans Junior and right from the get go we know that he is a member of the Nazi party and quite disgusted by his father's lack of support for the Nazi party. In Summary the whole conversation ends with Hans Junior disowning his father and never talking to him again. The Hubermanns and many other families during this time did not inform their family that they were harboring a “fugitive” and you can clearly see why. Max did not exist as far as the rest of the Hubermanns family was concerned. The Hubermann fell apart ,over a secret. Which only added more fear and more hate towards the Nazis. The Hubermanns had the mindset of “you can do what you want as long as you don't get caught” and it is perfectly displayed on page

Liesel is kind-hearted because in The Book Thief she said, “ I don’t want to lose someone else”. She said this to Max after they became close friends. Given that, she is kind-hearted one can tell that she would do anything to protect her family from death. After WWII max and Liesel reunite and they hug and cry until they fell to the floor. Where Liesel use to live in 33 Himmel Street before there was a raid that destroyed the whole street, they hide Max. Her best friend is Rudy Steiner, he is a neighbor at first but then the friendship grows after each mischievous thing they do together. With Rudy, she grows and steals books for fun. Rudy might think it is fun, but to Liesel, it means for her. Like I said, she does this in memory of her brother. They have a race and it is a draw after falling. Rudy then said to Liesel, “If it’s a draw, do I still get my kiss?” Liesel then says, “ Not in a million years” and Rudy at the end he says “One day, Liesel, you’ll be dying to kiss me”. Therefore, at the end of the book and middle, she desires to kiss him but doesn’t until the end where he is dead. Later on, her family and she hide a Jew, Max Vandenburg, from the Nazis. Max and Liesel have grown close together. Liesel is competitive, compassionate,

Many factors contribute to shaping Liesel's personality, the most evident being all the suffering she had to see and go through as a child. It's known that one would experience emotional damage after a traumatizing event, or in Liesel's case, events. Despite that, she was one of the most caring characters in the novel. Liesel willingly read stories to calm

In The Book Thief, the author, Markus Zusak writes a beautiful story following a young German girl named Liesel who experiences the atrocities that occur during World War II. Early in the book, she is given by her mother to foster parents who raise her as their own. During her childhood, she begins stealing books and learns about the power of words. Throughout the story, she bonds with many people including her neighbors, her foster parents and a Jew hidden in their basement. Most of the characters end up dying due to the horrible living conditions and time period the book takes place in.

Life during the 1940’s was hard for the entire world. As Germany caused suffering and loss in multiple other countries, the people of Germany suffered as well. The Book Thief follows the story of a German girl named Liesel, who was forced to be taken away from her family at a young age. She then becomes the foster daughter of Rosa and Hans Hubermann, whose children have grown up and left. Liesel struggles to understand why her mother had left her, and why Hitler was causing all of the bad things in her life to happen. In The Book Thief, Markus Zusak uses the theme of loss to show how it can bring people closer together.

Markus Zusak’s historical fiction novel, The Book Thief, tells the story of the Hubermanns living in Germany during World War II. The novel focuses on a young, adopted girl, Liesel, as she grows up and must survive in difficult times. Liesel keeps her morale high during the hard times she faces through her love and friendships with Max, a Jew that the Hubermanns secretly hide in their basement, and Hans, her stepdad.

The children, Misha Milgrom and Liesel Memminger are two different characters from two completely different stories. Liesel is a young girl who is introduced as a daughter and is adopted by a different family when her mother takes her to live with Mr. and Mrs. Huberman. She is full of curiosity and takes interest in the boy who lives in her basement. As the war begins to increase in intensity and she loses her family and friends. At the end of the story, Liesel’s life is described after the bombing. On the other hand, Misha is a young boy who is introduced as a thief in his story. He is taken in by a Jewish Boy and his friends and resorts to smuggling.

Liesel Meminger is a 9 year old, who is almost then, has blue eyes and blonde hair, one quote I found was “Liesel Meminger’s beginnings on Himmel street and the art of saumensching”. She is kind, a little quiet in the beginning, and steals book, the first book she told was the “the shoulder Shrug”. Rudy Strainer is 8 months older than Liesel, his blonde, has bony legs and sharp teeth. His personality is that he's nice, naughty, people think he's a little crazy because he painted himself charcoal black and ran the 100 meters. Rosa Herman is 5 feet, wore her brown, gray strands of elastic hair in a bun, her personality is that she is a little mean to Liesel when she first got home and she is kind.

Liesel and Rudy’s young age did not prevent them from realizing they should try to take action against unfairness. Against harsh circumstances, the characters in The Book Thief selflessly aided the Jewish people, synonymous to the brave Germans in real life that disagreed with Nazi ideas during the Jewish

Max left her by being taken a concentration camp when the Nazis raided. The punishment of hiding Max in their basement resulted in Hans deserting Liesel when a statement arrived that said “Hans Hubermann was to be drafted into the German army” (Zuzak, 417). Hans, Rosa and Rudy then collectively all abandoned her late one night as everyone was sleeping, bombs attacked Himmel street. “In the space of a few minutes, all of them were gone” (Zuzak, 530). Everything was destroyed except for a teenage Liesel