Death By Liesel Now Analysis

Liesel experienced awful events, such as losing her brother and Rudy, and hiding in air-raid shelters. When Liesel lost her brother, “Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white”(Zusak 24). Using imagery,

Max is Jewish man that is sent to the live and hide with Liesel and her family from the Nazis. After close to a year of living with the Hubermanns Nazi soldiers came to Mulching to look for Jews in hiding. Therefore Max had the ultimate decision to continue to hid and have the risk to get caught or to leave before the Nazis come knocking on the door. The consequences for Max staying

Liesel is characterized as a girl full of courage and her unwillingness to back down. An example of her courageous mentality is when Ludwig Schmeikl bullies her because of her inability to read. The narrator explains, “(Liesel) stood up and took the book from him... she threw it away and kicked him as hard as she could” (82). This scene shows that Liesel is not afraid of standing up for herself and does not back down from Ludwig. Instead she retaliates back against him, bringing him to the floor. While she may be

Liesel and her brother are travelling by train to Munich with their mother to be given to their foster parents when she notices her brother is sideways and dead. After Werner’s funeral, Liesel, overcome with shock and

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them but now and then I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.” (Zusak 5) He watches the leftover humans and pities them. He is almost human. He feels, he sympathizes, and has a soul himself. “ Usually my curiosity leads to the dreaded witnessing of some kind of human outcry, but on this occasion, I have to say that it although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.” (Zusak 533) At this point of the story, the bombings have come and gone. Liesel Meminger’s family and friends have died and she is alone. Death watches her and is said to have had a broken heart. He is broken hearted for Liesel, because she has lost everything.

In the middle of the book death says, “He didn’t deserve to die the way he did...on the night he passed away. He’d have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his lifeless body.” Through this hint the narrator, death prepares the reader in advance for Rudy’s death. Maybe for some people this is helpful, but for some others it will ruin the story. In another instance where we get a hint of things to come is evidenced in, “Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.” This tells me how Liesel got all her books and it took the surprise away from the fact that a Jew was going to live in their basement. Even these hints hold a sad fact in them of human beings having to hide in basements or losing their loved

From the time that Max left the Hubermanns to when Liesel saw Max in the marching is the Climax of The Book Thief. When Max left the Hubermann’s it was because of an incident that happened with Hans. During one of the first Jewish marching Hans threw out a piece of bread to the Jews, which was most frowned upon by the Nazis. Hans didn’t think of the consequences of what had happened, and he knew Max had to leave because the Nazis were most likely suspecting he was hiding Jews. When Hans threw bread to the Jew, Liesel and Hans realized how the simplest actions could enrage the Nazis so greatly and they saw what the Nazis were really doing to the Jews. At this point they weren’t just hearing about what the Nazi party was doing, but they witnessed

He couldn't-.”. Liesel found it very hard for her to cope with the loss, which is ironic as the narrator is death. But it is understandable as death is very touchy, heartbreaking, and hard subject for anyone with a heart. In time Liesel learned to be strong and maintain her person, I showed this through the flower growing through the rubble and wanting to grow bigger. Liesel's brother's loss had become very an obvious hardship in her life but she was able to flourish and be strong through that loss at a young age, just like the flower through the rubble and ashes. The difficulty of losing Werner was heartbreaking and left a mark on Liesel's life, but she was able to persevere and push through that adversity, becoming a stronger better person.

“They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls. A few bombs usually do the trick. Or some gas chambers, or the chitchat of faraway guns.”(308) Death narrates this part of the story because she is the only one with all this knowledge because she can always see where people are dying and what is happening to them. Liesel would not be able to know all of the crude was they killed jews. I think that this adds to the theme because, Max is hiding because of his religion and knowing now what they would do to him explains what jews went through if they caught him. “1. The desperate Jews - their spirits in my lap as we sat on the roof next to the

Liesel is a nine year old who her life had changed because of the society she was in. she liked reading books but because of the society she was in she couldn't have books but she stole book due to her society. Max is a twenty two year old guy. Max was a jew who his life also changed because of the society he was at the time. He had to run away from his home and leave her mother behind. Max didn't have anywhere else to go but to the hubermanns house. He couldn't be seen or he would be in big consequences that might of be really risky. Due to that, Max had to hide for a very long time in the Hubermanns basement, until one day he decided to leave because it would put everyone in that house in danger. Rudy was eight months more older than Liesel. He had blue eyes, hair

He is a German Jew that lives during World War 2. His father, Eric Vandenburg, was friends with Hans Hubermann, Liesel’s foster father, and Eric saved Hans’ life so now Max hopes that Hans is willing to help him. He feels extremely guilty that he left his family in order to save himself and believes that he had a choice to leave not that it was an act of survival.

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

Unlike the Nazi’s however, Liesel realizes the pain her words caused. "Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series of wounds were rising to the surface of her skin. All from words. From Liesel's words" (Zuask 253). A child, no more than 12 years old, was telling someone not to cry, that she was being “pathetic.” It was all because of one group of people taking the lives of millions that a young girl believes crying over your loved ones deaths was ridiculous. At one point, Death even compares itself to humanity saying, "You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue" (Zuask 307).

I don’t agree with the character’s action in this quote. Liesel knew that the Hubermanns were experiencing tough time with money and every little penny mattered. Yet, she decided to spend some of the money to mail the letters she wrote to her biological mother. Liesel nor anyone else has any clue about her mother’s whereabouts. The changes of her mother actually receiving the letter are extremely thin. For all Liesel knows, her real mother may be dead. Therefore, I don't agree with the character's actions.

After Liesel stole couple more books from the mayor's house at 8 Grande Strasse. After a while, the mayor left a letter in a book, informing her that she should try coming through the front door. However, Liesel attempted to knock and go through the front door of the mayor's house, but she didn’t have the courage to do so. The other day, Hans bought a radio using the money he earned in the summer, it will make a sound when there will be an air raid, however the radio does not stop the air raids from your enemies. One night there is an air raid, Rosa, Hans and Liesel went to the basement by the name of Fiedler, in order to be safe from the air raid. After the all clear signal went off, Liesel and the Hubermanns went home and searched for Max,