Hans Hubermann In The Book Thief

the Odd One Out In 1939 Lots of children of Communists and Jews are given up during World War II, mainly because it would be safer to live away from Germany and other countries that have been invaded. In the novel, The Book Thief, Liesel and Werner the children of communist parents are left by their own mother and taken in by the Hubermann family. On the way to Munich, Germany, Liesel's brother dies. As a result, the scared 8 year old is left with two strangers, a compassionate foster father and a repetitively swearing foster mother that shows her love alternatively.

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it 24 hours a day. That was the business of hiding a Jew”(211). The Hubermann family in “the Book Thief” demonstrate their opposition against the Nazi Party and Hitler’s doctrines in many ways. They do so by sheltering a Jew, giving bread to passing concentration camp captives, Hans’ unwillingness to join the Party, and Liesel’s illegal book-stealing from the book burning. and the family’s overall kindheartedness to Jewish people, which was interpreted as unloyal to the Nazis. Unlike many people during the war, instead of standing by and supporting Hitler just so that they would remain safe, the Hubermanns were nice and helpful to the struggling at the time.These actions made them different than most families.

The Point of View this book is written from the third person the narrator is death, he explains in great depth the character’s thoughts, conflicts and emotions. In the matter that Death talks a lot about Liesel and her family what she is thinking, her mothers or step mother’s actions as well. Death or the Narrator is Omniscient, he knows everything that’s going to happen in the book for instance the book burning, the Hitler March or the day that Papa teaches Liesel how to read. He also knows the events and history that would take place at that time like Hitler’s birthday, the wars, Hitler had brought on, Liesel's family life her dead brother and enslaved mother. This narrator objective is effective because it allows us the readers to foreshadow the events next in the book .

Hans first shows love and compassion towards Liesel, when she had first came to 33 Himmel street. It was Hans who sat with her every night because he understood that she was having nightmares and she had just lost her brother and would no longer see her family.. It took Liesel some time to finally open up and start showing love and compassion to Hans who she called “Papa”. Hans and Liesel’s relationship wasn’t like anyone else’s. Papa had introduced so many things to Liesel, Hans was Liesel’s first friend. Hans asked Liesel to keep a secret and it was about Max living inside of their home, but not only he was a Jew.

In the exhilarating tale, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, a character that would serve well as a best friend is Hans Hubermann. Hans is a great example of someone who is a great friend because he is very compassionate. Hans showed compassion in the story when he cared for Liesel as his own daughter and when he risked his life for the sake of Max Vandenburg’s. On page 36 of the text, it states, “Every night, Liesel would nightmare. … Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann her new papa into the room to soothe her, to love her.” This shows that Hans Hubermann is compassionate towards Liesel and he is there when she needs love. Also, Liesel can count on him to lift up her spirits when she is feeling

In the following segment form Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, the Hubermanns have been hiding Max Vandenburg, a Jew, in their basement. Max had been regularly sketching and writing in a book to keep himself sane. One night after an air-raid, Hans told Max about Liesel reading in the shelter, and how everyone had calmed down and listened to the story being told. Max, who could envision everyone sitting and listening intently to the young girl reading, wrote a short story of his own called “The Word Shaker.” As Max was forced to leave the Hubermann’s basement, he left his book for Liesel. Hans and Rosa (Liesel’s step-mother) were saving the book for a special occasion such as her birthday or Christmas. With Liesel’s papa gone off to war,

Hans Hubermann: I think Hans is worthy of getting 50% of the responsibility of Liesel’s life because he has taught her to read and write which is Liesel’s life. She thrives off of reading her books that she has stolen and been given. I also think he is worthy of this because he is the reason why Liesel is so comfortable with her new home. They instantly had a connection and throughout the novel this only grows and becomes stronger.

The different shots in the book thief helped me understand more about the main character Liesel Meminger. Liesel is a young girl who lost her little brother and her mother gives her up as soon as her brother dies. But luckily is taken in by Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann. All three of them have quite a separate bond at the start but later on they start getting quite close together and start to become a proper family. Many shots show Liesel's fear during the Holocaust of what's about to happen. When it was the parade for the burning of the jewish books Rudy and Liesel seem to be clueless of what's happening around them. They just join in with the experience of that time. But one camera shot showed the moment when liesel realises what's happening.

stranger knock on the door of 33 Himmel Street. Everything changes. Her parents start to act differently. The stranger is Max Vandenburg, who is a Jew. Hans Hubermann, Liesel's dad, knows Max’s father. They agree to hide Max in their basement. But if they were caught, then all of them would be taken away. This shows the troubles of people in Germany hiding Jews. This teaches the reader how it was dangerous and risky. The purpose of historical fiction is to teach readers about history, with a fictional element. The Book Thief achieves all the goals.

The song “Under Pressure” by Queen, best relates to my character of Liesel Meminger from the “Book Thief” written by Markus Zusak. This song connects to Liesel’s life by relating to the loved ones she's lost, and how the society and world around her affect her. This song connects to my character by talking about the destruction and rupture of love.

Liesel Meminger is a character who just lost her brother and is on her way to go stay with a new family. She stays with the Hubermann

His godfather was Ritter Hermann Von Epenstein, a half-Jewish nobleman, whose father had been honored because he was a physician to the Count of Friedrich IV. He was also Hermann’s mom’s lover. When he was eleven he was sent to Ansbach, a boarding school, where he was forced to try and learn how to play the violin. It wasn’t a very good boarding school, but it did teach him one good quality, which was loyalty.

CHAPTER 2- chapter two revealed more information about the Hubermanns and how they act towards Liesel. Rosa is more harsh and calls Liesel a Saumensch, which means girl pig, but Hans seems to be more interested with sharing

Hans Hubermann is loving, caring, welcoming, quiet person and has a tremendously huge heart. As a matter of fact, he is a painter and plays the accordion often for local bars as his job. Moreover, in his spare time, he enjoys to smoke and rolls his own cigarettes to sell regularly. Beside the fact he does not agree with the acts of the Nazi Party, he still has his membership to protect his family. In addition, to opening his home to an orphan and welcoming Liesel into the family, he is such an essential figure to her. Considering, he openly took his time to help her learn to write and read. Not to mention, Hans stays up at night to read Liesel her book and most often sleeps in her room to ensure she does not get nightmares. Unlike others, he

I nearly wrote you a reply and signed your mother's name.” This shows us truly how much Hans Hubberman cares for his foster daughter and I can relate to this because my mother had done something similar to this.When I was younger I believed that the tooth fairy did indeed exist so everytime a tooth would fall out my mom would put money under my pillow.Of course I didn’t know this at the time but after learning about it many years later I realized that she did this because she knew I would be hurt to find out that the tooth fairy was not real.In Liesel’s case Hans Hubberman cannot bear the thought of Liesel finding out that her mother has disappeared and is not recieving her