Liesel's Use Of 'Irony In The Book Thief'

Liesel and Rudy spent their lives having fun together and making good memories. They spent years making lasting, beautiful moments as their friendship grew. Rudy was never able to stay with Liesel all the way but it didn’t change the fact that they had the best childhood with one another.

As Rudy and Liesel’s relationships grows, they become more sneaky and conniving as they begin to know more about each other. Rudy has negatively impacted Liesel’s situation by convincing her to steal books, helping her steal books from Ilsa Hermann and Rudy falling in love with Liesel. “At school, Rudy made a special point of seeking Liesel out during the breaks” (Zusak 51). Rudy has changed Liesel by forcing her to do bad things which can ultimately bring bad things in the future. It all started when Liesel and Rudy went to the Mayor’s Library to steal books. What are you waiting for? (Zusak 131). Rudy whispered to Liesel as she was eight steps from the

Lois Lowry uses irony in The Giver to show how brainwashed The Giver’s society is. They have been told that many daily activities are completely ordinary, when what they are actually doing is not normal. Lowry uses irony to help the readers understand what The Giver’s society fails to notice. This helps the reader to understand what people believe in this community without having to experience this society for themselves. Lowry especially uses the use of ‘releasing’ to show what the people in this community do not understand. Irony is shown throughout this novel, which is helpful to understanding what people believe in this community.

When Liesel Meminger moves to Himmel Street to live with her new foster parents, she befriends a young German boy named Rudy Steiner. The two become best of friends as they accompany one another throughout the book, going about their daily activities and adventures they embark on along the way. At first the pair are just neighbors, with Rudy helping Liesel adjust to her new home that is the small town of Molching. Soon though, Rudy starts to develop feelings for Liesel that can only be described as him having a crush on her. He is very forward with her as the book goes on, as he has become more comfortable with her. However, it appears that Liesel does not really find it in her to have the same kind of feelings toward him. “As long as both

In The Book Thief, Markus Zusak implies that words can be as harmful and powerful as actions through Liesel’s verbal attack towards Ilsa Hermann. WWII is happening during that time period, making Germany very poor, so Ilsa chooses to fire Rosa to be fair to the people. Before she sends Liesel off, she gives the girl a book. When Liesel realizes what has happened, she goes back to throw the book at Ilsa and yell at her, becoming “more spiteful and evil than she thought herself capable…

"The Pardoners Tale" is a very interesting story that contains personification involving death and includes irony as the story plays out. It is a story that makes you want to read until the end just to see how it plays out and the way irony becomes used. While you read the story you can notice irony very easily and with death being the main key to the story, it is not hard to miss. Geoffrey Chaucer makes frequent use of personification and irony in his popular story "The Pardoners Tale."

Liesel's life was a roller coaster, with ups downs and jerks to the left and right she could never catch her breath after every big drop. But this roller coaster wasn't complete and she was going straight for the end of it all. Liesel just couldn't have anything her way her life was always going from bad to worse and from worse to terrible and then it would start all over, this continued throughout the book as everything around her changes and crumbles. From one of her only friends in the world falling into a coma, to everything around her burning to the ground many things happen to her and Himmel Street itself. Leaving her to wonder when everything will get better, Eventually things do, but not without their

Irony is an important device used heavily within both the context of The Canterbury Tales and “The Pardoner’s Tale” itself. The device is first explored in the deceitful personality of the pardoner, which is hidden by his charismatic and talented façade. The pardoner begins the prologue of the tale by describing how he preaches “the love of money is the root of all evil”, only to be guilty of the sin himself. Using fake relics and other tricks, he escapes labor by stealing from poor townspeople, and has seemingly endless greed. He excuses his behavior under the belief that as long as he teaches the right principles, he hasn’t harmed anyone. The situation is intensely ironic, as you would expect a man as seemingly intelligent and righteous to

This passage reminds of the time when I was at the airport waving goodbye to my cousin, just before she went through the security checkpoint. Just like what Liesel did in the text, I was also holding on to my cousin's hand until I got blocked off by one of the security guards, who were at the entrance of the checkpoint. However I was only five at that time, so I didn’t care about what the security guard said and kept on following my cousin. As a result, the guard was angered and I was asked to leave the checkpoint and my cousin alone. As I left, my eyes were teary because she was the only girl cousin that I had and that she cares about me. As a result, I can still remember this experience clearly in my

The theme of the story is to appreciate what you have in life. Rudy and Rosa are two of the many killed in the bombings at the end of the story and Liesel has several regrets. She regrets never expressing to Rudy that she loved him and also regrets never appreciating Rosa for all the work she did to support her and her family.

On an island that destroys innocence and welcomes chaos lives a group of boys. The book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, was written after World War II. A plane crashed and a group of boys were left alone on the island. Golding shows the transition of the boys from society and innocence, to savagery and chaos. Without society our world would turn into savages, Golding shows this through irony because of what he witnessed in World War II.

Alexandre Dumas crafts a world of desires and objectives within his book, “The Count of Monte Cristo.” He creates a perfect balance of veracities and inveracities, good and wicked , enough to engage them in battle amongst the consciences of the characters. Profoundly, the inveracities and the wicked stand victoriously. In “The Count of Monte Cristo” Dumas explores the idea that people justify their immoral intentions with false reasons through the uses of imagery and irony.

The short story Trifles, by Susan Glaspell is a mystery murder story that takes place in a time where men are superior to woman and that women’s rights has not been recognized, and how women were considered their husbands property. The irony associated with the title Trifles can be explained in many ways. There are events that cause the women to unite and hide the evidence from the men. Mrs. Glaspell is sending out a message to her female readers. To begin with, the title Trifles is ironic because Trifles explores far more than minor matters as it attempts to show the serious consequences of dismissing the feelings and troubles of individuals.

Despite being a writer in a time period that saw women’s literature as insignificant, Susan Glaspell used her work to shed light on the trials of women and the popularizing idea of feminism. The male dominated society of the late nineteenth century bred an environment that oppressed and disrespected females. Traditional gender roles were deeply engrained in the culture, causing a lack of concern for any effects on women. Men regarded the actions of women and the issues of femininity with very little importance, hence the name of the work. With Trifles, Glaspell establishes that the conditions of patriarchy push women toward extreme emotional and psychological distress.

An example of situational irony would be when the townspeople are trying to find out who the father of Pearl is and all of a sudden it becomes known to the reader that the father is Arthur Dimmesdale. Hawthorne tells the reader this after we are introduced to the antagonist and estranged husband of Hester, Roger Chillingworth. The readers awareness of Arthur being the father of Pearl is also dramatic irony because Roger does not know. Arthur says Pearl is the child of her “father’s guilt and [her] mother’s shame…” which is ironic because he is the father and he knows he is guilty.(100) The fact that the Scarlet A is always being described as “beautiful” and fantastic is very ironic because it is a representation of sin and