Max Vandenburg Character Analysis

Liesel Meminger, her brother and her mom are traveling by train to the place their mom picks out to be their foster home and to live with their foster parents Rosa and Hans Huberman. But on the way her brother, Werner, dies and is buried in a graveyard full of snow. Liesel found her first book called The Grave Diggers Handbook and takes it. This is how she gets her nickname the book thief. They get in a car and drive to Himmel Street and arrive at the home that Liesel is staying at. As they arrive she thinks Rosa is a bit scary but she is getting used to how she

Through the whole story comes the theme of war as a terrible mistake mankind. It brings death, pain, blood, sweeping away in its path state and the nation. Its victims are simply people for whom the war is unnatural, but by the will of a handful of patients mentally and physically tyrants they are involved in the lethal effect called war. In human war erased all the social, there is only animal fear, causing the fight to preserve his life.

In Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”, the narrator is on the hunt for a new copyist in his office. From what we can tell of our narrator, he is an unambitious, vanilla fellow but still has an air of condescension about him. He always thinks that he knows what is best for his employees, although in actuality, he knows very little. Enter Bartleby: the “incurably forlorn” and “sedate” answer to his prayers (330). Bartleby is a quiet man who gains employment at the law office of our narrator. Overall, he seemed to be a good worker who had a few kinks the narrator thought that he could iron out, but to no avail. At the end of his account, the narrator says “Ah Bartleby, Ah humanity” which suggests that he sees Bartleby as a representation of all people. This is because the narrator thinks of Bartleby and all other people as lesser than him and in need of his help.

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

It is obvious from the opening chapter that this novel will center on the war and the effects it has on a young group of soldiers, none of them more than twenty years of age. They are all friends and former classmates of Paul Baumer, the narrator and protagonist of the book; they have enlisted in the German infantry because their teacher, Kantorek, had painted for them a glorious picture of fighting and saving the homeland from destruction during World War I. In this first chapter, Baumer and his friends are away from the front lines, relaxing a bit after two weeks of fierce fighting. As each of the young men is introduced, it is apparent that they are tired, hungry, angry, and disillusioned over the war.

Zusak states how others survivors of war are being seen as grief and guilt. Max has hidden to save his own life. “The price was guilt and shame” as his family did not have the same chance by his guilt and finding escape from Nazi persecution. He is putting the Hubermans at risk which was why he os felt by guilt. During the first world was IIsa Hermann is fortunate that Liesel comes into her life to help her live again. In the novel Zusak says, "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. No final goodbye" He believes that he is deserting his family. His guilt overtakes him, and desertion makes him feel guilty and that he is worth nothing.

Throughout time, war has changed a person in both physical and emotional ways. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque strived to write about the true realities of war which contradicted the common, romantic belief about war. This novel captures and shifts the audience into a world so different than their home and allows them to almost experience war first-hand. All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a normal teenager named Paul Baumer who went from a typical school in Germany, to the front lines of World War 1. As we read the story, we could feel the many changes that Paul experienced, from just arriving at the front, all the way until his death. Two of many horrific changes that Paul experienced are the

Max was Jewish and he had no power to do anything, he was unable to walk down a street without being noticed as ‘Jewish filth’ or ‘Jude’. Living in Nazi Germany and being a Jew was like wearing a flashing sign that said ‘Jew’ in neon letters. His life had started out with many difficulties. When he was just a baby, his father passed away in World

Max propels Liesel’s inner journey in becoming conscious of the strength provided by words, encouraging a broader perspective of society. Liesel learns the power of words to provide solace in this scene, where Liesel consoles Max on his second night at the Hubermans. The book held by Max suggests a layer of protection and indicates the value of the item to the persona. Hence demonstrating the value of words in providing a sense of safety to the character. The book serves as a symbol of his life, representing a means of protection as it allowed the character to survive the German attack and find the Hubermans. Max’s possession of the book rather than Liesel, implies Max’s role in propelling Liesel’s journey in understanding the power of words

There are qualities many people strive to have.Some of these people are real,but some are just fictional characters.Max Vandenberg has almost all of the qualities most people want.Max,a 22-year-old Jew that lives during the holocaust,is a fictional character in The Book Thief.You would expect Max to be scared and shy,but really he is very brave.He never asked the Hubermann’s to give shelter and food,but they did anyway.He is very loyal,to the Hubermann’s and to the Jewish race.He is also damaged due to the losses he has experienced,but he is very brave because of that.In all,Max is brave and loyal,but also very damaged.

Finding way to pass the time while in hiding he decides this, “During that week, Max had cut out a collection of pages from Mein Kampf and painted over them in white”(223) He is displaying that Hitler’s words does not concern him any longer with destroying Hitler’s book and making a book of his own struggle. So forth into the book,Max puts together a book with sketches and tells Rosa to give it to Liesel when she is ready. Max wrote, “Liesel-I almost scribbled this story out. I thought you might be too old for such a tale,but maybe no one is.

Consuming Traits of a Lone Man Fisher Amelie once stated, “Greed is a strange, strange sin. All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire energy, acquire attention.” The running mantra is “I want, I want, I want” but that quickly turns into “I need, I need, I need.” Amelie realized that many people are consumed by greed and lose focus of the more important things in life.

My overall reaction of the book's conclusion is pretty good. I turned out happy. Spoiler: America does make it through the first part of the competition. I'm glad that she does make it through though because Prince Maxon Schreave and America would be a very cute couple. I think America deserves to win because the girl who wins this competition, gets make perks such as her family will be generously compensated, she becomes the princess of Illéa which also means she is part of royalty. For the most part, it does make sense that she could win the competition because the front cover of the book is a girl in a big dress. Plus why would there be a whole series about America if she wouldn't win the competition? I also think the ending is good because

I think Mr. Vandamn because he was always not happy about things. And because he was not the best person to keep a secret with. Mr.Vandamn was like sometimes the person to be the outlook person.

Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is an autobiography written by the NSDAP leader, Adolf Hitler. In it, he describes his background, childhood, education and military plans, and goals to make Germany a superior country. Hitler didn’t believe in racial mixing, which is why he strived to force out millions of people, most of which were Jewish or Polish. Even though the ideas within the book technically sent Max to a concentration camp, he believes that it saved his life because Hans used it to hide information that helped Max reach Himmel Street. “In front of him, he read from the copy of Mein Kampf. His savior. Sweat was swimming out of his hands. Fingermarks clutched the book." I think that the author included these events to make the reader feel the