The Book Thief: A Short Story

The novel The Book Thief takes place in a town called Molching, Germany between 1939 and 1943. Death narrates the story. Liesel Meminger, the main character is dealing from the death of her brother and being separated from her mother. Liesel is made fun of in school because she can’t read. She is ashamed that she can’t read so Hans teaches her how to read. The book she learns to read from is a book that she took from her brother’s burial called The Grave Digger's Handbook. She would have nightmares so Hans would sit with her and play his accordion. Liesel then becomes accustom to Hans presence because he makes her feel safe. The Nazi Party's destroyed Jewish shops and yellow stars have already been painted on doors and windows, Liesel and Rudy are forced to join the Band of German Girls and Hitler Youth. Liesel sees a book that survives a fire made of enemy propaganda and hides it under her shirt.A Jew named Max Vandenburg needs a place to hide and Max’s father saved Hans life during World War I and taught him to play the accordion. Hans promised Frau that if she needed something she could contact him. Hans hides Max in his basement and sends the key to his house inside a book written by Hitler. After Max arrives Liesel is curious and scared about the man in her basement. She realizes that they have a lot in common. They both have nightmares and lost their families. They also both share the feeling of safety that comes from Hans accordion. Liesel describes the weather to max, brings him snow, and delivers presents to the foot of his bed when he gets sick. She continues to play with Rudy and go to school, also while

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, takes place in 1940s Nazi Germany in the small town of Molching. The main character, Liesel Meminger, takes on a role as the foster child of Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She also meets a young boy named Rudy Steiner, who goes on to be her best friend and lover. In the book, Liesel faces many challenges big and small. From hiding a Jew in the basement to a thieving lifestyle, Liesel has to learn to overcome all of life's problems. Through all of this, she is supported by her foster father Hans Hubermann who is caring to people he barely knows, intelligence despite his lack of education, and generosity even when he has little for himself.

Liesel most definitely could have trusted Rudy with the secret of having Max hidden in her basement. Rudy was clearly Liesel’s best friend and partner in crime when Liesel was doing her acts of thievery stealing the books from the mayor’s wife bookself. The devotion to Liesel Rudy also had was strong and I believe Liesel could have trusted Rudy.

In The Book Thief, a work of historical fiction, written by Markus Zusak introduces the main character Liesel Meminger, the reader starts to see how she keeps having many conflicts but always stays positive. Liesel has many conflicts, for example her brother dies early in the book and that shapes the way she is. Later on Liesel steals books and that makes her happy because the first book she stole was the grave digger's handbook and that is how she remembers her brother. Liesel steals and reads books this is how she finds happiness with all the bad things going on around her. In the end of the book most of the people she loves die and it is hard for her to find happiness again. The author uses the setting and point of view to express theme and to make the reader feel sympathy; He uses this because with the theme of finding light in the darkness, deaths perception, and the setting of Germany makes the theme clearer.

Historically, people have used literacy to obtain political power. In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it is evident that books, reading, and words themselves represent power for different characters in different ways. Close analysis of Liesel Meminger and Max Vandenburg reveals that power can be achieved through literacy in a context where literacy is severely limited.

Liesel Meminger is the daughter of Paula Meminger. She is also the sister of late Warren Meminger. Consequently, she steals the first book in the novel, called The Gravedigger's Handbook. Therefore, Death gave her the nickname of “ the book thief” before us knowing that she would become “the book thief”. Liesel Meminger is the hardworking, book-thieving, kind-hearted protagonist of The Book Thief. She loves books so much that she steals them, even before knowing how to read. All of this started because stealing books reminds her of Warren Meminger. This is even she bonds more with Hans Hubermann, her foster father, dedicates his time to teach her how to read. We might be asking, why hasn’t she gotten an education at the age of 10. The answer is not as clear as others, but it definitely has to do with Liesel father’s communist affiliations. He was part of the German Communist Party, that was popular when Hitler took over. This is also the reason why she had to be fostered.

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The book I read was “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. The title is called “The Book Thief” because the main character named Liesel does not know how to read so she steals books and her best friend Rudy calls her a book Theif in chapter 42.

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it,” said comedian Roseanne Barr. A leader can overpower people; she can take control of what one can or cannot do, but only oneself can control how she treats others. In The Book Thief, Hitler is overpowering the Jews; Liesel, who is living with a foster family, and her family shelters Max, a Jewish man, during the Holocaust. Marcus Zusak’s characters, Liesel, Rosa, and Hans, explain their struggle of staying true to their core beliefs during Hitler’s reign in Nazi, Germany, showing the importance of making the correct decisions even when faced with a difficult situation.

The Book Thief is about a young German girl named Liesel Meminger as she goes through life while living in Germany in 1939. Liesel and her foster parents live a normal life on 33 Himmel Street. There is only one difference between their family and the others, they are hiding Max Vandenburg (a Jewish man) in their basement during the time of the Holocaust. This story, narrated by Death follows the life of Liesel from her first step into 33 Himmel Street, until the day she died in Sydney, Australia.

Death states that, “I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both” (Zusak 491). This book shows us human doing things that weren’t even imaginable before this point. Many people give into ideas that were lies. But, we also watch a few people go out of their way and sacrifice everything for a man they barely even know. They do everything they can to keep him safe and alive. They work harder, the get another job, and they even steal. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, death examines the ugliness and the beauty of humans.

Human mentality is always changing due to emotions and expressions. From that in many literature, it demonstrates to the reader how powerful certain perceptions can be and truly the importance of it. In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, he cleverly displays important insights that teach readers the impact of the three main attributes in the book. Set during WWII in Nazi Germany where a young girl is building into a breathtaking character that creates an influence throughout adolescents who is reading the book. Escort by other characters whom adds depth to the story by contributing to the overall insight is making a revolutionary novel in society today. The three main insights the characters conduct is perseverance, friendship and sacrifice.

The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak takes place in Nazi Germany between 1939 through 1944. This book is about a little girl named Liesel Meminger. Her mother and her brother Werner are traveling on a train traveling to a town named Molching. On the way to Molching her brother dies. At his burial, Liesel steals her first book and this leads to her understanding the importance of knowing how to read. Throughout this book, Zusak uses a chaotic setting, developers interesting characters, creates an intriguing plot conflict, symbols and themes.

As the Book Thief comes to an end, a new book thief is revealed. It is death, or the narrator that has been following Liesel around for most of her life. The book she steals is called the Book Thief and it was by Liesel Meminger. Death finds this book being thrown in the back of a garbage truck, but she saves it. The book got there when it was forgotten on the road after Liesel saw her mama, papa, and Rudy lying there dead. The book was picked up by a man and thrown in the back of the truck. The whole book that was just read was death reading the book she had stolen and adding what she had seen during some of the parts. Liesel wrote the book as an autobiography and told of how she had stolen, her life, but when death tells the story it

I think that the place where they died and how they died is very important because it repeats items that represent time. I found this important because the author likes to repeat time and at first I didn’t realize how significant this was to the story. This shows that symbolizes in your book might mean more than just a object or a name. It can means that the book is about a certain thing or it can show you the theme.