The Book Thief Task 1: Literary Elements 1) Setting: The story takes place in a small fictional town of Molching, just outside of Munich, Germany. 2) Tone: Desperately Hopeful 3) Style: Foreshadowing 4) Theme: Love, War, Courage, Suffering. 5) Point of View: First Person 6) Brief Description of the Main Characters: - Liesel Meminger She is a hardworking, book-loving, kind person. She loves books so much, she steals them. Even though she doesn't know how to read, and doesn't have much time on her hands, in the beginning at least. She is known as the book thief. - Rudy Steiner He is Liesel's lemon haired sidekick. He is ten year old boy with bony legs, sharp teeth, gangly blue eyes, and hair the color of a lemon. Rudy wants to become …show more content…
He had been struggling during his life. He was a strong fist fighter. - Hans Hubermann Hans is Liesel's foster father and one of the great loves of her life. He is a really nice guy. He plays the accordion most of the time. Especially to Leisel when she wakes up screaming. - Rosa Hubermann She is Liesel's foster mother. She loves Max and takes care of him. Rosa and Liesel don't have a good relationship in the beginning, but then it gets better. She punishes Leisel by hitting her with a wooden spoon. 7) Small Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War 2, Death relates the story of Liesel - a young German girl whose book-stealing and storytelling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man (Max) that they are hiding, as well as their …show more content…
14). Compound Sentence -"Had the apprentice been reading the complete works of Goethe or any other such luminary, that was what would have sat in front of them" (pg. 65). -"It sounded like an instrument, or the notes of running feet" (pg. 135). -"He was educated well enough to get by, but he was certainly no writer, and no artist" (pg. 223). Complex Sentence:-"Curiosity got the better of me, and I resigned myself to stay as long as my schedule allowed, and I watched" (pg. 7). -"He remained shrouded in his uniform as the graying light arm-wrestled the sky" (pg. 11). -"Liesel assumed he was there to make sure she wouldn't run away or to force her inside if she gave them any trouble"(pg.27). - Clauses Subordinate Clause:-"If her mother loved her, why leave her on someone else’s doorstep" (pg. 32). -"Usually it was like spillage-cold and heavy, slippery and gray-but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes" (pg. 45). -"No one seemed to know the real name that belonged to him, or at least if they did, they never used it. (pg.
1a. I think she was justified because Liesel was using the families money to make contact with the woman that left her behind.
Kerber illustrates the development of the economy and expansion of land and opportunity which created a working-class him to the federalist’s distaste. The amount of land for industries and agriculture from Jeffersonian expansion of North American created a wider divide between Europe and the Americas in order to become independent from Europe affairs. The technology and expansion had developed a herd of working class Americans in the colonies. However, was poor and the federalist believes that the poor one’s conduct could be unfavorable towards the government and national identity. The federalist stated by Kerber was unlikely for a person of a higher economic standard to rebel against the government in which it had the means to get rich along with their influence in political matters was seen more valuable than those of a poor economic stature had more reason to start a rebellion against the stability of the national government. Kerber gives a persistent view of their opportunity as federalist and their success with political independence.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak tells the story of Liesel Meminger and her life during World War II. It is told from the point of view of Death through his interactions near her and others in her life. Zusak uses imagery, language, and tone to share his theme of the beauty of humans.
The author achieves this by using Death as character but, also as an immortal and all knowing narrator. Zusak uses the omniscient Death to present a character's guilt giving a more objective look into a character's guilt. On the other hand the first person view would give the reader details that wouldn’t produce an accurate showing of the characters remorse. Instead the first person view would be clouded by emotions and filled with the thoughts of the character in the moment instead of the important details need to showcase survivor's guilt. For example when Death tells us about Liesel's nightmare on page 36, “She would wake up...screaming and drowning in the flood of sheets...the bed that was meant for her brother…”. The authors use of Death as a narrator reveals Leisel being haunted by her brothers death, but if it was Liesel's point of view it would be filled with her emotions at the time which doesn't help develop the survivors guilt which comes from more of a contemplative space. This is illustrated again when Liesel kisses Rudy’s dead body on page 536, “She leaned down and...Liesel kissed her best friend...true on his lips.” This helps establish the survivor's guilt by showing how haunted Liesel was by the fact that she never kissed Rudy who tried kissing her multiple times while alive. However if this event wasn’t in Death’s point of view survivor's
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.
Name and significance – Rudy Steiner, Rudy was one of Liesel’s best friends and he might have saved her life when she wanted to follow Max after she and Max had been whipped by the Germans.
He is there for Liesel during times of fear and uncertainty such as her nightmares or other personal, emotional conflicts. In short, he is what Liesel’s mother used to represent to her. Another major detail is how Hans teaches Liesel how to read. He conducts midnight and afternoon lessons with her in the basement of their house or on the banks of the Amper River. “Unofficially, it was called the midnight class, even though it commenced at around two in the morning”. This was a big part of Liesel’s young life. Her passion for books was made possible by the kindness and love of her foster father, who took the time to personally teaching her using what little materials were available. Obvious through his involvement with Liesel’s education, he wants the best for her and truly loves her dearly. This is especially shown in Chapter 16 where Hans tells Liesel that, when he saw how Liesel was awaiting any sort of communication from her real mother, he had almost resorted to writing a fake letter from her in the hopes that it would take a burden off of her young shoulders. "You know,
Upon arriving at the home of her foster parents, housepainter Hans Hubermann and his wife Rosa, Liesel finds it difficult to adjust. She is haunted by nightmares about her mother and dead brother. She eventually develops a bond with Hans, who comes to her every night and stays with her until she is able to fall sleep again, Hans, upon noticing “The Grave Digger's Handbook” tucked under Liesel's mattress, decides to take advantage of the sleepless hours he spends with Liesel each night by teaching her how to read and write. Rosa Hubermann, whose personality is much coarser than Hans', takes Liesel under her wing in her own way by having her help with her job of washing and delivering laundry for other households. Shortly after
Starting off the reader is introduced to the narrator of the book, Death. Death assures the readers that he is not as bad as most perceive him to be. Death is impacted by himself which is how Death meets the main character Liesel. “I had already made the most elementary of mistakes….I waverd. I buckled--I became interested. In the girl” (7). Death previous to this passage explains that he uses colors to distract himself from survivors. Death meets Liesel for the first time and is interested in her enough that he lingers for a bit. He sees her on two more occasions. “I wanted to stop. To crouch down….I did not crouch down. I did not speak. Instead, I watched her a while. When she was able to move, I
through, as Liesel made friends, like her best friend and unknown lover, Rudy Steiner. As Liesel
After losing her mother and her brother, Liesel’s life and identity is changed drastically many times. It is through books that she discovers and becomes comfortable with this change. When she first meets Hans and Rosa Hubermann, her new foster parents, she does not wish to speak with them or get to know them. However, once Hans discovers Liesel with the book she stole when her brother was buried, The Gravedigger’s Manual, they bond over Hans teaching Liesel to read. Liesle describes the first time her and Hans have a lesson in the middle of the night: “She had done this at school, in the kindergarten class, but this time was better. … It was nice to watch Papa’s hand as he wrote the words and slowly constructed the primitive sketches” (Zusak
The Ku Klux Klan originated in the South and spread across the nation; during the early twentieth century, the KKK had approximately four million members throughout the country. Their members occupied many political influences in some states such as Oregon, Indiana, and Colorado. In the summer of 1868, Klan achieved part of their goal which was to defeat Southern Blacks; but didn’t succeed that well in carrying out their social aim during the reconstruction era, however; they later spread throughout Georgia. Then again, a Georgia Republican organizer was killed on March 31st, 1868; and because of his death, KKK organized terrorist crime became noticeable; to the extent that their violent actions spread across Georgia’s Black Belt, and the state
The Book Thief, is a Death narrated novel by Markus Zusak. The story takes place in Nazi Germany, 1939, where Liesel Meminger arrives on Himmel Street to start a new life with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She lives to a very old age and when Death finally comes to take her away, he wants to tell Liesel about beauty and brutality. But what could he tell her about beauty and brutality that she didn’t know, the Book Thief had lived through it all. The time she saw Max marching to Dachau, the time Rudy went into the Amper River to save The Whistler, and the final moments she spent with Mama. Liesel Meminger’s life had always represent beauty in the wake of brutality.
Effectively, his deliberate use of syntax creates a structure in his essay which immerses the reader into the passage and allows his message to be conveyed. Often in the essay, he adopts compound-complex sentence structures to maximize his level of description and to fully establish the imagery he intends to create. Moreover, when he establishes depictions of action, motion, and speed, he creates considerably longer compound-complex sentences; using five or more clauses and at least one dash to thoroughly depict action, to eliminate any sense of pause, and to fully intrigue his readers. Such a usage of syntax is also parallel to when he writes that “...it was filled with motion, speed.” His lack of “and” but rather the word “speed” preceding a comma further represents the elimination of a sense of pause and his use of syntax in order to create a sense of speed and intensity. In the last paragraph, he continues his extensive use of compound-complex sentences and he suddenly slows down and ends his final part on shorter complex sentences.
The book becomes a foreshadowing of the future. As the story progresses we see that her town experiences their first air raid. They have to leave behind Max. As the air raid progresses Liesel fears losing Max, and begins to read out loud in the shelter. Liesel fears losing yet another close family member.