The Book Thief Monologue Analysis

8. Hans’ Compassion Liesel witnesses Hans trying to give bread to a Jew. Not only does Hans and the Jew get whipped but now the Nazi’s become suspicious of Hans and search his house. Max is no longer safe in the basement and must leave. Liesel now has another loved one taken away from her.

Today is the day. Today is finally the day that I am to be released from the psychiatric hospital since that day when I passed out. I know last time you heard from me, I was broken and unhappy and had hate for the world, but i'm in the best state i could ever be, I really am I tell you. Oh how excited I am to see old Phoebe. I haven’t seen her since i’ve been admitted into this wing of the hospital. Oh I wonder how much she has grown< She was so intelligent and pure, nothing could ever compromise her. So I hope nothing hasn’t. I was retrieving most of my belongings before I left, when I happened to run into old Ms. Patty. This was my nurse and oh, how lovely she is. “Oh hello Holden, leaving so soon ?” she said so to me with great compassion. Naturally I said, “Why yes sadly, I must go on with myself and enjoy the world, perhaps find myself a woman”, I said this suave as hell, I tell you.

Life flips itself upside down by someone hearing or seeing a seemingly irrelevant thing. One person’s small action greatly impacts someone else. One thing leads to another, and because of something small, the current world changes. Kristallnacht, during WWII, remains as an excellent example of this. An assassination leads to this horrendous night, which in turn leads to a rise in anti-semitic behaviors.

Since The Book Thief is a historical fiction text, the fictitious characters interact in a realistic WWII setting in Germany. Three characters in the book, Liesel, Rudy and, Death develop their identities within the parameters of the Nazi-controlled society. However, if Liesel, Rudy and, Death were characters in today's society, their lives would be different.

Forty years is a long time, long enough to deprive a person of any connection to the real world. I mean those cars, machines, children crying… I just couldn’t get used to them. Sometime I feel I’m standing in the eye of hurricane, the noises whipping around me like a gale. It’s a terrible thing to live in fear. All I’m doing is just lying here, smoking, unable to sleep. I look up and see old Brooks’s world from the beam, he gave up. That makes me more scared. He couldn’t cope with the real world, so he decided to release himself totally. Well, I guess I have become institutionalized like Brooks as, I can’t feel

First, Rudy expresses his dominant characteristic of confidence in the Book Thief. Rudy’s confidence explains his actions towards antagonist emotions. Rudy says, “He’s got a problem, sir-”(269). Rudy’s confidence illustrates his encouragement to step up for Tommy Muller against Franz Deutscher . Rudy shows the readers that he is able to stand up for his friends.Rudy demonstrates that he believes in protecting others than just worrying

This strong bond built between both father and son has truly benefited them both and helped them to survive the Holocaust and its’ horrible conditions in both emotional support and physical support. They both look out for each other, stick together, and confide in each other. For example, when Wiesel’s father became sick, he looked almost dead when he was asleep. A man told the others who were throwing corpses out to throw the father out as well. Wiesel, once indifferent to all the other bodies being thrown out, now states, “I woke from my apathy just

Imagine you are a poorly fed citizen, who is living in Germany, during the World War II, what would you be doing, probably stealing something to fill up your tummy right? It is true that at the economically unstable period mentioned in the book, thievery is understandable, anything could be stolen and anyone could be a thief. However, for those who have read and understand the book thoroughly would acknowledge the importance of Liesel's’ thievery characteristic.Markus Zusak, in The Book Thief characterizes Liesel as a thief to compare her theft with mutiny against Nazi Germany, other rebellious German people and the development of her personal identity.

First of all, Hans Hubermann feels immense guilt for the death of his friend Erik Vandenburg. When Liesel's foster father, Hans Hubermann, was a young man The Great War broke out. He

Markus Zusak, the author of The Book Thief, displays several ways to help readers analyze the story. He uses diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax which allows his audience to master the content in the story.

The two brothers want to fight the Nazis like their father is doing in Africa but they’re obviously underage. The two brothers are home alone the majority of the time since their mom works at the munitions factory, this leads them to spend hours exploring the outdoors. Whilst they're playing make-believe war, the young boys step foot on a military base. They are confronted by soldiers who seem very secretive, the Braun siblings think that the military base is actually occupied by Nazis. This piqued their curiosity even more so they try to gain more intel, they start talking to Jack’s boss, the journalist and WWI ex-German soldier. After gaining more information about the Camp they decide to sneak into it. When they are laying on the floor they get caught by a soldier. The brothers are brought in the camp and they have to sign a contract to never disclose any information about Camp X. The boys meet to very important figures in the war, Big Bill and Little

In Germany, boys and girls got split apart, he got separated from his mother, in selection they were split up from the strong to the weak, strong went on the left weak went on the right and he was depressed him and his dad never had the best relationship, but when they realized they only had each other they appreciate each other more and became

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a moving, award-winning story that follows the life of a German girl, named Liesel, during World War 2.

Friedrich was about to succeed with his plan when two of the Nazi soldiers recognized him, and Friedrich was deported, however, luckily his deportation time was near the end of the Nazi times anyways. Mike and Frankie were trying not to be sorted into different foster homes, but the owner of Bishops, the foster home, keeps trying to send Frankie away from Mike. They end up together at the residence of a wealthy lady. Ivy misses her brother dearly while he was away in the army, but becomes depressed when she finds out that her brother was injured during the war. When he came home, Ivy was very thankful she had met her brother at home not as a demented soldier boy, but as a hero with a battle scar. He had lost two of his fingers in combat and had to resign in the

I didn't know she was sick. I knew she was old, but I didn't think she was dying. How could I have known? I should have known, I’m 12, i'm older now. How could I have been so foolish. I took away an old dying woman's happiness. I still ain’t sorry. No, I’m not. Mrs. Dubose had no excuse for saying those things to Scout and I. She deserved what she got, especially after saying those things about Atticus. Well, she deserved to have (insrt flower nme here) destroyed but not her fits. Poor, mean, Mrs. Dubose was so sick, she didn't deserve to be sick. No one does. Why would she give me that flower? Why was it me who had to read to her? Why? Why? The worst part is that I almost enjoyed reading to her. Maybe it wasn't that I enjoyed reading to her,