Collective Violence In The Book Thief

1. a. External conflict – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, tells the story of a little girl Liesel, who is given up by her mother to live with Hans and Rosa Huberman during the time of World War II. When they take in and hide a Jewish man named Max, she quickly learns of great violence and prejudice of the outside world, and she must face the dangers, hate, and death from the war era caused by Adolf Hitler at such a young age. b. Internal conflict- Imperfect Spiral by Debbie Levy, is a book about a teenage girl named Danielle who takes a summer job babysitting a little boy named Humphrey, and one day when she was watching him he ran into oncoming traffic to retrieve a football and died on her watch.

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.

11 million people died during the Holocaust. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger loses many of her loved ones. At the beginning of the book, Liesel’s brother dies of illness on a train, and her mother is taken away by the Nazis for being a communist. After losing everyone she ever cared about, the story drags Liesel into a humble household where she discovers her passion for books, and her love for her family and friends. However, her loved ones are once again torn away from her as Himmel Street, the street she lives on, gets bombed. She loses her foster parents, her best friend, and everyone else she came to know. As a result of these adverse events, Liesel’s innocence was stolen from her. In The Book Thief, loss plays an essential role in developing characters, especially Liesel. After losing Werner, her brother, Liesel is plagued by

In the book “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, the story describes Holden Caulfield as a mystery man that a rReader would have to find clues to discover the hidden truth behind him. Holden is afraid to go into the adult world and he wishes he can stay in his childhood world, because Holden wants to avoid the adults world phoniness and it's painful for holden to grow up; knowing thats he’s been through so much as a boy and how he has heard so many lies growing up.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is about a young girl named Liesel who goes through a series of emotional traumatizing experiences that involves in her losing those she really loves and cares for. An example of this was at the very beginning of the book when her brother dies from a fever and her mother leaves her to be adopted. The main character Liesel goes through a series of positive and negative events that molded her to becoming the character she becomes by the end of the novel. One of whose series of events that is relevant and also contributes towards molding Liesel’s character would be when she becomes an orphan in the beginning of the book, learns how to read, and her reunion with Max.

When times get tough, it is courage that helps one survive. In the story, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger must deal with the death of her younger brother and the painful abandonment of her mother while she tries to settle into her new life with her foster parents. Her new mama, Rosa, shows love in a harsh way, but she develops a deeply close relationship with her gentle, patient papa, Hans and her best friend, Rudy. After secretly stealing a book (24) and learning to read from Hans (64), she develops a love of books and the power of words. Liesel, Hans, and Rudy, show great courage while trying to manage everyday life in dangerous Nazi, Germany during World War II. They show the reader that

The way that the modern world works is to encourage people to no longer be silent on issues, but to take action. This call to action also breeds anger and hatred in the hearts of those whom the issues affect. Society, as a result of this anger brewing, has taken a turn for the worst. Demonstrations that start out as “peaceful” have started to become more and more violent. For instance, the Dallas Police Shooting, is an example of hatred overtaking peace.

The developmental stage of a young child’s life is very crucial and can be impacted by the media. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger is a young girl living in a very important part of Germany’s history, the Second World War. Liesel’s childhood unfolds and develops against the backdrop of a time when words, books specifically were used for power and control. Liesel is someone who has a love for reading and, as such, books become very important to her, not only for her education but for her rebellion and discovering her true identity. Throughout the novel, books become a crucial symbol used to convey the desires and discovery of identity for the main character as her childish ignorance changes to her mature adulthood.

Although violence is one of the unfavourable social behaviours that is surely involved with a individual. Over 70 % of violence in the United States plays a very strong role in daily lives. Today the rate of violence is increasing faster than ever; the more people realize the truth the more they are becoming aware of what is happening around them. Our best example would be Syria: not having any knowledge on what is happening and then getting involved makes it hard for me to handle the truth in how much violence humans are facing over. Violence has only one way stop and that is for our social group to understand what matters the most.

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.

By 1947, over 30% of Germany’s population was unemployed. Since 505, 000 Jewish individuals lived in Germany before the holocaust, less money was made, and the population suffered, “How does one mourn for six million people who died? How many candles does one light? How many prayers does one recite? Do we know how to remember the victims, their solitude, their helplessness? They left us without a trace, and we are their trace,” (Elie Wiesel). Germany had no way of saving their economy, or repairing it after the execution of that many people. Germany felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of the people’s lives, also known as a totalitarian Government. The Holocaust also cost the German war effort; since a large portion of their population was exterminated. The oppression and discrimination of Jewish people harmed the war effort, by costing more lives, harming Germany’s economy even more than it already had. Only 200,000 of six million Jewish individuals survived the Holocaust, and were able to return to their lives. Due to the decrease of population, Germany’s foreign exchange policy greatly declined, and raw materials such as metals, jewelry, stones, pearls, and gold were of no use to the broken economy. The Jewish people also constituted a large part of key strata of society; essential constituents of economic and political development for Germany’s future. The decrease in

1. Conflicts: person vs. person/solution from the novel • After Christopher knew that his father killed Wellington, he was scared of him. Christopher ran away from his father. • Christopher’s parents got into an argument because of Christopher’s behaviors. Christopher’s parents separated.

There are multiples conflicts in this film. Let’s talk about Human v. Society. Ricci is trying to find a job to support his family post-World War II. Although he does everything he can every single day to find a job, it’s very difficult to find one. Once a job is available, he has to lie to obtain the job.

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and genocide that targeted the European Jews from 1933 to 1945. These actions were implemented by the Nazi’s and their new regime which resulted in the liquidation of six million innocent Jews and other small minorities. In 1929 Germany was suffering from the great depression. This was caused by the reparations they had to pay due to their defeat and damage they had caused in WW1. This social upheaval gave Hitler and his party the opportunity to brainwash and convince the people of Germany that he could ‘make Germany great again’ whilst spreading the message about his new ideal, the ‘Aryan race’. As people began to support his actions he gradually introduced the idea of the eradication of the Jews, which began to be known as ‘The Final Solution’.

this war. By 1945 Germans concluded that killing a variety of Jews would help Germany be less populated.