Summer Assignment, Post 2

Liesel reading to Max 

Hey, it’s me again. Well things in the book thief are heating up, with nightly air raids and a hidden Jew in their basement; things for the Hubermann family have never been more dangerous. They feel so many things at the arrival of Max, the son of Hans Hubermann old war friend. Liesel wants to help Max because she is a kind person and because she feels loyal to her foster parents, but with that are all so the fear of being caught with a Jew in the heart of Nazism. There is also the curiosity of the man that all your life you have been told to hate and the anger of helping the enemy when you yourself are just getting by.  This all goes through Liesel head but she acts on the better half, helping hide Max and feed him, and talk to him. This shows that she is a good curious person at heart, which is also supported by her need of books.  She risks her life for them, by saving them form fires, and steals them for people how (in her eyes) are on fit to own them. Even death, the narrator of this story, says “She (Liesel) need them, the books, and she would do what was needed for them.”

Quote from Death

                This book is full of quotes form death like the one above. The author uses the little quote from death to add humor or to clarify situations or define forging words. He can just stop the story to tell you what you need to know. It’s one of the few books that I have read that have something like that so just like to put that out there.

                Now on to the one of the important things about the book: theme. If the books don’t have a good message to get across, then there is no point in writing the story. The theme in the Book Thief is (in my option) the theme is no matter how bad something feels, it can always be made better.  I mean, look a Liesel.  She is forced to go to rich people houses to collect the cloths to be washed so the rich people don’t have the heart to fire them. She makes this better by visiting the mayors’ library and talking to her friends. She makes it better.

This finishes off my second summer blog post over theme, complexity of characters, and book structure. Hope you enjoyed