He turns it into a life changing opportunity for them both. His discovery of the book, hidden beneath her mattress, inspires all their reading and writing lessons. So, while The Gravedigger's Handbook represents great sadness and loss, it also represents great friendship and learning to read She recites a passage from the book in class when she isn't able to read the assigned material. Poor Liesel gets teased, of course.
Then she becomes a bully for a few moments. In fact, she almost kills Ludwig. Walking home with Rudy afterwards, Liesel admits that her reaction was driven by all the suffering, humiliation, and loss she's been experiencing especially by the loss of her brother, Werner.
This realization helps her to not fall into violent and bullying ways—which would be easy to do in an atmosphere where violence and bullying are the norm. We don't know much about the actual contents of The Shoulder Shrug , Liesel's second stolen book, other than that it features a Jewish protagonist. This is why the novel is sentenced to burn in Hitler's birthday book burning in Molching. Somehow, this book is too strong, or too wet, or too lucky to burn up quickly.
It's only smoldering when Liesel steals it. The timing is important here. Liesel steals it from the bonfire after getting confirmation from Hans that Hitler is likely behind the disappearance of her parents—not to mention the poverty that led to Werner's death.
Stealing the book is a way for her get revenge on her new sworn enemy, Adolf Hitler. Sure she wants a book to read, but she also wants to take back some of what Hitler is destroying. Pretty heady stuff for an eleven-year-old she's eleven now. Stealing The Shoulder Shrug also opens the doors to a whole word of books. If Ilsa Hermann, the mayor's wife, hadn't seen Liesel steal the book from the fire, she might never have invited Liesel into her library.
Liesel might have been hard-up for books. Books aside, Liesel's relationship with Ilsa is complicated, but, we have to say, the woman proves to be a true friend. Most importantly, perhaps, Liesel's theft of The Shoulder Shrug "inspire[s] Hans Hubermann to come up with a plan to help the Jewish fist fighter" That Jewish fist fighter is Max.
Liesel's very special friendship with Max comes to define her in many ways. It certainly makes her a sympathetic character, but more importantly, it helps her see the difference between right and wrong. She should be reading Mein Kampf. He began dictating it to fellow prisoner Rudolph Hess Hitler's Deputy in when they were in Landsberg prison after a failed attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic.
For a detailed discussion of the book, click here. Liesel neither reads nor steals this book, but it's incredibly important to who she is. For one thing, she's living inside it, so to speak. Hitler has made his words come to life, and they shape Liesel's reality. Second, when Liesel is reading The Shoulder Shrug in Hans Junior's presence, he speaks the lines quoted above even though he doesn't know it's a rescued book about a Jew. He realizes that Hitler's book can be used as a shield, a disguise; it can be used for the exact opposite of its intended purpose.
Holding Mein Kampf in his hand is the best way for Max to deflect suspicion. So, for Liesel, this book definitely means Max, and Max's life Liesel learns that kind words can be used to combat hateful ones. These two books are about friendship and the power of words to make a difference.
Although this knowledge doesn't keep her family and friends on Himmel Street from dying in bomb blasts, it pushes Liesel to act as courageously as she can. These three books also point to the development of Liesel's secret life during most of her time on Himmel Street.
The fact that she was able to keep these books—and Max—a secret until she finally tells Rudy, after Max has been captured is a testament to her courage and strength. The Word Shaker also alludes to Liesel's own calling: shaking words. She shakes them from books, from her own lips, and from the lips of others. It reminds her to plant and shake words of friendship and love, especially where hate is thriving.
Or trying to believe in him. She is no longer blindly. The last time she saw her brother. The last time she saw her mother. It is also ironic that she takes a book from the book burning where others were burning a pile of books to show respect for Hitler and his ideas.
Not reading books also basically drove him insane because he killed them by bashing their head in. In the past, dictators censored authors. Stalin burnt books and authors of those books in Russia. When Adolf Hitler was chancellor he burnt the books that he disagreed with in the streets of Germany. These actions that the leaders of these countries left the people in the dark, just like in Fahrenheit by Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit is about a dystopian society that burns books and hides the truth from people.
This showed how crazy and unheard of that something different- Kira- survived and was still living after her trial Likewise, the timing of the story was right because at one point in America, only the rich had running water and the poor still had to get water from outside.
This book is set at a time similar to that time, although the location is different. Liesel was quiet but then made friends with other kids on her street. Liesel soon began to learn to read and wanted more books to read so she began to steal them. She made a Jewish friend who she loved to be with, but he soon left their house because he thought they would be better off without him.
Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Characters Character List. Death The narrator of the story. Liesel Meminger The protagonist of the story. Michael dies in Russia. Frau Diller Owner of the candy store. Arthur Berg The first leader of the apple-stealing gang. Walter Kugler The man who helps Max escape. Walter is brave like Max. Viktor Chemmel The second leader of the apple-stealing gang. Reinhold Zucker The man who trades seats with Hans on the bus, saving his life. Next section Liesel Meminger.
He wasted no time in losing control of the bike, sliding across the ice, and lying facedown in the road. Liesel is starting to adapt to Nazi, Germany. She is now confident enough with her family and her situation that if she got in trouble for stealing her foster parents would not send her away. Even when the Hubermanns thought everything in life was starting to stable out, a promise Hans made to a Jew in World War 1 comes back to him.
Hans promised the guy who saved his life that he would do anything he ever needed help with. Years later, the man ended up holding Hans up to his word and had the Hubermann family take in his son Max, who was a Jew.
Even though Max could end up causing her and her new family to die, she still wanted to become friends with him. She finally built up the courage to talk to Max for the first time after five days. Liesel began to talk to Max more hearing the terrible things Hitler had done to people. At this moment, Liesel is telling Papa, otherwise known as Hans, that she hates Hitler. She feels as if Hitler was the reason that everything was taken away from her.
She was confident enough in her thoughts that she could tell Papa what she thought. If she thought of hating the Fubrer before, she would not have told anyone else because of the lack of courage she had. She felt as if she could not get close to people because the two people she had loved, were taken away from her. All of this causes the reader to conclude that Liesel is starting to get comfortable with people.
She also begins to accept that her life will not turn out the way she plans, but she will do what she can in order to make it better. Everyone she loved and cared about died and she had nowhere to turn to. Instead of giving up, she kept fighting which makes her an extremely brave character.
Being a kind-hearted, brave person, Liesel decided to go with her best friend Rudy and leave small pieces of bread on the ground for starving Jews. There was the trace of a grin on her face as she and Rudy Steiner, her best friend, handed out the pieces of bread on the road… The first soldier did not see the bread- he was not hungry- but the first Jew saw it.
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