Liesel Reflection

Although Liesel is hesitant when she arrives, Hans Hubermann is comforting and forms a bond with her by teaching her how to roll cigarettes and to read. On the other hand, Rosa comes across as a brutal and bitter woman,

Name and significance – Liesel Meminger is the novel’s protagonist, as Death narrates her story

Liesel described as a mischievous little girl, that was skinny, pale, also she had her lips chapped. She had dirty blonde hair with hazel eyes. Liesel was very sarcastic and shy at times. Rudy was a gentleman, but sometimes, he could be very direct and sarcastic. Rudy was light complected with narrow cheekbones and was boney. He was also very slender, with Blonde hair and blue eyes. He was Liesel partner in crime. Death is the narrator of the story. He is fascinated by the colors of the world and by humans. However, throughout the novel, death had noticed that humans were capable of ugliness and so much beauty. Death is often humorous, informative or dark asides.

When Max moved into the Hubermann’s basement, it was a favor for the person that saved Hans’s life, “‘He saved my life’” (Zusak 179). This is where we need to understand the power of words and see that they are the difference between life and death. When Hans make this promise, not knowing that the power of his words was going to affect him in the future, it really was the difference between the life and death. Next, there was the situation with the bombing in Molching. When Death is collecting the souls in the Hubermann household, as said by Death, “But there was no Liesel in that house. Not for me, anyways” (Zusak 532). During this time, Liesel was writing her own book in the basement. The words were powerful, and in this lucky situation, they literally did save her life. Again, understanding that there is so much power within one person with words. They come from people and they are able to create amazing stories and say amazing things with them. It is amazing how powerful one book can be with all the words in it. By way of contrast, words still do have the power to ruin lives. During this time period, Hitler had so much power with his words. To further explain, “The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this. Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or worldly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words?”

Max Vandenburg, who was a very supportive boy of Liesel, always helped her during her worst times and even her best times. Max had missed Liesel’s 12th birthday so he made her a little gift. He took a book called Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, but made it his own called The Standover Man. He gave this book to Liesel as it symbolizes how people have always stood over him in his life to help him just like Liesel has. “During that week, Max had cut out a collection of pages from Mein Kampf and painted over them in white. He then hung them up with pegs on some string, from one end of the basement to the other … Only then, on the paper that had bubbled and humped under the stress of drying paint, did he begin to write the story. It was done with a small black paintbrush” (Zusak 223). This quote reflects the power of words because Max is doing this for Liesel since they are good friends, and since it's her birthday. This comes to show that Max is about positive words towards his friends, but mainly Liesel.

The character of Death has human like empathy rather than just being the supernatural being readers would expect. The narrator tries to give their work more positive meaning by collecting stories and the emotions that come from the people he sees within his work. Such as Liesel, the protagonist from this novel. A “life” of the

In 1939 through 1943, Death is hit with an overwhelming number of souls. Throughout the story Death receives more and more souls, mainly because this story is taken place in Germany during World War 2. It all starts with Liesel’s little brother dies on a train, on the way to their new foster house. Death visits Liesel three times throughout this story, each time he sees her the sky is a different color. The first time he visits her he sees red, the second time he sees white, and the last time he sees black. Death is the appropriate narrator for this story, because he is neither a person in the story nor a person outside of the story, he tells the story in third person omniscient or first person.

Liesel had become of age when she wrote the novel “The Book Thief”, she was telling her story with others. In the novel she writes about what she went through, how she grew to become the person she is, how she has lost people in her life but has also met new people who have become important to her. As well as how at the end a bomb had hit Himmel Street where she lived and unfortuenetlley killed everyone who lived there but her.

Her mother couldn’t keep her safe so she sent here away to a different home and parents who would protect her. Her action of doing this had to be painful but there wasn’t any choice and it was the best for Liesel. It was during Hitler’s birthday did she realize that her father was a communist and she couldn’t be secure in their hands. “She saw it so clearly. Her starving mother, her missing father”(Zusak 111). The knowledge of this brought anger against Hitler and sadness when nothing could be done.

I can relate to Liesel’s character because I too find hope and consolation in words. Liesel made me realise that words are “precious” but it can potentially do different things to people. I think some “hate” words and find comfort in silence but some “love” them and find comfort in speech. I found it touching how books are the only memories of Liesel’s mother and brother since they died. I admired the way Liesel dealt with their deaths, knowing that Hitler’s words were responsible for it.

When she meets her foster parents she was frightened, but when she so the tall man she felt safe around him. Through the book she started to be happy with everything even though she was going through pain. When Max was sick Liesel asked her mom when he wakes up she should go get her just to see him. Liesel always cared for people and realized how things went such as her mother who never shows her love like others do, but in another way which is hitting her or yelling at her. She never disrespects other except Rudy.

The plot has really developed a lot in the last few readings. First we see the arrival of Max Vandenbug, a Jew who was seeking refuge from the Nazis. Upon his arrival, he slept for three days in the spare bed in Liesel’s room. Upon his awakening, a small bit of his character is shown. He was dismayed that he was in her room. This may have been because she was a young girl and this was just not proper, or perhaps it was because he felt he was far more likely to be spotted if he wasn’t better hidden, though the basement would later prove to contribute to health issues for the man.

This contrast is most evident between the novel's protagonist, a young girl named Liesel Meminger who comes to appreciate and understand the power of words through her experiences with them, and Adolf Hitler, ruthless dictator of Germany. Unlike Liesel, who is wise beyond her years, respecting and appreciating the words she so desperately craves, Hitler saw their value from a far different perspective. He saw them as tools of enlightenment, containing vital knowledge that would pull the people of Germany out of the darkness of ignorance, making them finally able to see through the facade he so cleverly maintained. As such, he ordered any and all that contradicted him, or supported "undesirable" peoples, burned, extinguishing the proverbial flames of discovery that burnt so brightly within their

I did too enjoyed this class all the material was related to serve the ELL students.  In some of readings differents strategies were point out by content teachers to instruct the ELL students. In my personal opinion,  there should be more training in assisisting and supporting ELL students in learning English. This class has been provided it me with a great source of  knowledge to teach the ELL student in more effective and efficient way.

The journey in taking my Master’s degree is an experience I will never forget. While the end is getting near, it is never a goodbye but a welcome to the next chapter of my career. I took this class with hope and faith to be able to broaden my knowledge about teaching ELL students. My passion in teaching has become intense. I have a new perspective about learning after a year of hard work and digging deeply in understanding the “other side” of teaching. I have to say there was a point in my career when I literally want to give up. Teaching indeed brings a lot of unwanted and unexpected results to students and to teachers as well. I will take this opportunity to say good luck to my classmates. I wish everybody to be successful in the field that