Parts 1-3 ‘“Did the Führer take her away?’…He said, ‘I think he might have, yes.’ ‘I knew it.’ The words were thrown at the steps and Liesel could feel the slush of anger, stirring hotly in her stomach. ‘I hate the Führer,’ she said. ‘I hate him.’ And Hans Hubermann? What did he do? What did he say? Did he bend down and embrace his foster daughter, as he wanted to? Did he tell her that he was sorry for what was happening to her, to her mother, for what had happened to her brother? Not exactly. He clenched his eyes. Then opened them. He slapped Liesel Meminger squarely in the face,”’ (Zusak 115-116). Liesel investigated what had happened to her real mom by questioning Hans about her after the Parade for Hitler’s birthday. This was a major internal
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Her eyes had scoured the humans and stopped hazily when she noticed the tall man and the short, wardrobe woman. That’s my mama. That’s my papa. The words were stapled to her. ‘They’re not moving,’ she said quietly. ‘They’re not moving.’ Perhaps if she stood still long enough, it would be they who moved, but they remained motionless for as long as Liesel did… I was trying to avoid her face, for the book thief was truly an irretrievable mess,” (Zusak 536-537). Liesel finds her parents and friends diseased after the bombing in the town of Molching. For most of the novel, Liesel is in control and is living a decent life with conflicts not involving life or death, but then a bomb is dropped on her town. When Death says that Liesel was “truly an irretrievable mess” after the air raid, this reveals that she is in a distressing state and can’t comprehend what has happened. This shows how much she relied on her family and how much she loved them. It also displays to the reader that she cherishes others close to her deeply because they meant a great deal to her. The setting is very influential here because this event couldn’t have happened anywhere else. The setting made Liesel feel devastated because she didn’t know what was happening and she was in shock. All Liesel saw when she was taken out of the ruble were destroyed buildings and dead bodies everywhere. If Liesel hadn’t experienced this event she wouldn’t have been the same person later in life because everything she had known was
Her eyes had scoured the humans and stopped hazily when she noticed the tall man and the short, wardrobe woman. That’s my mama. That’s my papa. The words were stapled to her. ‘They’re not moving,’ she said quietly. ‘They’re not moving.’ Perhaps if she stood still long enough, it would be they who moved, but they remained motionless for as long as Liesel did… I was trying to avoid her face, for the book thief was truly an irretrievable mess,” (Zusak 536-537). Liesel finds her parents and friends diseased after the bombing in the town of Molching. For most of the novel, Liesel is in control and is living a decent life with conflicts not involving life or death, but then a bomb is dropped on her town. When Death says that Liesel was “truly an irretrievable mess” after the air raid, this reveals that she is in a distressing state and can’t comprehend what has happened. This shows how much she relied on her family and how much she loved them. It also displays to the reader that she cherishes others close to her deeply because they meant a great deal to her. The setting is very influential here because this event couldn’t have happened anywhere else. The setting made Liesel feel devastated because she didn’t know what was happening and she was in shock. All Liesel saw when she was taken out of the ruble were destroyed buildings and dead bodies everywhere. If Liesel hadn’t experienced this event she wouldn’t have been the same person later in life because everything she had known was