The Book Thief
Summer Reading Assignment
Theme: Words have the power to heal, the power to hurt and the power to change people’s lives.
Passage: “ ‘Liesel, if you tell anyone about the man up there, we will all be in very big trouble.’ He walked the fine line of scaring her into oblivion and soothing her enough to keep her calm. He fed her sentences and watched with his metallic eyes. Desperation and placidity. ‘At the very least Mama and I will be taken away.’ Hans was clearly worried that he was on the verge of frightening her too much, but he calculated the risk, preferring to err on the side of too much fear rather than not enough.” (203).
In this passage Hans is explaining to Liesel the consequences that would occur if she were to …show more content…
She has been visiting Frau Hermann’s library and picking up and dropping off the laundry for quite some time now. Rosa has been steadily losing customers and the Hermanns are her last remaining ones. The Hubermanns are in a struggle for money and trying to make ends meet and it is getting tougher and tougher since so many customers are leaving. This passage takes place after Frau Hermann had given the dreaded note to Liesel saying that they no longer needed the services of Rosa Hubermann. Liesel had taken the note, then walked outside and sat on the Hermanns front steps. She had thought for awhile, decided to walk home, then turned around and ran back to Hermann’s to confront Ilsa. She had built up so much anger and had whipped it out at Frau Hermann. This passage explains how words have the power to hurt and change people’s lives. In the passage above, when Death said, “The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words,” he was absolutely right. When Liesel said these things to Frau Hermann it hurt her in a way that basically set her straight. She realized that Liesel is right and from then on she only left her window open if she wanted Liesel to come, visit, and steal a book through her usual entrance: the …show more content…
Liesel had recently began coming to the Holtzapfel home to read to Frau Holtzapfel. At this point in time the sirens were going off and telling the area that bombers were coming. Frau Holtzapfel had just days ago heard the news that her son, Robert, had died in Russia and she was still getting over the shock of it all. Because of this, when the sirens went off, she had decided that she was just going to sit in her house. She did not say anything verbally but she just did not get up. Rosa and Michael (her other son) were desperately trying to get her to come to the Fiedler’s basement where they would be safe. No one could break her until Liesel came along and displayed the fact that words have the power to
Summer Reading Assignment
Theme: Words have the power to heal, the power to hurt and the power to change people’s lives.
Passage: “ ‘Liesel, if you tell anyone about the man up there, we will all be in very big trouble.’ He walked the fine line of scaring her into oblivion and soothing her enough to keep her calm. He fed her sentences and watched with his metallic eyes. Desperation and placidity. ‘At the very least Mama and I will be taken away.’ Hans was clearly worried that he was on the verge of frightening her too much, but he calculated the risk, preferring to err on the side of too much fear rather than not enough.” (203).
In this passage Hans is explaining to Liesel the consequences that would occur if she were to …show more content…
She has been visiting Frau Hermann’s library and picking up and dropping off the laundry for quite some time now. Rosa has been steadily losing customers and the Hermanns are her last remaining ones. The Hubermanns are in a struggle for money and trying to make ends meet and it is getting tougher and tougher since so many customers are leaving. This passage takes place after Frau Hermann had given the dreaded note to Liesel saying that they no longer needed the services of Rosa Hubermann. Liesel had taken the note, then walked outside and sat on the Hermanns front steps. She had thought for awhile, decided to walk home, then turned around and ran back to Hermann’s to confront Ilsa. She had built up so much anger and had whipped it out at Frau Hermann. This passage explains how words have the power to hurt and change people’s lives. In the passage above, when Death said, “The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words,” he was absolutely right. When Liesel said these things to Frau Hermann it hurt her in a way that basically set her straight. She realized that Liesel is right and from then on she only left her window open if she wanted Liesel to come, visit, and steal a book through her usual entrance: the …show more content…
Liesel had recently began coming to the Holtzapfel home to read to Frau Holtzapfel. At this point in time the sirens were going off and telling the area that bombers were coming. Frau Holtzapfel had just days ago heard the news that her son, Robert, had died in Russia and she was still getting over the shock of it all. Because of this, when the sirens went off, she had decided that she was just going to sit in her house. She did not say anything verbally but she just did not get up. Rosa and Michael (her other son) were desperately trying to get her to come to the Fiedler’s basement where they would be safe. No one could break her until Liesel came along and displayed the fact that words have the power to