Gravedigger's Journal Analysis

Liesel’s family has been hiding a Jew named Max in their basement. This was a punishable crime back in WW2. This book had a very interesting perspective on WW2 and was very fun to read. In the ending of the book, there was a bombing that was happening, but the sirens came too late. When Liesel finally got out of the house, she realized that her parents, and her best friend Rudy were dead. Before the bombing Max left and got sent to a concentration camp. In the end of the book Max comes back and makes things a little brighter for Liesel. In this journal we will discuss the three most important objects. The three most important objects are, the gravedigger’s handbook book, the piece of bread, and a small journal.

The gravediggers handbook is an important object because it …show more content…
This may seem like a pointless object, but this object impacts the book a lot. “ The Jew stood before him, expecting another handful of derision, but he watched with everyone else as Hans Hubermann held his hand out and presented a piece of bread, like magic” (Zusak 394). Hans, Liesel’s dad, walked out on the street and gave a Jew a piece of bread. This was during one of the Jew marches. Back during WW2 Jews were not even considered human, and anyone helping then would be punished. Hans later was called a Jew lover, and was whipped on the spot for giving a Jew bread. Later Hans is so worked up over the punitive that might come. Later Hans receives a letter that says he has been selected to serve in the war. Earlier in the book they did not want him, but after the incident with the bread, they accepted him. This was almost like where the book has really started to hit its downfall. Everything was going ok, and then after the incident everything begins to slowly fall like snow (simile). Liesel is fatherless for a while, and she has to witness her mother cry. The piece of bread is an important object in the book, because it is a turning