The Hubermann's Family In The Book Thief

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In a chilly night, a passing train that contain our book thief, Liesel is with her brother but unfortunately on the way to Himmel street, her brother died therefore they had to bury him near the train track. Himmel street is located in Germany, where Hitler is dictating therefore Germans will always have to comply with Hitler 's rules, no matter what or else they will get punish. Ironically, Himmel Street means Heaven Street but with Liesel’s fortune as of right now, losing her brother and having a new foster home, Heaven street is not matching her situation right now. As Liesel said “Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that it was a living hell. It wasn’t. But it sure as hell wasn’t heaven, either.” How …show more content…
Starting from her brother dying and facing her new foster parents. The Hubermann’s family is a very loving family, Rosa just shows it differently, basically a tough love while Han’s started from the beginning he showed love to Liesel. The Hubermann’s family was with through Liesel and teached her how to be a caring young child. For example, when Max suddenly went to a sleeping coma for about three days and everybody thought he was going to die soon but with Liesel’s strong mind and hope Max woke up. Death stated that “Max Vandenburg slept for 3 days. In certain excerpts of that sleep, Liesel watched him. She could now interpret his signs of life”. In the start, Liesel was a very shy and timid girl but as time went pass she met Rudy the neighborhood kid. Rudy helped Liesel and guided her through the story by getting Liesel’s book that went over the bridge and into the river. Over time, we saw Rudy became a man by recruiting him to become a pro athlete to him running away because he does not want to do it. Hans Hubermann also thrive into better human. For example, when he tried to help the accused Jew that were the Nazi soldiers taking away, helping Max to stay in the basement and almost getting caught by it and giving the opportunity to explore the outside world by giving him newspaper, having a snowball fight and listening to Liesel’s story telling

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