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