Hitler's Propaganda In The World Shaker

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When Liesel is about 9 years old, she learns to read coming to an understatement that Hitler's form of propaganda and figures out why her mother, father, and brother are killed. Max, who truly understands and gets the effect of hitler’s propaganda helps impart this lesson in the story “The World Shaker”.

In this journey of liesel leaving her old family, and becoming a stepdaughter of a new family with a mean step mother doesn’t like her in the beginning and claims she isn’t good and with a step dad also known as “papa” she automatically bonds with him . Papa teachers her how to read and write for her school skills.Upon learning that Hitler is behind her family's suffering, she steals a book from a book burning and is seen by Ilsa Hermann.

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