I have chosen to identify and relate five moral lessons, or lessons in general used in the story and relate them to life in the twenty-first century; a little side note, there are countless things in this story that are real “emotion pullers” from the simple caring for people, to much larger examples. However, I am going to stray away from the obvious examples, such as “Hey, let’s not have another mass genocide.” because that's too blatant and we know already not to repeat those things. First, the most apparent lesson is the value of friendship, trust, and support. The characters in the novel have very close and personal relationships, they trust each other, for the most part, they support each other. Example being when Liesel was learning
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In this case sharing not only means the physical aspect of borrowing items but talking about experiences or feelings that someone has. Max and Liesel had a very sharing relationship, they swapped nightmare stories, Max gave his life story in the form of homemade books. Liesel gave back by sharing the weather report daily to Max. Rudy and Liesel shared experiences together through Arthur Berg and Viktor Chemmel even if the latter of the two was not so pleasant. We could benefit vastly from this point alone, sharing opens up many possibilities in the form of relationships between countries, trade,food, and sharing could end many worldly problems we face on the daily. Sharing opens the door to trust, and we already know what that can do. The fifth and final lesson that I noticed can be taken from Markus Zusak can be found in the form of community gathering. During the bombings and air raids, Himmel Street would huddle up in the shelter, taking away all problems temporarily, they had found a greater cause that needed support for each other and met to keep everyone safe. In the beginning of the story, there was a bunch of minor rivalries that caused problems, when it came down to the scary and bad, they came together and provided support and shelter for
In this case sharing not only means the physical aspect of borrowing items but talking about experiences or feelings that someone has. Max and Liesel had a very sharing relationship, they swapped nightmare stories, Max gave his life story in the form of homemade books. Liesel gave back by sharing the weather report daily to Max. Rudy and Liesel shared experiences together through Arthur Berg and Viktor Chemmel even if the latter of the two was not so pleasant. We could benefit vastly from this point alone, sharing opens up many possibilities in the form of relationships between countries, trade,food, and sharing could end many worldly problems we face on the daily. Sharing opens the door to trust, and we already know what that can do. The fifth and final lesson that I noticed can be taken from Markus Zusak can be found in the form of community gathering. During the bombings and air raids, Himmel Street would huddle up in the shelter, taking away all problems temporarily, they had found a greater cause that needed support for each other and met to keep everyone safe. In the beginning of the story, there was a bunch of minor rivalries that caused problems, when it came down to the scary and bad, they came together and provided support and shelter for