Human experiences are bountiful, unique and inconsistent, they are an essential part of life that all individuals will confront. Every experience has copious amounts of variables and actions. These varying experiences affect a person 's point of view, and can gravely change how they are perceived or how they act. Some experiences can be results of the people around the individual and how they affect daily life. Other Experiences can impact an individual 's will to survive in a society where the majority is against them. In Markus Zusak 's novel, The Book Thief, the author uses characterization to suggest that significant experiences profoundly impact an individual 's life.
Liesel, the novel’s protagonist encounters …show more content…
By Liesel sharing common interests with max and treating Max with kindness, Max takes the emotional power of these moments spent with Liesel into the book he makes. This event intensely impacts Max’s views and feelings for Liesel and causes him to have compassion for her. Finally Max is perseverant, as he yearns to overcome the hurdles of Hitler 's domination over Germany and dreams he can survive. Max spends many hours alone in the Hubermanns basement, and during this time he imagines that he is fighting Hitler. Max would stand in a boxing ring, trying to win against Hitler. However Max can “feel the fists of an entire nation” as he knows Hitler has brainwashed an entire society, and he has little power to stop him. Even when Max becomes ill and the odds do not fall in his favour. Max still finds the will to live, as his family 's sacrifice makes it imperative that he strives to fight, even when almost everyone is against him. These experiences of Max fighting Hitler and surviving a sickness impact his ability to keep moving forward, the event of Hitler taking control over Germany and trying to eradicate all Jews, channels Max to stay determined in trying to survive, thus showing his creating perseverance even in the harshest of circumstances. All together Max’s experiences is what motivates him to keep moving forward, Max’s survivor guilt keeps gracious to the Hubermanns, Liesel 's connection with him gives him compassion for her and his battle against Hitler keeps him determined to