The Gravedigger's Handbook Book Analysis

The idea that beauty and brutality can coexist is an odd, yet not very clear, concept. We don’t know why it is odd, but to our eyes it is. When you think about it, many people don’t immediately know what it is when they first come about it, and it took me a few weeks to fully understand it myself. In this paper, I have tried as best I can to make quotes that fit, and are meaningful.

The first idea I present to you is a part in the beginning of the book, page 29 paragraph 2, telling the reader that the book “The Gravedigger's Handbook” was the first book that set Leisel on the path she had taken. In paragraph 3, you will see how, but in short, it saved Leisel and started her on her career of reading and writing, and helped her survive the nuking of Himmel street. Oh did I mention that there will be spoilers? The book that she stole gave the idea as if as if the “book of burying the dead brought good”, so death=good? You don’t have to understand it for it to coexist. It took me 4 weeks to understand this, and it finally makes sense. A book of how to raise the dead by lowering their bodies, not their …show more content…
Heaven is beautiful in everyone’s mind, but it was bombed by the brutal Hitler, where it was “flattened”, but still existed. A quote I had created from this point being made: “Heaven always exists, even if it is brought to ashes, there is nothing you can do to stop its existence. No power can destroy it, no mountain can cover it, as it becomes part of the show of power, or a building point of the mountain. You just have to see it.” This took me a while, and it was revised multiple times, but I think that it has a lot of meaning, especially here. While Hitler was making a show of power, he bombed a “sacred” part of humanity. This is saying that Hitler thought he was greater that God, and he led, more like forced, people to believe in the same thing he