Basement

relocate Max. Just as soon as she had returned there was a knock at the door. Warning Max to hide under the stairs they answered the door allowing the man to enter the basement to take measurements. Hans, Rosa, and Liesel all waited the few slow minutes that the Nazi took in agony. After returning upstairs the man had deemed the basement unfit and had not discovered Max. Rudy now happy in his new Youth group and knowing of the carnival to be held wanted to prove himself to his former youth…

and 5 children, as well as some of their staff, including a cook were woken up at midnight by Yakov Yurovsky, the commandant of The House of Special Purpose and a group of soldiers. They were led into a basement, all the while being reassured that it was safer for them there. Once in the basement, Yurovsky read to them a list of their crimes. They were confused at first, but soon realized that this was not ‘safety’. As Yurovsky finished reading, Nicholas kissed his wife and kids for the last…

(Zusak 523) Ilsa Hermann’s passing on of the little black book to Liesel, in which she writes her life’s story is which many believe to be very influential in the story, as on the night of the Himmel Bombing, Liesel is writing in the book down in the basement, meaning that the book’s existence, and Ilsa Hermann passing on the book to Liesel is her savior, and not the event in which Papa encourages Liesel to learn to read and write. However, though this counter argument proves key point in fault…

Intro: Thesis: In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the symbolic meaning that the accordion, the basement and the books play a constant role in telling the story of Liesel Meminger and in the lives around her. Outlining the main symbols and a quote about one of them. ( the accordian, the books, the basement.) Her memory of himmel street was represented by 3 main objects, the basement, the accordion and her books and at the end of the book she loses all three of them Quote: dialogue…

Sadly enough, I soon came to find out the basement only had one exit, which was no longer an option for me to use. Instantly I thought that if I could not get out I must find a way to learn more about what I was down here with. So I began yelling “HELLO?, HELLOOOO?”. There was no response. I was…

During World War Two my great grandparents were alive. There were two sides of the war Axis and the Allies. The United States was on the Allied side and they won. One of the reasons for the war was the genocide of the Jews. The war exhausted resources leaving shortages in the United States and many other countries involved in the war. According to Geoffrey R. Walden, in World War Two Schweinfurt, Germany was a bombing target which results in 1079 civilian casualties and many left as refugees…

at the kids who cause problems before this family moved in. I was scoping out my when to do this, were his parents wouldn’t hear a thing. Then I thought about the basement. But this would be hard because kids don’t like cold and dark, and that was the description of the basement. They always watch and believe scary things about basements. A day before I was going to execute my plan I saw something about Nathaniel, he wasn’t acting like he use to. Now every day he woke up he was…

vegetables such as lettuce or carrots. It has been recorded that they also eat their own species when they note them to be injured or during molting. Interaction with Humans: Humans tend to find them in their homes in moist or damp areas such as basements, and in the…

beautiful things and the people of Omelas are not naïve, but mature, intelligent, passionate adults, they are free to do as they like. However, the perfection of their city and their happiness depends on a suffering child who is locked away in a confine basement. I find this short story critiques the utilitarian view a great deal. Could utilitarianism provide justice and fairness? It seems the right of one person is less important than the good for the many people in Omelas. They all know the…

with a used bedroom on each floor. I lived on the middle floor, while my brother lived in the basement and my mom lived upstairs. The basement was huge with two different sides to it. One side was the laundry room/ storage room with a side room filled with my mom’s items used to make soap, candles, and lotions. It smelled amazing down there filled with different sense of candles. The other side of the basement was my brother’s room, that use to be the playroom when we first moved in and soon…