Rudy

I rate The Book Thief a 4 because the different parts of the plot had a unique way of interconnection. There were small details that seemed unimportant, but as the storyline progressed the minute detail from earlier turns out to be important. For example, in the beginning Liesel, the main character, steals a book, and the author recounts the story of how she obtained that book. In the plot that plays a major role because that spurs Liesel's book stealing ways, so that first minute detail ended…

His views on her changes from just being curious to actually having an unspoken connection. “One of them, Rudy, would become Liesel’s best friend, and later, her partner and sometime catalyst in crime” (47). Death sprinkles some foreshadowing throughout the entire story. Here he explains how Liesel and Rudy’ s relationship unfolds and blossoms. “So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them” (303). Death is using…

The main people are Rudy and Ben’s mom. Ben’s mom is born with this disease and it can’t be fixed by him. For Rudy he was born with the constant urge to touch boys and in the end he couldn’t stop himself and molested one of his alter boys. Rudy felt terrible for doing this and the young boy eventually committed suicide. This caused a great burden on Rudy. Ben couldn’t change Rudy’s mind set or the things that he has done. Ben once said…

Book Report – The Book Thief The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a historically fictive novel set in Nazi Germany, at the very beginning of WWII. The Book Thief is about a young orphaned girl by the name of Leisel Meminger living during the coming of age of WWII. As Death narrates, we watch Leisel as a young girl, travelling with her mother and brother to meet her foster parents. Sadly, her younger brother Werner dies during the trip. During her brother’s funeral, she finds a book…

True Nature of Courage In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the true nature of courage is analyzed in depth throughout the story. The novel had many different themes, but courage is the most important one because between all the characters, each one had their moments in the book where they showed acts of kindness. The meaning of courage is the quality of one's mind to face difficulty or danger without fear and being brave. The character in The Book Thief that expressed the most courage was…

or not, Rudy was always destined to be Liesel’s best friend. A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship” (48). Throwing snowballs in people's faces was not an appropriate way to introduce oneself, but it worked for Rudy Steiner. When a bomb was dropped over Himmel street, Rudy Steiner was one of the casualties. Liesel was in disbelief, she would had to say goodbye to her best friend while she was overcome with extreme grief. The bond she had with Rudy…

Discrimination of ethnicity is seen when Rudy and his father talk about “Son, you can’t go around painting yourself black, you hear?’ ‘Why not, Papa?’ ‘Because you shouldn’t want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is… not us’”(Zusak 60). In this excerpt from the novel the reader can see how the father of Rudy is discriminating African Americans and is indoctrinating his son without Rudy even knowing. Discrimination is also seen in religion when Kristallnacht(‘the…

Television as almost everything in life has had an evolution. The way we think of television is very different than the way our ancestors did. Television has been around since the late 1920’s. However, back in the day it was a very expensive luxury that only the elite could afford. With the passage of years television became more accessible and as a consequence more popular. In the 1950’s television was considered to be the primary medium in which many families gathered their information.…

shelter. Did you know you help more than one animal? You save two lives the one you adopted and the old kennel they were in you opened for another animal to stay in. For example my uncle adopted his dog Rudy Roo a week later there was a new dog in his Rudy's old kennel if he did not adopt Rudy that dog would not have been there. In conclusion it is much more efficient to get a dog or animal from the shelter. Why not help a animal in need and not purchase one from a pet store sponsoring a…

the novel with death taking Liesel’s life many years after the war. During the novel it subtly describes different economic theories. The most descried being scarcity, opportunity cost, and choice. Firstly, scarcity is shown most dramatically when Rudy and Liesel find a coin on the ground; they rush to bring it to a candy shop hoping to get mixed candy – only to discover that the coin is only worth one small piece of candy(page 155, ‘The Book Thief’, Zusak). In order to understand how this…