Someone could steal them from you at any moment. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Markus Zusak. Previous Next. What's Up With the Title? And if someone does steal your books, will you be ready to steal them back? What's Up With the Ending? The book does not give a specific date but tell us Liesel's birthday is in mid February A thief is a name for someone who steals, a criminal so to speak.
She likes books. No, Liesel did not marry Max Vandenburg. After the war, Liesel and Max are united. Although it does say she gets married and has children, Max is not mentioned, so we can conclude that Liesel married someone else instead of Max.
The pronoun that takes the place of the noun thief a person who steals is he or she as a subject, and him or her as the object of a sentence or a preposition. The Ostrich it steals eggs. Liesel Meminger dies many years after the war in the book The Book Thief.
It is long after she was reunited with Max. After she dies Death gives her the book she wrote and threw away many years ago. Gravedigger's Handbook 2. The Shoulder Shrug 3. The Whistler 4. The Dream Carrier 5. The Complete Duden Dictionary and Thesaurus. Liesel scavenged through the garbage to find newspapers to take home to Max. Offering to paint over a swastika on the door of a Jewish store and he tells a man at the NSDAP that he would never join the party.
He is not very happy and asks her why she had stolen the book. The second book that she stole was the Shoulder Shrug and she stole it from the book burning. What realization does Liesel make as she hears the word kommunisten and spoken if as an enemy? What is her reaction? This made her sick. The Shoulder Shrug is written by a Jew about a Jew and was saved from the fire at the book burning.
The title suggests indifference and ignorance as we shrug our shoulders either when we do not know something, or we do not car. The second book Liesel steals is called The Shoulder Shrug. Liesel Is shown to how barbaric book burning is. She also realizes how the Nazis hates anyone different form them. She steals a book because it is something that draws her in and makes her possibly feel more alive.
What is special about the 2nd book Liesel steals? She stole it from the Nazi book burning. Liesel Stole The Shoulder Shrug symbolized her hate for hitler. So, for Liesel, this book definitely means Max, and Max's life Liesel learns that kind words can be used to combat hateful ones.
These two books are about friendship and the power of words to make a difference. Although this knowledge doesn't keep her family and friends on Himmel Street from dying in bomb blasts, it pushes Liesel to act as courageously as she can.
These three books also point to the development of Liesel's secret life during most of her time on Himmel Street. The fact that she was able to keep these books—and Max—a secret until she finally tells Rudy, after Max has been captured is a testament to her courage and strength.
The Word Shaker also alludes to Liesel's own calling: shaking words. She shakes them from books, from her own lips, and from the lips of others.
It reminds her to plant and shake words of friendship and love, especially where hate is thriving. The Whistler , a book about a murderer on the run from the police, is important to Liesel's character in several ways. This is the book she's been reading in Ilsa's library when Ilsa breaks the news that she can no longer pay Rosa to do her laundry. She's the last customer they have, and Liesel is furious. We see a super angry side of Liesel come out. She uses words against Ilsa and refuses to take The Whistler when it's offered.
This marks another change in her life. She'll no longer enter Ilsa's library through the door. Instead, she'll start coming through the window to steal the books. The Whistler is the first book she steals from Ilsa. In part, she steals it for Rudy, even though he would have preferred something edible. In general, we see this book as connected with Rudy and Liesel's relationship. For most of the book, they have a close friendship. Though it seems like Rudy is in love with Liesel, whereas Liesel isn't so sure.
When Rudy victoriously rescues The Whistler from the Amper River, where it's been thrown by Viktor Chemmel leader 2 of the fruit stealing gang , he shows Liesel his love for her. Death tells us,. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them. As the end nears, Liesel's feelings for Rudy do grow stronger, but Rudy is killed before we can see whether she'll act on them.
In bitter irony, Liesel finally kisses Rudy when he's dead. This stamps something painful on her character— regret. It's not the first or the last time she'll feel it, but probably one of the most intense. The Whistler is also the first book Liesel reads to the residents of Himmel Street to the bomb shelters. These public readings help Liesel see that her passion can be used to help those around her on a large scale.
The Dream Carrier , a book about "an abandoned child who wants to be a priest" Even though Rudy's with her when she steals it, it's more closely associated with Liesel's relationship with Max. She steals this book in when Max is gravely ill and in a coma. For obvious reasons, no doctor can be called, and Liesel offers the only cures she knows—prayer, gift-giving and reading to him from The Dream Carrier.
The combination of reading The Dream Carrier and spending all her free time with the comatose Max changes Liesel's dreams. One night, Max's face and body take the place of her brother Werner's in her recurring nightmare. All of this points to her increasing sensitivity and ability to draw parallels between seemingly disparate situations, like a six year old boy dying on a train and the comatose young man before her. She's also feeling a deep burden of guilt.
By bringing snow to the sub-zero basement-bound Max, she contributes to his current state of illness. But, as his writings and words later show her, the gift of snow was worth it. Perhaps, just perhaps, Max's comatose state is a relief from his own guilt and suffering The Dream Carrier also alludes to the fact that Liesel has been having the same nightmare of her brother dying on the train every night for over two years.
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