"All my life I've Been scared, of Men standing over me."

       "He dreams like you." papa said. Every morning around 3 o'clock she would hear him. Then one morning she took it further than just listening. She had a good idea of what he saw in his nightmares but I think she just wanted to hear exactly what it was for sure from hin. He said he saw himself waiving goodbye to his family and the people he loved. "I also have nightmares". she said. "What do you see?" they Jew asked.
I think that Liesel and Max are similar becuase they both have the same nightmares that haunt them everytime they sleep. In Max's he's waiving goodbye to his family. In Liesel's all she sees is a train and her dead brother.Theyre both dealing with the guilt of losing thier families, but I think one of the main differences is that Max is old enough to fully understand the situation, and what happened to his family. Plus he was a jew. Liesel didnt have to hide ina basement or a closet sized space in order to survive. But she did have to deal with the tramatizing experiece of seeing her little brother die. I couldnt even imagine how that would feel, or how I would even react.
But in Max's story that he wrote for Liesel I think he's trying to tell Liesel she's not alone, and that he's really happy to have met her. He talks about his father vanishing, fighting as a boy, then he talks about going to the Hubberman's. Then he talks about meeting Liesel, and how they tlked about thier dreams. He ends the book with "It makes me understand that the best standover man i've ever known is not a man at all..."

"We might be criminals but at least we're not totally immoral"

Otto strum was the boy who delivered the food to the fat catholic priest. Rudy would joke with liesel about how one day he was never going to make it all the way there with their food, and one he followed through with what he was always joking about. The after they stole all the priest's food from Otto they went over to Arthur Burgs house to show and share with him what they had just done.


I do think that is is possible for  a person to be good and bad at the same time, because i think that a person can still be good and do bad things sometimes. It doesnt mean that you dont have morals or values, or dont care about anything. After they ate part of the food Arthur did want them to take some back. And when they do take the food they share with eachother. In my experience ive done things that may not have been the best decisions buti dont think im a bad person because of the things that i have done in the past, because its human nature to make mistakes and kind of think of yourself morethen others in the heat of the moment i guess, and good people i think will still consider others.
"Proof again of the contradictory of human beings. so much good so much evil. just add water"
(Zusak,Markus. The Book Thief. Newyork,NY;Alfred A.Knopf,2005 page.164)
And i think that good people can maybe do bad things for a good reason sometimes."he sat propped against the wall with a child in his arms. his sister. when she stopped breathing, he stayed with her, and i could sense he would hold her for hours. there were two stolen apples in his pocket"
(Zusak,Markus. The Book Thief. Newyork,NY;Alfred A.Knopf,2005 page.165,167)

"I'm Not Stupid"

  

I felt like I could kind of relate with Liesel in this chapter because I went to a private lutheran school for most of my child hood, and allthough the teachers I had were kind of cool sometimes, it was pretty strict and you had to know what you were doing or people would think you were kind of dumb,or at least make you feel like you were, and it also caused me to get in alot of fights, both there and in public school, becuase kinds are kind of the same no matter where you go. So after everyone in her class had read the teacher asked if there was anyone left who hadn't had a turn, Rudy quikly gave Liesel away ,much like my older brother would always do to me in school. But after Rudy said the the teacher didnt express much enthusiasm about her reading, becuase she knew she couldn't read that well, so she said that Liesel would be reading alone with her after school, but Liesel didnt care if she could read all the words or not, "she imagined herself reading the entire page at faultless, fluency-filled triumph. Key word- Imagined."(Zusak,Markus. TheBookThief-NewYork;NY: Alfred A. Knopf,2005. Print. Page77)  . So she went up there, and choked on her words as her eyes started to water, then she rememebered "In the event of snow", chapter 3 of the gravediggers handbook.She started reciting everything she could rememeber. After Liesel finished the teacher snatched the book from her and made her go to "watschen"for a time out. (means good hiding).

   After her experience in the classroom some of her classmates were kind of unforgiving, as kids tend to be sometimes, and they stared to make fun of her for not being able to read. One kid more then the others, his name was Ludwig Schmeikl. He kept coming up to her asking her to read parts from a book that he knew she couldnt read, and with everything else that had already happened that day, she took her anger out on him. First she kneed him in the groin, then proceeded to hit him in the face. A little while after the beating stared tommy Muller caught her eye and she soon was striking him in the face as well. After words she stated "I'm Not Stupid." No one argued. (Zusak,Markus. TheBookThief-NewYor;NY: Alfred A. Knof,2005. Print. Page79) When she returned to class and the techer saw what had happened to Ludwigs face she was shocked to find out it was Liesel. She punished her and put her back in watschen, for the sencond time in less than one hour.

  Trust me thought, The words were on there way. And when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds and she would wring them out like the rain. -Death pg.80

Death's Narration

Having death as the narrator I think is different because its not the person telling you what they went through or what happened to them, and not only is it someone else, but its someone that noone wants to ever meet and who you wouldnt really think about the perspective of the situations. He tells you what he think of "the book thief" and ho he met her and what heppened the day her brother died and kinda makes you sympathize with her without her ever saying anything. And i think that death would know more about people than anyone else would because hes had to be around them since the beginning of time with no vacation. His vacation is watching the colors and seeing how the lives around him unfold.


The feelings that i associate with death are sad, lonely, misunderstood becuase everyone has a portrait painted of him like he just comes when people dies to sort of finsh them off, but thats not the case, its just his job. He has no choice in the matter, and that makes me feel a little sympathetic towards him, in the book he even says he is not violent, or malicious, he is just a result.

The story of Joseph Sher

It is not so easy to do this interview. Last night I did not have a minute's sleep. When I sleep, I dream, I dream, I dream. We did not know who was going to be left alive. "Don't forget, tell the world" was the last thing our friends said before they were taken to their deaths. You cannot keep it inside. -joseph sher




Joseph Sher was born on Krzepice,Poland. He had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. He was the middle child, like me. His father was a secretary to the courts and also made outfits for the priest. He married a woman who was his sisters best friend,They tried to escape to Russia but by that time to many immigrants were already trying or had already gotten over there and the Russians were now keeping cloe eyes ont he borders. He talks about how he even wrote letters to Mrs. roosevelt trying to get her to help  in someway but he never recieved a response.

Shortly after his family went to the ghetto Hitler wanted to build a highway and needed workers, men between the ages of 20 and 30. Ech family had to have one man from every house go to help build it. His older brother had a wife and his other brother was not yet 20 but was very strong and wanted to go work for him, but he sdidnt really know where he was going or what to expect so he went.

He was in a labor camp for a little over months, 70 to 80 packed in barns anf they had to use bags as socks on there feet. He said the lice was so bad they would strip naked to give there clothes ice baths to kill the lice but then they were jus back 2 days later. Bunkers were also only given to kilos of bread a say wich they had to ration out. He talks about hoo most people ate really fast but he saved his and just ate a little throughout th day.

He survived because of some german Jews that he had known from the big ghetto. one was a physician and they were able to sneek him out, he returned to the ghetto. Shortly after his grandma was shot and killed. And after that they were moving people out of the ghettos for good, his brother was able to save ten people by bringing them to a facory to work, but he still lost his mother, and sister as soon as they moved the ghetto.

I can relate to him because also in the article i read he talked about how he just went with everything that was going on and just told himself "whatever happens, happens" and i think that to about alot of things. And i can also relate to him becuase i am a middle child also and i would do the same thing if my brother was trying to be a hero for me. I would rather have something happen to me then to anyone else in my family, and i think he felt the same.

Death Marches

Back during the time of the great depression the gremans had various ways of torchuring the jews, and when they had to move them around they did not have sufficient tanspertation for them. They were either shoved into little box train cars if they were just being taken into the concentration camp fromt he ghettos. Or they were made to go on marches that would possibly be made to last up to a weak just to to sort of weed out the ones they could no longer use as workers.

The death marches were torcherous to the prisoners. No matter what the weather conditions were they had to keep moving and keep up with everyone else around them. If u slowed down or stopped, you were shot. If u treid to run you were shot. And in the duration of these marches the germans would would stop to rest and allow the jews a little rest time as well, but it was during these rest's in the winter that many people dies as well, they would sort of just fall asleep in the snow and never wake up. In some stories you can read about survivers who actually hid under corpses and waited for the gertmans and everyone else to leave.

The death marches were just one example of what the Jews in that time had to go through, march for days without food or water, and knowing in the back of ur mind that if you or anyone you care about that your with stop, you could both die. It sounds Terrifying and I cant even begin to imagine how that must have been for nay of those people that had to go through that.