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
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ReplyDeleteYou did an awesome job of relating your life to the book in this blog post Daylin! I love the pictures you picked too:) Make sure you are getting your blog posts done on time!!
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Run-on: "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."
Run-on: "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."
fragment: "One kid more then the others, his name was Ludwig Schmeikl."