"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..."
