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I really like the picture that Max has drawn shown on pages 279 and 280. The first picture is very true how Max says Hitler isn't just a leader for the German's, he tells them what to do without compromising. He is very strict and like a music conductor by directing everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe second picture is very ironic because the people are saying it's a lovely day but there is a whole bunch of dead people underneath them. Obviously the people who are alive are German's who see a whole bunch of dead Jews. Therefore they are happy.
Both of these pictures are interesting to me because they are in a perspective of a Jewish person and are true in my perspective also.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture because it reminds of the when liesel went inside the Hermann household she was astonished by the library and could not resist but touch as many books as she can
The pictures on 279 and 280 although are drawn very innocently with simple lines, makes me find them quite scary because of what Max has drawn. I mean, the picture of Hitler and his followers isn't that bad, but the next one is the one that catches my attention most. Liesel and Max (?) are standing ontop of a hill composed of many dead bodies (possibly Jews) and the Sun has a Nazi sign in it. Perhaps they put it in the Sun to show the Nazis power and the dead bodies represent what happens or what will happen to the Jews. Also, in the picture Liesel is shown saying, "Isn't it a lovely day?" Maybe when more of Maxs book has been revealed, I'll understand it more.
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ReplyDeleteThis is how I picture the library where Liesel reads when she drops the ironing off at the mayor's house. There's the desk where Ilsa Hermann always sits, and the window in the background where the breeze always comes in. But most important, there's just bookshelf after bookshelf of books, lining the walls, leaving room only in the middle of the room for reading.
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ReplyDeleteThis is how I envision Hans Huberman playing the accordion. He looks concentrated but casual as well. The background is red, it makes everything feel on fire and alive. And in the book it says that Hans made the accordion live. I imagine everything being a bit blurred so it's just the music that stands out. The accordion is scratched and not perfect, but something about it feels special.
On page 251, I noticed a similarity in this book from another book we have read this year, "Maus". This is when Max's commentates to himself about his fight with the "Fuhrer", which is Hitler. He describes how he feels they look like; first he describes Hitler as the champion of the world followed by describing himself as a "rat". He did this because he wanted to show that Hitler is the superior person in the fight and that his race is scared of Hitler. In Maus the author did the same when he described the German's as cats and the Jewish people as mice. This author showed the same meaning but, in a different situation.
ReplyDeleteThese pictures show how I think that Max described himself. You have to look at these pictures they are very creative. I don't know how I found it but, it is very interesting. They really represent how the German's ruled the Jews.
http://www.piratenews.org/jew-nazis-Al-MadinaJuly12-2005.jpg
http://www.karennutton.co.uk/content/binary/cat%20and%20rat.jpg
This is how I imagined Rudy to look while they were playing soccer. He didn't care if he got all muddy, or if he was on the ground, all he cared about was winning. In this picture it is a bright sunny day, so I would expect this to be before things got complicated with the Jews and Nazis. I thought this was a good picture of Rudy, because he has blond hair, and is very skinny.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture, because this is how I picture Germany becoming, but darker and darker each day. I imagine hate as being a cloud of darkness, and with all fo the hate of Jews in Germany, their entire sky would be like a dark cloud. As the war goes on and the story continues, I think that thhe sky will just become completely black.
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ReplyDeleteThis is how I imagined Hitler’s birthday to look like. All of Hitler’s followers are crowded around the pile of stuff to burn, listening to his speech. There are the Nazis, and the Hitler youth groups, all hailing to their leader. There are a lot of people, all crowed close together. This is exactly how I imagined it to be as I read this part of the book. I can see Liesel and Ruby being one of these people in the Hitler Youth, and trying to get though the people, but struggling because there are so many people.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I saw this picture, I thought of when the Hitler Youth group that Tommy and Rudy were in was trying to march. In this picture it looks like they are marching, but having some difficulty. In the book, Rudy is telling Liesel about how Tommy can't hear the commands because of his ears. In the picture, it looks like some of the people aren’t very happy. I can see them not being happy, because they would have to start over and over again until they got it right. In this picture, the children all look about the same age, the age that Rudy and Tommy are in the novel. Before I read this novel, I didn’t know that there was such a thing as Hitler Youth. I think that is really sad. The children are being forced to follow the ways of Hitler from such a young age. This book is teaching me a lot about the Holocaust that I didn’t know before.
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ReplyDeleteBelow are two maps of Germany. Though I knew that Germany did expand during World War II I was surprised at how far Hitler's greed spread it. Looking at these maps and reading this novel lead me to the shudder-inducing thought of a world ruled by the Nazis; a world that would have existed in Germany (and the allies) had won the war.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture creates the image in my head during the time when almost everyone on Himmel street were inside the Fielder home hiding in their basement during the bomb session
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ReplyDeleteThis is how I envision the big fire that went on in the streets while Germany was celebrating Hilter's birthday. It may not have been this big but this picture shows people surrounding the fire and watching everything burn, such as books or anything that had represented the Jewish people.
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ReplyDeleteThis is what i picture when they are building the snowman this is how i think it likes when they are done. Kind of small, but still resembles a snowman.
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ReplyDeleteThis image that comes to mind when the book talks about playing soccer in the street. Just how the houses are all old and not in the best of shape, but the kids still look like they are having fun.
***A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH***
ReplyDeleteI do not carry a sickle or a scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold
And I don't have those skull like
facial features you seem to enjoy
pinning on me from a distance. You
want to know what I truly look like?
I'll help you out. Find yourself
a mirror while I continue.
This is how I've always thought of death, not as myself per-say, but as a completely non-descript person. I think that's what he's trying to say. Not that he's you, but that he could be anybody.
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When Max takes a look at the stars and he says they burn his eyes, i pictured the stars being this bright for him http://cnsblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/guy5.jpg they are not likely this big but i would think thats how bright he saw them. Max has not seen the sky in 22 months. I could not imagine not looking at the night sky in almost a year.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture because it reminded me of Hans; when he decided to help out a Jew in need of some food, but Hans was later punished for his actions.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture because it reminded of the time when the Jews were marching down the street and the German soldiers were supervising them
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of when Viktor Chemmel threw Lisel's book (The Whistler) into the river and Rudy went and saved the book for her.
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ReplyDeleteThis is what i imagined for the Hitler Youth meetings. This is the girls one, but i think the guys would look similar where they had to stand straight and listen. Though i don't think they'd just have to do something like this, i kind of imagine them as well in an old classroom learning what they needed to.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture because it reminded during the time Viktor was on top of Rudy and beating him up , because Rudy was going against Viktor's commands
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture to represent Isla Hermann because her behaviors, her wordlessness, calmness, mystery and despair truly remind me of a ghost, wandering around her huge mansion and not really doing anything but just being there. From reading about her, I can sense that Ilsa is very lost, it is like she has nothing to do with her life and she is not planning to; as if she is trapped between two worlds like a ghost.
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ReplyDeleteThis is how I pictured the room filled with books in the mayor's house. In this picture there is a desk where Isla Hermann would sit while Liesel read the books. It looks old and it ressembles my thought of the image.
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ReplyDeleteThis is kind of how I pictured Rudy and Liesel's relationship. Of course, they love calling eachother mean names, but when it comes down to it, Rudy is always there for Liesel.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture of two women arguing reminds me of the similar relationship between Rosa and Frau and their constant arguments.
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ReplyDeleteThis is what I picture the basement that Max was staying in.(minus the light) I pictured it having garbage all over the place and to be very uncomfortable. This looks really cold and scary and it reminds me of the basement in the novel because of the cement floor and brick walls. I would definitely not want to stay down there in the dark for a very long period of time.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture came to my mind when Himmel street was bombed and apartments and homes came colliding down to the surface.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture took a while to find and although not exactly what I wanted. I think this really represents how death takes Liesels soul in the end. I know it is an angel carrying the girl in this picture but it never did say what or who death really was. Although we do think of the grim reaper and the scythe when we think of death like he says but we really do not know at all what death really looks like because nobody who see is death is ever alive.
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ReplyDeleteThis is how imagined Liesel felt the first time she walked into the mayors library full of books. It is wall to wall of books, theres everything she could ever ask for, it was a dream come true for a poor little girl who loved to read.
In my mind when i was reading about the kristallnacht or the night of broken glass i picture a image of terror, people running everywhere all over the streets, glass everywhere, Germans screaming at the Jews, guns being fired, dead bodies on the streets, people crying, children without parents, Nazi's smoking and laughing, and last Hitler standing above everyone else looking down at the terror he has caused with the biggest smile on his face. This was the image i had created in my mind so i decided to research a real image from the night of kristallnacht and this is what i found.
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I think the picture i had created in my mind did have some resemblance to the picture i found of the real night.
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ReplyDeleteThat is how i see Leisel when she is invited into the mayors house to look at all the books. There are just so many that she has a hard time choosing.
http://images.travelpod.com/users/leona_luv/1.1220968800.kids-playing-soccer-on-the-street.jpg
ReplyDeleteThis is how i see the kids all playing soccer. The only problem with the picture is that there is no girl in it which would be Leisel. Please ignore that fact. Anyways this is what i feel it would look like when they were all playing.
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3300000/Girl-Reading-Book-books-to-read-3325650-321-400.jpg
ReplyDeleteThis is kinda what i imagined how Liesel would look when reading books, especially when she was reading Max's sketchbook and the story he wrote for her. I think she would look really engaged and interested in the book and this kind of represents it. Except, exclude the dog in the background reading the book with her in the picture.
On page 547 Death creates this kind of image in my head http://piccies.flybywire.org.uk/Weather/2004/20040605_Sunbeam.jpg
ReplyDeleteA over cast sky yet very pretty.
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ReplyDeleteI like this picture because this is how i pictured Liesel in the library. I think she would go crazy with this pile of books arround her.
The silver eye has come up a lot during the course of this novel. It always describes something different, at the start I didn’t pay too much attention to it but, now that it is coming up frequently I decided to look it up a little. On page 343, it says the soldiers silvery eyes were calm and caring. On page 395 they described the silver eyes as the Jews when they were trying to get the bread off the ground that Hans had thrown so that they could eat it.
ReplyDeleteHere is a picture of a silver eye and how I think it would look like if the author had actually drawn it out.
http://www.silver-mask.net/images/graphics/silver_eye.jpg
@Breanna
ReplyDeleteI love the picture you chose with the big pile of books.
Even though you can't see a person behind the books,
it seems to me like Liesel is sitting behind it reading.
Along the same idea as Breanna's picture, this one:
http://cms.redbridge.gov.uk/images/girl_library_books_web.jpg
Although this picture is a bit more modern then I picture it,
it reminds me of how Liesel would have been in a library,
and how she would want to get every book on the shelf.
http://www.vgic.com/Portals/0/Risk2.jpg
ReplyDeleteI chose this picture to represent one of the themes displayed in the novel, which is risk. As I look at the picture I imagine Hans Hubermann who out of his kind heart and believe in justice agreed to hide a jewish person in his house, putting himself and his family in great danger and risking truly a lot by coming so close to the Death that awaits him in role of Nazi's strict punishments that are waiting like crocodiles in the picture for him to make one wrong move.
I chose this picture to represent the Hubermanns trying to help Max out, in other words giving him a hand by letting him hide in their basement. This picture is also supposed to represent the characters in the novel helping each other out. For instance when Hans taught Liesle how to read that helped her out a lot because as evident in the book Liesle becomes really content when she has a book in her hands, and I think that Hans teaching her how to read was his own way of helping her out. Another example is when Liesle got the washings for Rosa that was her way of helping her foster mother out. Another example is when Rudy had helped Liesle multiple of times, like when he accompanied he while she got the washings, and when he went with her to steal a book from the Mayor's house, and when he rescued her book from the floating water.
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ReplyDeleteAfter Liesel is done yelling at Ilsa Hermann, the author tells us that she turns around and sees a city like a shattered picture. This was the idea of a shattered city that I had in mind.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture gives a thought of what Hitler Youth might have looked like. With all of teh mini Hitlers in there uniforms holding up the Heil Hitler.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a picture of a bunch of kids running around while playing soccer. This reminds me of when the kids on Himmel Street play soccer with each other.
So this is how I see the library in the mayors house. I don't see it with all that furniture, but the window and the bookcases are almost perfect.
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Throughout the novel they would mention the Jewish people. This would always put pictures in my head about where the Jews were put and what they had to do. This picture reminds me of how the Jews had to sleep and how pact in they were. It was really uncomfortable for them but they couldn't do anything about it. It's really sad that they had to do this. You can also see how starved and unhealthy the Jews were at that time.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture is how I imagined the fire in “part two” of the book, when Germany is celebrating Hitler’s birthday. People are standing around this burning fire, watching whatever Jewish items are left disappear into ashes.
I think that death looks like an ordinary person. Everyone assums death should look like a morbid evil character but on page 307 in the book it says " You want to truly know what i look like? Find yourself a mirror." I understand that line as look at yourself in the mirror and thats what i look like. A Person. Death also mentions that he is a male.
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ReplyDeleteThis is what i imagine the Mayors wife Ilsa Hermann looks like while Liesle reads her books. I personally think that Mrs Hermann is depressed because she lost her son and maybe is unhappy with her life.
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ReplyDeleteThis is how I portray Rosa in my head. An angry woman who is always yelling at other people and making other people do her work for her.
http://mashedmusings.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/crying-woman-small.jpg
ReplyDeleteI think that this picture kind of communicates how devastated Frau Holtzapfel was after her last remaining son hung himself. From the way she was describes, she really had nothing left to live for, and she had given up on life.
Nice pitcure Karlee, I think it portrays Rosa very well.
ReplyDelete@Kelsey
ReplyDeleteI think the picture you chose is very pretty.
But I'd have to disagree with you.
I find this picture a better image of Ilsa being upset:
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The picture you chose seemed more model ish to me,
whereas the photo I chose, the woman looked much more haggard.
Although I think your picture is a good image of Ilsa,
I'd have to say that mine shows her emotions more.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I think of Hans Hubermann I think of this man because he is a little rough around the edges but a nice and gentle man all around.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture is what i imagined of the kids playing soccer. Other than maybe some cultural differances this picture is exactly what i had imagined when i was reading the book.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of Rudy and Liesel playing soccer. They have smiles on their faces and seem happy to be with eachother.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of when Rosa and Liesel would go and deliver the ironing, or pick up washing from the nieghbours,because in the picture both of them do not look happy,and Liesel and Rosa never looked forward to doing this task.Since the picture is black and white, it sort of gives of a negative tone.
I was searching for a good picture of Liesel to portray how I imagined her, and I came across this picture of a little scrawny boy:
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I think that this is a good example of how I imagined Rudy.
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ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of Rosa. It looks like shes yelling at something like Rosa is always doing. She is also holding a knife and that to symbolized as Rosa being in the kitchen because it always talks about Rosas pea soup.
Karlee i liked your picture, but it was a little differant than what i thought she looked like:
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This is how i imagined Rosa in my head. A mean older lady who likes telling people what to do and tries to boss everybody around.
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ReplyDeleteWhen i think of Death as a person this is what i think of. Someone who is in a black cloak, gives off a negative tone and keeps to themself. I think of him being someone who watches from the outside and doesn't like when people see him.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture because it reminded me of Rosa Huberbann. The wooden rolling pin could be exchanged for a wooden spoon and it would match perfectly! She looks angry and I could imagine this woman calling Liesel a Saumensch.
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ReplyDeleteWhen i look at this picture i think of Hans Hubberman because he is painting a wall and Hans is a painter. Also i imagine Hans as having grey hair and a slight beard and the man in this picture looks like how i imagined Hans.
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ReplyDeleteWhen i think of the boxing match Max has in his dreams with Hitler, this is what i imagen. An over powering bigger man fighting someone who is half his size with almost no power. It is an unfair match that everyone can see and Max is the under dog everyone wants to win but people are too scared to actually cheer for him cause they are afraid of the Hilter will do to them.
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ReplyDeleteI wanted to get a real picture from the tragic historical event of the night of broken glass. I wanted to show people that this night shattered many Jewish peoples lives and that it was outrageous. This picture is of a Jewish store that has smashed windows from the Nazi and German folks.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of how desperate, devastated and guilty Hans Hubermann felt after his stupid act of kindness resulted in the departure of Max.
http://www.ourbrisbane.com/files/gallery/user-submitted/Women_in_air_raid_shelter.jpg
ReplyDeleteThis is what I imagined the air raid shelters to be like.
I wasn't really sure what Hitler youth camp was so i decided to google a picture of what it would look like, and heres a picture i found i think it helped potray the image i had in my mind.
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This is what I imagines the sky as during the battle of Stalingrad. The sky is stained by the blood, the anger and the hate being as red can represent all these things. These feelings are to be so strong due to the nature and the multitude of the deaths durig that battle, that the colours of the each soliders soul cannot be seen.
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ReplyDeleteThe picture i have chosen is to represent how Max goes through his days in a basement alone. He has nothing down there to keep himself entertained with, if not entertained then at least something some thing that could keep Max busy that wouldn't keep his mind focused on him getting caught by Nazi soldiers.
ReplyDeleteIn this picture it is a girl, but it is also showing how Max might be sitting down there alone with the problem of Nazi soldiers finding him.
http://javajune.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/empty-room.jpg
I think that the front cover of the book represents people or soldiers. Pages 407 and 408 shows Rudy playing dominoes with his siblings and then knocking them over. For some reason, the dominoes remind me of the war and the soldiers: falling soldiers on the battle field are like the dominoes being knocked down. One by one, in a line or some kind of formation. Or the dominoes can also be representing the Jews when they are forced to walk on the streets while being guarded by Nazi soldiers and then their death could be equal to the falling of the dominoe pieces.
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ReplyDeleteThis is what I pictured as the mayors library. Although it may be a little over the top, it is exactly what came to my mind when the room was being described in the book. I can even see Liesel sitting on the cold wood floors with books stacked all around her.
A picture that came to mind was when Liesel kicked the daylights out of Ludwig Schmeikl at school when he makes remarks about Liesels's reading and gets cracked in the face(Ear). It shows that you can only make remarks to a certain point until someone gets frustrated like Liesel did and start a fight.
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I chose this picture because it just doesn't show what the Germans are doing in this book but what the Germans were doing in General by taking over other cities and countries. It is like they are trying to reach a point where they would stop but it just never happened, it was close for Germany to win it all but it ended in a disaster from what I think, so this picture shows how close they were to achieving something.
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A picture that came to my mind was when Hans Hubermann, Liesels stepfather shows care and passion towards her for everything. Such as when it was Christmas instead of giving her one book he gave her two. It shows that he really wants her to feel that she is part of the Hubermann family even though they aren't her real parents.
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This is how I imagine the library of the Mayor's Wife looking like. For the library has a little bit of a classical look while still having modern features. The only thing missing are the characters themselves.
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In this picture a young who I like to think of as Liesel building a snowman indoors, while also eating a carrot. I feel it's a good representation because it shows the innocence of childhood and how even something as small as building a snowman can really make someone's day.
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I have chosen to now represent how I see the character of max doing his pushups day in and day out. It really shows his ineer strength and above all his willingness to work to be the best and strongest person he can be. He really dedicates himself and gives all he has in case it is ever needed.
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When I think of all the imagery portrayed in this novel one image immeadiately pops into my head, Hitler's Birthday and the book burning ceremony. This is a key element because they are trying to destroy every link and every memory that has ever showed evidence of the jewish people. They also, celebrate this man's birthday like he is a god, a saint if you will.
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One other distinct photo that pops into my head is the very well developed image of the children playing soccer in the streets. I have chosen this representation because the children in this look so innocent, they have nothing more to do with their time. It is just like in the Book Thief the children have nothing better to do so they play soccer occupy their spare time. The only fault in this picture is that their are boards. As we all know they could not have had boards because the street was not rich enough to own the wood nessecery. Also, someone would have stolen this wood for they were in dire need.
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I think this picture shows how I pictured Hans and Liesels midnight readings.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture came to my mind when I imagined the kids playing soccer on Himmel Street it shows kids running around and having a good time. It portrayed a colorful image in my mind because it seemed like the kids on Himmel street are happy when they play soccer together.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a picture of Jesse Owens. I think this picture helps us understand why Rudy idled him, because his determination is incredible and you can see he really wants what he's fighting for. Rudy is always the same, he puts 100% into whatever he does, and even during the Holocaust when his only leader Hitler refused to shake Jesse Owens hand, Rudy always admired him.
I was just looking back into the book and i remembered the picture on page 280 catching my eye. The picture that is drawn by Max is very graphic to me because this shows a lot of offence. It feels offensive because in the past years people have felt racism as a really big factor that bothers people who it happens to. This picture shows how German people hate jewish people by showing two children standing o a enormous pile of dead jewish people without a problem but the kids are still happy. This shows how much hatred there is in between Germans and Jewish people.
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This picture makes me think of the Jewish people in Germany during the time period of this novel. It makes me think of how when one person has a thought, others begin to develop the same thought, like Hitler did with the Nazis about the Jewish race being evil and of lesser value than everyone else. It also represents the impact the Germans had on the Jews, that the Jews were so powerless against Hitler and the Nazis. If Hitler gave the word, all the Jews were knocked over like dominoes (as in brought to concentration camps, killed, or used as slaves to clean up during the war).
I agree with Martina I do think Jesse Owens would be a great idol for Rudy because of the records he broke. Its not just because of the records he broke but because of the hard work and dedication he earned to do it. It shows how people can achieve things if they put there mind to it.
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The picture on page 280 drew my attention to it. It showed how many people would die in the war and people would just imagine it as any other day. It creates a negative portrait in my mind. The image I pictured in my mind was that it was ok to kill anyone you saw and they couldn't do anything about it because they were Jewish and you were German. It shows how big of an impact Hitler had on German people.
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This is basically what I imagine the mayor's wife's library to look like, except with a more dusty look, since it seems like there aren't a lot of visitors or people pulling books off of the shelves other than herself. There is a window with sunlight beaming down onto the floor. Examining closely, Ilsa Hermann noticed footprints that belonged to Liesel when she snuck in several times to steal books.
While the cover contains a certain sense of symbolism, explained in the chapter Dominoes and Darkness as a sort of metaphor for death and people dying, as well as indicating the chain reactions resulting from something like, say, stealing a book, I thought that it was perhaps not the most relevant imagery. Out of curiosity, I thought I would look up images of the Book Thief to see if there were other covers for the book and came across one that I really adored:
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To me, the portrayal of Death as a shadow really fits with the onlooker feel he gives as a narrator and the ominous way death looms above us for our entire life until it takes us. This imagery depicts the way Death observed Liesel’s life, watching her grow up out of curiosity even he didn’t fully understand.
I don’t like, however, that Death is depicted in the typical “robed figure with a scythe” way, which he explicitly states he is NOT. But I guess you can’t always have your cake and eat it too.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect image for how I imagine Max Vandenburg to look like when he's in the basement. The basement is cold and dark, with little to no light creeping in from the top. The light only shines down whenever someone, whether it be Hans, Rosa, or Liesel, comes down to visit him. Due to it being unsafe to come out because he could be discovered, risking the lives of not only himself, but those who protected him, he is often lonely. The image has a negative tone, which also represents the overall feeling of the situation.
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ReplyDeleteI think this image represents the power of words in the novel, and there are two different ways I interpret this picture. To me, the white things at the bottom of the picture are like Hitler’s Nazis, and they are listening to all the words Hitler (the person at the base of the tree) is saying. But Hitler’s words are all mixed up and meaningless, because he knows that if he says something that sounds powerful his followers will listen and agree. Another way that I see this picture is where Max is the one at the bottom of the tree, and all around him are the words. He knew that words were what gave you power, and without words, you were powerless. This picture looks like something Max would have drawn for Liesel, because he knew she loved words and understood that anyone could take words and twist them around into lies, like Hitler did regarding the Jews. So my two thought on this picture both kind of relate back to the power of words, and how people use them, for good and for bad.
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ReplyDeleteI think this picture is a great representation of Liesel and Rudy’s friendship with each other. Ever since the first time he saw her, Rudy fell in love with Liesel, and was continually chasing her to get a kiss. Their relationship was very carefree and playful, and even loving, because they were best friends. Rudy stuck with Liesel whenever she was sad, hurt, left out, and even when she wanted to help the Jews, which could have led him into trouble as well. This shows the love Rudy had for Liesel, and I think it was very sad when Liesel finally kissed him at the end of the novel, because she had loved him all along too, and regretted not kissing him before he died.
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ReplyDeleteTo me, this looks like what Rosa would use to give Liesel a “watschen”. Even though the spoons are not in a can, I am sure that Rosa Hubermann would love to get her hands on them.
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ReplyDeleteWhile skimming and scamming though different pictures, I accidentally noticed this one and it immediately reminded me of our famous narrator - Death. The person in the picture turned his back to is, which creates a mystery about his face, mood and appearance. The same feelings of unknown I have when try to imagine Death character. But from his own descriptions of himself, "I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it is cold...” this picture totally fits the image created in my head: Mysterious...solitary…unexpected....powerful... intimidating and very natural.
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ReplyDeleteIf Liesel could just sit and read in her room all day, this is what I think a corner of her room would look like.
This is a picture of Hitler's youth. Basically it just looks like kids that look like they are in the army, which I think was the actual purpose of this group. How unfortunate.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture is how I imagined the town that Liesel and her momma and papa lived in. The picture has the style of the homes I imagined that Liesel's family would be living in, but not as big as the picture provided.
@ Elvina
ReplyDeleteI think that is a perfect image of Death. It creates a very mysterious feeling in the dark space all around him and the way the light is bending around his just emphasises the effect. This picture helps me remember that even though Death is not a physical being, he was very real to many people during this time period and during other wars.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I saw this picture I immediately thought of Rudy and his siblings setting up rows of dominos and the look on their faces when they collapsed. Then they start over. The more I looked at the picture the more details I could pull from it. I realised that the dominos casted huge shadows to the left, and it reminded me of my own shadow when I am walking outside. Then I saw that the far end of the domino line was already falling over. That the camera had only frozen the image there for a split second then it continued on, knocking each one down. This is when I realised that what I was looking at was more like a line of people and in this case, a line of Jewish people. I suddenly felt very lucky to be sitting in the comforts of my home and knowing that tomorrow morning I would go to school, just like any other day. Here in Canada we don’t have to worry about things like wars and bombings in the middle of the night, and know I am looking at things a little differently.
I was intrigued when I first read 'The Standover Man', which Max Vandenburg had written for Liesel. Even though his illustrations are primitive and childish, there is deeper meaning to them when you add the element of the words. After all, the power of words is one of the most obvious themes in this novel, which was a point I think Max was trying to make with his story. At the beginning of Max's short story for Liesel, he drew about a large bird standing over him, a small, defenseless bird. I think this mostly symbolizes the fact that he is a Jew, who is controlled by the Nazis and Hitler, and he feels they have complete power over him. But at the end of Max's story, he wrote: "On her birthday, it was she who gave a gift - to me." and, "It makes me understand that the best standover man I've ever known is not a man at all..." (both Zusak, 235) This symbolizes the fact that Liesel gave Max the gifts of trust and friendship. Also, she was represented by a standover(wo)man, but in a different way than the Nazis and Hitler. She stood over Max like she was protecting him, and giving him the support and hope he needed during the tough times in his life.
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ReplyDeleteThis image reminds me of the Word Shaker story that Max created. In the background of the picture, it reminds me of smoke that could've came from the bomb in the book. When the Word Shaker leaves the tree and all of them start to tumble down, this image makes me think that after the bombing of Himmel Street, in a forest somewhere, this one tree remains, like the one thegirl in the story tried to protect. Pages 448 - 450 show the girl protecting the tree and not leaving no matter what and then on page 450, the image on the top left corner demonstrates how tall the tree is and she is standing with a man. Once she climbs down, the tree starts to shake and collapses on the earth, bringing down miles of a forest. On the horizontal trunk, she and the man walk away while listening to the many words they hear people saying. I think the people in that story are Max and Liesel. The tree is like his will, standing tall and strong no matter how many people try to break him and Liesel is the one person protecting him, helping him and looks at him at a equal level. When he and Liesel are together, his will didn't 'fall' like the tree did, it's simply like a long road or path that he takes. A happy road, hopefully and guides him to the right places.
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ReplyDeleteThis is basically what I imagine Herr and Frau Hermann's mansion to look like. There would be a window on the side where the library is though.
I chose this photo because i wanted to show how the most German soldiers are treating Jewish people. German soldiers are treating jewish people like cockroaches because people just get insects exterminated and killed then don't feel any pain at all for them.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Liesel went into the mayors wifes home she saw all of the books in the library. I imagined that the in home library would somewhat look like the picture I found. It has a desk for where the mayors wife sat and books all around the room.
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ReplyDeleteI chose to use this picture for Rosa because she is ironing. She is irnoning because she has to make a living to feed her family so she does the rich families laundry. She also looks exhausted, Rosa in the book was always complaining about not having time for herself.
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ReplyDeleteThis image shows the basement that Max was living in, it was a lonely place the book mentioned and light never showed. The only time he got to see outside was when the bombs were coming and no one was around to see him.
This is an overhead view of Dachua, the first concentration camp of the holocaust.It's much larger then I would have expected, but it does make sense after thinking about the amount of Jews that were brought there.
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This is the way I picture death being, not scary, just a normal guy. Since he is always talking how it is a job he was given and something that he has to do. At one point he speaks about the image humans think of him as and how he doesn't relate to it at all. Not too mention Larry the Cable guy would be a pretty sweet narrator.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book it said "He was eight months older than Liesel and had bony legs, sharp teeth, gangly blue eyes, and hair the color of a lemon." It also said that he was a dirty kid. I chose this picture because the boy in the picture has blonde hair and is dirty from playing soccer. Rudy fits this description.
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ReplyDeleteWhen i saw this picture it made me think of how whenever anybody walks into Frau Dillers grocery store they have to say Heil hitler and do the arm action or they will not be helped by her.
This is how I pictured the gas chambers in the novel.
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It turns out that they really look like this one. I never thought it would just be a big open room. The Jews were just told that they were going to take a shower, and then were murdered by the gas that was pumped through the disguised shower heads.
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ReplyDeleteThis is definetely how I picture Rosa Hubermann. Yelling at Liesel for doing something that she didn't like. She fits this picture almost perfectly.
This is the way I picture Rosa Hubermann, the only way it contrdicts Deaths statement about her is that she doesn't have her hair in a bun. I could see her running around with a wooden spoon and swearing at people no problem.
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I actually really like The Standover Man book that Max made. First off, I think it was one of the only important pieces of the book that I actually understood the first time I read it. I love how the drawings are so different. Like, he didn’t actually draw himself, he drew a bird. This would reflect how Liesel once said that his hair reminded her of feathers, and he had overheard.
ReplyDeleteI also like to think of the first page as a kind of metaphor. It looks a lot like the black “Standover man” is his own shadow. It symbolizes in my mind that maybe he is afraid or ashamed of himself for being a Jew, which is why he feels so bad for staying that the Hubermann’s house, sentences himself to the basement, and offers to only eat scraps.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture because it made me think of when Leisel and Hans are reading and Leisel has to write all of the words that she does'nt understand on the wall. When I read that in the book i thought that that was a very weird thing to do, but mind you I have never been in the position where I have had no paper or where I did'nt know the words that I was reading.
One thing i hated about reading all these blogs was people comparing the Book Thief with To Kill A Mockingbird. Yet I got to say the way I picture Hans Hubermann is pretty close to Atiicus in the movie of To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the book they act pretty well the same towards their kids and other people, they were both very kind and smoked pounds of tobacco.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture deffinately reminds me of when Liesel walks into the Herman family's home. The only thing that this picture is missing is a girl who's going crazy because there are so many books that she can read.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture makes me think of the business area of Munich. Jewish businesses all got vandalised because they had the Star of David painted on their door, and Hans helped repaint some. I pictured the buildings with a few more windows, but besides that this is what I thought of when I read about the vandalised businesses.
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ReplyDeleteI obviously know that this picture looks nothing like Hitler at all. But when Max has his dream fight with him I see Hitler doing something very close to this, being very patriotic and making the crowd believe him. And if Hitler really did look like the guy in this picture I don't think anyone would really believe anything he said.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of the train that Liesel sat in at the very beginning with her mom and her dying brother. "Yes, it was white. It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it had pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater." (Page 6) There is snow everywhere in the picture. I can imagine inside, Death would be staring into Liesel's eyes or her face when she witnesses her brother's death.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a picture of The Gravedigger's Handbook when it was found in the snow after Liesel was about to leave the cemetery. Although she did not know how to read, the book meant a lot to Liesel and she insisted that her foster father read all of it to her. This book is the only reminder of her brother, who died on the train ride, and her mother, who she was separated from.
On the cover of this book there is the domino picture and im at about page 430 in the book and it has mentioned the dominos but it didnt seem to be so signifigant that it should be on the cover of the book. This kind of ties in with the Q&A section of the blog but does anyone know the importance?
ReplyDeleteThis is how i see max sleeping while holding the book he made for liesel. Of course it would be a guy not a girl.
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This is exactally how i imagined the Hitler Youth School uniform.
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After reading The Word Shaker starting on page 445, the girl living in the tree and refusing to come down reminded me of an episode I watched a long time ago of The Simpsons, where Lisa decides to spend a night living up in a redwood tree to protect it from being cut down (Lisa the Tree Hugger).
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After reading some posts about what people imagine the character Death to look like, I have to totally disagree. I don't see him as a grim reaper who enjoys collecting the souls of people. You can tell be reading his words that he doesn't think of his job as a pleasure or fun. I think of the character Death as someone who has been chosen for this job and lives with it against his will. When he says "I shiver when I remember (Aushwitz concentration camp)..." on page 350 you can tell that he is not someone that enjoys seeing the sight of death.
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ReplyDeleteI thought this picture would represent Himmel Street pretty well, if it were a residential area. It looks so dark and gloomy because it's at night, but during the day I'm sure it's a street that could be full of life and joyfulness.
Also, if you want to look at it in a deeper mood, it's very foggy. I'd like to think that the fog could possibly represent the secrets are are being hidden on Himmel Street. It's really thick and hard to see through, but you manage to get by, anyways, no matter how difficult it may be.
When I read the part of the book where the air raid sirens went off and the Hubermanns had to go down the street to the Fiedlers basement. The way the basement was described I pictured a very dark and creepy basement made out of either stone or mud and crowded with people. This picture represents exactly how I pictured it but dark with a dim light and crowded with people.
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@Breanne
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you about the Dominoes on the front cover, you'd think it would be something more significant in the novel like the grave diggers handbook, or the book max wrote. Although the dominoes could apply to the book in a different way. For example the Domino effect states it is "a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence." This statement could apply to the whole war, including Nazism and the Jewish concentration camps since they all started out in one area and slowly caught on somewhere else, and then spread throughout Germany.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a picture of a bed that has been made wet by a kid. This resembles the part in the book were Liesel got scared in the night and wet the bed. I feel that part in the book was really important because it showed us the actual bond between Hans and her. "He lifted her gently from the bed and carried her to the washroom."(pg 63) This shows how much he really cared about her. It was shown many times before that he cared about her but i feel this was just the finishing touch. You could imagine a father picking up his daughter after the first time she wet the bed carrying her to the washroom. I could see a real father getting grossed out by it but Hans did not hesitate at all and she is not even his real daughter.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture shows what I thought Liesel would look like after the bombing when she was found in the basement. Of course there are more than one child in the picture but imagine that there's only one. In the picture the children don't look happy and you can tell that something happened in the background. This is along the same lines as Liesel and the situation she was in.
This is how I pictured the Nazis marching in Molching with all of the Jews. This was when Hans fed one of them and then they both got beaten. The first picture is of the Nazi's marching and the second is of how they made the Jew's dress in order to tell them apart, and how they would have appeared in the march.
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An image that kept coming up in the novel was a tree or a plant. On page 445 it said that Hitler was planting seeds and making everyone his own. Also Liesel's and Max's friendship was made with a tear that feel on him from Liesel and that tear turned into a seed. The seed kept growing and it eventually turned into a plant. This was how Liesel and Max's friendship was, it was slow at the start but, with every second they spent together the see grew and they became even better friends. Also in the 2nd story that max wrote to Liesel they described her in a tree and no one could cut the tree down not even Hitler and his axe. Then Max came and instead of cutting it down he took a hammer and nails and climbed up the tree and went all the way up to Liesel and that's how they became friends.
ReplyDeleteHere are some pictures of a tear turning into a seed and another picture of a seed growing which symbolizes their friendship.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of when Max is imagining that he is in a boxing match against Hitler. The first thing that i thought of when i saw this picture was when death was describing the fantasy, where hitler is in one corner with has entourage.
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ReplyDeleteWhen i forst saw this picture it reminded me of Rudy. It reminds me of Rudy because he always dreams that he is Jessie Owens. this picture in particular though reminds me of the time when Rudy and Liesel were racing and death describes the mud between their toes. In this picture that is what it looks like Jessie Owens is doing except for he has shoes on.
I chose this picture to represent how German people would be enjoying on Hitlers birthday, and how they would be celebrating it. People loved Hitler so much the made his birthday an holiday.
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This next picture I chose is from the beginning of the novel. This picture is reminding me of when Liesel was on her way to the Hubbermanns residence, but she was so scared she wouldn't come out of the car and go to the Hubbermanns home.
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the only thing about this picture is there are no people in it....sorry.
I believe that this picture accurately depicts the influence and hope Hitler drilled into millions of his followers heads (Basically the modern day Obama). Some believe that hitler was a genius with the wrong idea, and with the millions of people and numerous countries awaiting his every command, lots of people believe he could've accomplished greater things than just attempting to wipe out a race/religion. Still today Hitler vaguely glued to the minds of millions, and I believe for generations to come it will stay this way!
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The images in Max’s story “The Standover Man” carry a potent message of dominance. For his whole life he’s been looked down upon and living in the shadows of life. He says “I suppose my first standover man was my father.” (p. 225, page 2 of the Standover Man) which demonstrates that he was born into this lifestyle and sense of inferiority. They also reveal his true weaknesses; he’s genuinely scared. “I tried not to sleep because I was afraid of who might be there when I woke up.” (p. 227) Then at the same time, they show how Liesel has touched his heart and what their friendship means to them, even as it was still blossoming. “As time passed by, the girl and I realized we had things in common.” (p. 229) and then “Now I think we are friends, this girl and me. [...] It makes me understand that the best standover man I’ve ever known is not a man at all.” (p. 233) The final image symbolizes the thing that really brought them together: words. Most importantly, the word “Valuable” three times, which shows what their friendship is to him.
ReplyDeleteThis is how I imagined the Hitler Youth gatherings. All of the children standing at attention waiting for orders, like little robots that Hitler controls.
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I really enjoyed the illustrations that were drawn for us in the book. I thought they were very creative and artistic. When you read 50 pages at a time its nice to have a little break and enjoy the "unique" drawings.
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ReplyDeleteI have seen this picture last year but when I read about Rudy's character I imagined this kid. Despite the black and white photo, the kid in the picture looks like he is 9 years old and has lemon yellow hair just like Rudy. "Facts about Rudy Steiner. He was eight months older than Liesel.... And hair the colour of lemon."(Zusak, 48)
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ReplyDeleteI made this model out of Lego online, unfortunately I could only choose limited Lego parts thus I could not give Max a rusty scissor. This diagram represents the time when a division of the NSDAP which stands for NationalSozialistische Deutsche ArbeiterPartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) was inspecting Liesel's basement if it was capable of being an air raid shelter. I made Max all black so he looks like he's in the dark holding a pair of scissors. Also, when the Nazi solder came into Liesel house he seems like a friendly guy and he likes to joke around, like the time when he called Liesel a maniacal soccer player so I made him look friendly.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture is suppose to represent the scene on page 152 when Rudy was stealing apples, I chose this picture to represent how desperately hungry Rudy was along with the rest of the kids that were also stealing apples to deal with their hunger
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ReplyDeleteI made another model out of Lego online, unfortunately I could only choose limited Lego parts so instead of making every Jew different I made them identical except for Max. This diagram represents the time when Liesel found Max in a Jew parade. (Zusak, 510) The word parade usually means a large crowd therefore I created approximately 100 Jews in two lines. You can also see a Nazi soldier nearby in the image.
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ReplyDeleteI made another model out of Lego online, unfortunately I could only choose limited Lego parts so I could not create a realistic boxing ring. This diagram represents Max's dream when Max was boxing against Hitler. Max was beating the heck out of Hitler but Hitler made a dirty move by calling his German audience to come forward and join with him. This is how I pictured the Germans surrounding Max, Hitler in the corner calling everyone to come forward and a girl in the back of the crowd.
I think that the picture on the cover has a deep meaning as well. I believe that the dominoes symbolize people and the way they are set up show how they can easily be knocked down/killed. The hand about to push them over is like death. I believe that the way it's shown and how he hasn't pushed the dominoes over yet displays how he has total control of when he tells of these peoples deaths and also explaining how they died. Basically he can just say someone is going to die just not give details.
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