Self Sacrifice In The Book Thief By Markus Zusak

This quote is emphasizing how the life of a Jew was during this time throughout the novel. No matter what these Jews did they would always get punished and sent away. In the novel, Max is an important character because he is a Jew and was being hidden in the Hubermann household until he knew he needed to leave to stay safe. This shows that you knew what these people were going to be like if they were in the Nazi party because they were all the same and all there to do the same thing, making Jew’s lives miserable. “With tears in her eyes, she saw the man slide farther forward, pushing Papa back to cry into his ankles…

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty four hours a day. That was the business of hiding a Jew.” (page 211) B. I think the message that the author is trying to convey is that there was so much pressure put on the Hubermann’s and Liesel when it came to keeping Max safe. They were completely selfless and put Max before themselves and I think one of the book's themes is courage.

Self-sacrifice is when some doesn't do something for themselves to help others. The value of self-sacrifice is taught through several pieces of literature such as The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Outsiders, and The Maze Runner. In the lion the witch and the wardrobe self-sacrifice is shown. Self-sacrifice is shown when Aslan dies.

It is the goal of numerous people in the world to eventually find their identity, or, in other words: who they are. Numerous aspects of life can determine who someone is. It may be through whom they meet, the things they do, or the events that take place in their lives that define them. In addition, a person may find their identity in their belongings or their family. However, in the beginning of the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel already has a clear sense of who he is, and is mostly content with his identity.

Markus Zusak the author of The Book Thief uses flashback throughout the story to explain and articulate the events that occur. In part four of the book, Zusak uses flashback throughout to help describe Max Vandenburg and Hans Hubermann’s past life. The first time flashback is used in part four of The Book Thief is when Hans Hubermann describes his life during World War I. This helps create a more thorough backstory for Hans, while it also helps explain why an unknown relationship exists between Max and Hans.

The film Schindler 's List stands among the most successful and noteworthy Holocaust films of the twentieth century. It portrays the moral development of one Oskar Schindler, a rising Nazi businessman, who saved roughly one thousand Jewish prisoners of the Krakow Ghetto by employing them at his factory. By heavily bribing Nazi officials and outsourcing his production, Schindler was able to his deem his Jewish workers essential to the war effort, saving them from otherwise certain death. Like all films, Schindler 's List has its strengths and weaknesses. The director 's decision to begin in full color with candles which fade into black and white not only helps the viewer enter a solemn and serious mindset, but it also minimizes distractions as to focus solely on the film 's message while the story unfolds.

The Book Thief written by Mark Zusak presents Liesel, an orphan, being fostered by Hans Hubermann and his wife Rosa Hubermann. Hans, Liesel’s foster dad, rejects the Nazi party membership and aids the Jewish people in his neighborhood angering the party. Hans Huberman rebels against the Nazi party through his lack of membership, feeding a jewish man, and painting over racial slurs written on jewish businesses. Hans Hubermann rejects Nazi ideals through his lack of party membership. When discussing the repercussions of painting over racial slurs, Death explained, “While many people were instantly approved, he was added to a waiting list, regarded with suspicion”(124).

Hitler took many things away from Max, including his parents. Max’s book The Standover Man was about a “bird” (man) that was always being told what to do. Max helps Liesel to understand how he was treated, and that he was afraid of loosing his life. However, Liesel helps Max to understand that he should not be afraid of “The Standover Man”.

Hans Hubermann, Liesel’s foster father, helped Jewish people in whatever way he could. When a Jewish shop named Kleinmann’s was vandalized, Hans asked the owner if he needed any help cleaning up, and promised to come back the next day and paint his door, which he did (Zusak 181-182). Hans delayed applying to the Nazi party because he didn’t agree with their beliefs, and by helping the owner he was put under more suspicion, however he felt that it was a proper action and didn’t allow danger to stop him. In addition to Hans act of kindness, the Hubermanns took a Jew named Max into their care, and allowed him to stay with them to be safe. In a book overview, Tabitha Hall observes, “Though not Jewish, Liesel and her foster parents struggle as they keep their Jewish friend hidden…” (“Overview: The Book Thief”).

Hans loved his cigarettes, but he loved his family more. He would rather make Liesel happy then himself. Hans’s sacrifice of cigarettes helped to give a deeper meaning to the theme of love. In conclusion, there are many sacrifices in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

One by one they climbed into the ring and beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer." (Zusak 254). Max is struggling to understand that he's a Jew, doesn't understand why people hate him and why people follow Hitler.

To love is to risk. Whether that is risking life, belief, health, or reputation, it is still a risk at any rate to give devotion to another. No era in history knows this better than during the Holocaust. Still, the most unexpected of people would die trying to help Jews escape persecution, they would help others who didn't share the same moral foundation as they did, they would share food rations when they barely had enough for themselves, or they would risk their public standing and forever be labeled as a sympathizer just to help a suffering soul regain his balance. Similarly, Markus Zusak's The Book Thief demonstrates a complete comprehension of how humans act against self preservation and individual comfort when challenged with harrowing situations that appeal to their own personal connections.

Markus Zusak has assembled ‘The Book Thief’ using a variety of narrative conventions. These include a unique narrative viewpoint, plot structure and use of imagery, all of which provide meaning to the reader. (33 words) A narrative’s point of view refers to who is telling the story. In this case Zusak’s narrator identifies himself as Death.

The book The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a dystopian/fantasy book about a large group of boys being trapped in a functioning society surrounded by a maze (with deadly monsters inside) which they’ve been scouring for two years, until Thomas came. Then Teresa followed him there two days later and changed everything. In this book, two very present themes are “Working together gets stuff done better and faster” and “Sacrifices for the greater good are always worth.” These themes are shown by the Gladers struggle to escape the Maze and the things they do to escape. The first theme that became noticeable was that “working together gets things done better and faster.”

Roman Polanski’s The Pianist tells the story about a Polish Jew pianist living in Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland. The story follows his life during the Holocaust, hiding from place to place in his Nazi-filled city. Roman Polanski made this film to show the cruelties that are commonly associated with the Holocaust. This tragedy caused some people to take measures to save themselves from being sent to their deaths in the German camps.