THE SUMMER OF 1942

Liesel is saying in her written words that summer was a new beginning and a new end. When Liesel looked back  to the summer, she remembers her slippery hands of paint and the sound of papa's feet on Munich street.Liesel knows that a small piece of the summer belongs to only one man. And that is papa.
Papa gets paid with a price of half a cigarette.
  The first time Liesel drinks champagne she was slightly put off by the coolness of her cup, then she looked at papa for approval he grinned and said "prost,madel- cheers girl."(Zusak 357). When she went to take a drink she was bitten by the sweet taste of the champagne. Her reflexes made her spit up on papa's overalls. Then the laughed and she took another drink and this time she swallowed it. Papa asked her why she asked for champagne? Why not she asked. He looked at her and said, "I didn't want you thinking that champagne bottles are only used for rolling paint."(Zusak 357).

     A very special day for me is when my family had a family reunion a couple years ago. It was special to me because I got to be around my family and friends  plus that was the last day that I seen my great grandmother alive. That was special to me because I got to see her for the last time before she went to heaven. That day I could smell the beautiful outdoors and taste the beauty of the day. We ate, played games, and showed each other how much we love each other.

Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.

THE FLOATING BOOK PART 2

The floating book is the book Liesel is reading called "The Whistler."  She likes to carry it and  feel it in her hand, either the spine or the rough edges of paper. One day, Liesel was carrying the book as she walked with Rudy when they ran into Viktor Chemmel and his friends.  Viktor began tormenting Liesel about her book, so she tried to act like it wasn't important to her.  Viktor said, "I'll tell you what fifty marks and you can have it back" (Zusak 301). Unfortunately for Liesel, "she knew the exact moment when Viktor Chemmel established that the book was a prize possession" (Zusak 301).  Chemmel grabs the book from Liesel and throws it in the river.  Rudy shows his loyalty to Liesel by saving the book after Viktor Chemmel threw it in the riverbank. Afterwards, Rudy wants to kiss Liesel because he has longed to kiss her for so long and he loves her so much.

 I've shown loyalty to all my best friends by helping them with whatever problems they have.  If they need money, then I'll give it to them because I trust my friends to pay me back.  I am also very loyal to my boyfriend who I love with all my heart. We have been together 5 years and he lives in Wisconsin but we have remained very loyal to each other. We have never cheated on each other and we have a wonderful bond when we are together. We can talk about anything and we barely ever fight. I'm also very loyal when it comes to church and things like that. I'm loyal to my grandma and grandpa; whenever they ask me to do something, I do it.  If my grandparents ask me to go get something for them I go and get it.  I am very loyal to the people I love and I hope they are just as loyal to me.

Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.

*********THE STORY OF MAX'S LIFE, AND THE STORY OF MY LIFE***************

Max writes about his thoughts instead of about his life. He said that the thoughts felt true and they were more real than the letters he wrote to his family or best friend Walter Kugler. The pages were becoming a series of sketches which to him summed the events that had swapped his former life. Some of the sketches took minutes and others took hours. He said to himself when all the nonsense was over he would give the book to Liesel when she was old enough. Liesel was seeing sketches of Hitler and the nazis having meetings and all the dead bodys that the nazis had killed.

"Holy Christ,Liesel grasped you scared me Max."(pg.281)


Yes she did not shrink or step away. All I ask is a small part of anything we take. A dozen apples here or there. A few leftovers for me and my friend."(pg.273)
 

My life story is I was born on march 14th 1991 at Broadlawns medical center. My mom was 15 when she had me. When I was two  my mom had 3 other kids and she could no longer take care of us so we went to court and she signed her rights away. So then we went to foster care, and a couple weeks later I went to live with my grandma and my sister wnet to live with her grandma. Then when I was 5 I went to live with my dad and my older brother and my step mom. When I was 6 my brother molested me and I was scared and didn't know what to do so I waited to tell my dad until my brother moved out.  Life was going good all through my younger school years till I was 10 when my dad and step mom got a divorce. My dads new girlfriend had two sons and they were bad and my dad was always so angry. Then when I was about 13 or 14 my dad got back on drugs so I went to live back with my grandma. When I got in high school thats when my life started to change, I started hanging out with the wrong people and started drinking and always partying and never coming home.Then one day I got a phone call and it was my mom I hadn't talked to her in 10 years. My grandma couldnt handle me anymore so she sent me to live with my mom. My mom was not the person I thought she was gonna be. She was so angry and a alcoholic and a pot smoker, she made my life hell. When my little brother thats 1 was born she went to jail so I had to drop out of school and take care of him and my other little brother and my little sister. When she got out I couldn't   take it anymore so I moved out and went to live with my friend, Then I met my boyfriend. He was the nicest person I ever met. Then 5 months later I found out I was pregnant. Our relationship did not last because he was to controlling so I left him. Now here I am and I live with my grandma againand im prgnant still and im going to school. Thats my life story.

Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.

 

THE STANDOVER

Leisel is different from Max because she is a german. Also her family has been killed so she has been through a lot. Max is a jew trying to change his life and pass off as a german. They both have been through a lot and they can relate to each other in a lot of ways.

"All my life I've been scared of men standing over me"(237)


"Three days they told me... and what did I find when i wake up?"(237)




Max came to stay with Leisel and her family and after a while they became friends and got to know each other. She would watch him sleep. They both arrived in a state of agitation on himmel street and they both had nightmares. Max also once grabbed her by her arm and pressed his nails in her skin until papa came and Max let go.

I can relate to them because ive been through so much in my life that they the things I have experinced still haunt me till this day. I have been molested by my brother when I was 6 and till this day he never said sorry to me so i think thats why it still comes back to me and I also still have dreams about it. I have been been abused by my mother and the painful and dramatic stuff I went through with her caused me alot  of pain and suffering and i have nightmares sometimes. So yea I can relate to the nightmares.

They can relate to each other and they both can relate to max's story. They both have nightmares about traumatic things.  They both had been scared of men standing over them their whole lives. They both liked to fight. And they both have struggled their whole lives.


Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.

THE STRUGGLE

When Max was on the train he was reading Mein Kampf. He was trying to learn about hitler and his book because he was trying to pass off as a german. He shaved and combed his  hair. He had a sense of nausea  in his stomach. He walked to the train and gave him his id and his ticket. "He sat directly in dangers spotlight". On the train he was tryin not to look up from the book. Even though he keep turning the pages he only was only able to taste to words and they were Mein Kampf.

"Walter opened Mein Kampf and slid it inside, next  to the map he'd brought the book itself. Pages thirteen"(158)

"Im leaving soon his friend Walter Kugler told him. You know how the army is"(158)




There were times in my life when i tried to convince people that i was somebody that i was not. I always use to try to fit in with people by smoking, drinking.. I use to hang around people that always were trying to fight people and never listened to their parents or never went to school so to fit in I did the same thing. Also I use to make people think that I  really didnt care about them but thats not really  the type of person that i am. I am a person who cares about people and loves everybody even my enemies, and i really am a good person who listens to what shes told. Im not a person who does drugs and drinks.

Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.

HITLERS YOUTH

The hitlers youth was basically a movement for children of German culture. It was created in the 1920's. By 1933 there were 100,000 children that were members. In 1936 there were 4 millions members. They were ages 10 to 18. There was separate organizations for boys and girls. The section for boys was to prepared them for war and the girls for motherhood.

The boys had many millitary athletics including, marching,bayonet drill,grenade throwing,trench digging, map reading, gas defence,use of dugouts,how to get under bobwire, and pistol shooting. Girls had to know to run 60 meters,do a two hour march,swim 100 meters, and make a bed.

The hitler movement was  over seen by Balder Von Shirach. The hitler youth personified German disipline. School teachers complained that the boys and girls were so tires that the couldnt stay awake during class. By 1938 the attendance with hitler youth meetings were so poor tht it was 25 percent so the authorities tightened it up by a law in 1939 making attendance compulsory.

Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.

STOLEN BOOK #2

"If you were being flippant about it, you'd say that all it took was a little bit of fire,really, and some human shouting to go along with it."(83)


The second book was stolen on April 20,1940. When liesel stold the second book she was very persistant with what she was doing. She went in and got the book without watching what was going on around her. The book was in a  fire and still liesel grabbed the book and took off. While she was getting away the book was still burning from the fire so it started to smoke in her hands and burn her skin and ribs.liesel   is being very brave because no matter what is going on she goes in and gets her mission completed no matter what the consequences are.

"And it would show me, that once again, that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, death to more death"(83)

The book i would have to steal would one of the books about the slaves because those kinds of books tell me about my history. Also those kinds of stories really let you know about how slavery was back then and how the slaves were treated and how they lived their everyday lives.They tell about there families and how they got sold or tooken away or how they had to work in the cotton fields of even for their masters.

My family and my unborn child are the dearest things to me because my family takes care off each other. we try not to let each other hurt, we also help each other out  with whatever it is that we need help with. We are always caring for each other with anything. Most important we are there for each other when are  down and have nobody to turn to.

No matter what it is I will always help my bestfriend out with whatever it is she needs help with. We have been friends since the 6th grade and we have always had each others backs. So yes no matter what it was i would go all out to help my friend with any thing she ever needs help with because she has always been there for me no matter what it was so im going to do the same.

Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.

COLORS AND EMOTIONS

"Deaths colors were dark" I can relate to deaths colors because my favorite colors are dark. When i try to hide my emotions i feel like a dark cloud is around me cuz i keep them bottled up inside me and dont let them out. i walk around feeling black and blue sometimes because of  life. I have a good heart like death also i try and help people and not let them get into bad situations. Death always had dark colors around him and always was going to help somebody. Then  at the begining of the book he told us about the colors red whit and black for the flag with the swastica. Usually when death comes around the people die but when death comes around Leisle he keeps her around and keeps an eye on her. So i can relate to deaths  colors and emotions.


Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.

THE SURVIVAL OF EVA GALLER

She was born in a city in poland named Olezyce. Their community  had 7,000 families, and half of them were Jews. Her father was the head of jewish community. When she was an infant her mother lost four children. Her father had a business of distributing religious articles. To make these articles they would stretch animal skin on a frame to make the parchment. Then the partchment would be cut into sheets. Then the scribes would write the letters on the parchment. It took the scribes a whole year to to write a torah. They then sewed the parchment sheets together into the scrolls with threads made of animals sinews. The jews fand the non-jews in our town did not mix socially only when it came to buisness. The christians were told the jews killed christ.  People didnt believe the nazis would come until they saw the airplanes. In the next couple days germans occupied all of Poland. Then there wasnt anything anyone could do about it. On the evening of june 1941 here family wnt to sleep and about 6 o'clock sunday morning they heard gun shots. They saw the german motorcycles  going down the street and the soldiers were shooting right and left. Who ever was in the street got killed for sure. They had to do what the germans wanted or they would be killed. Jews were not allowed to walk on the sidewalksthey had t o walk down the middle of the street.

In january of 1943 the Nazi's took her family to cattle trains where people were running away from the trains but then they were shot. Once they got on the train they had to stand up because there was no room to sit. Then a young boy tore the bobwire off the windows so people started to jump out. Then their father the   oldest three to run because they might survive. Her brother jumped out first then her sister then her and the SS men shot at them Eva landed in a snow bank, then she looked she was not shot but when she looked back her brother and her sister were dead and at this time Eva was 17. She then went back to her hometown and went into hiding. She had to survive off a loaf of bread and 25 polish zlotys. She then had to leave so she went to another family members house but was scared so she went and spent two nights in the train station. Then she met this great guy and as her life was going good she had he first daughter. By May 1954 she had two other kids wich were girls. After the war she was very sick emotionally and physically. Then in 1985 she graduated from the university of New Orleans. Now her and her husband go to different school to talk about the holocaust.


         What ive learned from this is you have to be strong no matter what because back then the jews had it really hard and they couldnt fight back even if they wanted  to. And they lost almost everything that they had because of the nazis.


Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.