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Post by chacek on Aug 19, 2017 12:51:32 GMT -5
Liesel Meminger lived to be an old woman. Death says that he would like to tell the book thief about beauty and brutality, but those are two things that she had lived through. To what extent does Liesel’s life represent beauty in the wake of brutality?
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Post by eliasrust on Aug 19, 2017 14:39:46 GMT -5
When she is bombed at the end of the story and all the people she loved are dying, she is so innocent that she doesn't even realize what is happening. Despite all of this horror, she still sees beauty in the world like an innocent child. She wonders why the sky is red and wonders why it is "snowing" and why the snowflakes are hot and burn her skin. What she doesn't realize is that the "snowflakes" are really pieces of ash. Despite all of the horror she was going through, she still saw "snowflakes" in the sky.
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Post by Mete Bakircioglu on Aug 22, 2017 1:31:46 GMT -5
Many scenes which involved Liesel facing adversity also had the incorporation of beauty, or a silver lining in it. One of the strongest supporting passages of this idea was when Liesel spotted Max in the trek to Dachau and even after a whipping from a Nazi officer, she managed to set aside the pain and stand beside Max. "There were heavy beams—planks of sun—falling randomly, wonderfully to the road." Only after watching Max endure the same punishment as she had minutes earlier did the beauty Liesel was seeing dissipate into pure hatred towards the Nazi party.
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