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Post by elizabuchanan on Aug 28, 2017 10:03:01 GMT -5
The Mayor's Wife sees Leisel steal a book from the previously burning pile of them during a celebration of Hitler's birthday, April 20. Leisel suspects so, and nervously walks up her front porch steps for laundry duty. The Mayor's wife gives no sign of knowing that Leisel took the book (the books were "filth" and against the teachings of the Furher). But the second time, the Mayor's wife lets her long her fingers along the books in her library, basking in their prescence. Do you think that Ilsa told her husband about the little library girl? Was this a small act of rebellion against him?
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Post by hannahnegri on Aug 28, 2017 11:59:13 GMT -5
I don't think that Isla Hermann told her husband about the library girl, because if she had, I'm sure she would have no longer been able to gain access to the library. During the story we are able to see that Isla lives her life in perpetual misery, and chooses to, because of the loss of her son. We also see that because of the child's last name, it was most certainly also the mayor's child. I believe Isla probably resents her husband for not living his life the way she does, as a shell of a human being, and brought Liesel to the library as an act of rebellion against her husband.
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Post by melanie on Aug 30, 2017 20:33:52 GMT -5
I agree with Hannah that Ilsa Hermann did not tell the mayor about the library girl, or else he would have fired Rosa a lot earlier in the book. However, the author mentions Ilsa used to have a son, and I think Liesel's presence fills the empty hole her son left.
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