The Book Thief: Entry 2

The characters in my book certainly have a complexity to them, especially Liesel the main character. Everyone at school thinks of her as this dumb little girl who can't read, mostly because she never went to school until she was 11, so no one ever taught her how to read. She finds this one book at her little brother's funeral, and brings it with her when she goes to her new foster parents home, but she can't read it. So when she starts school she gets bullied for not being able to read and decides to have her new papa teach her. They have classes every night and she slowly begins to be able to read, leading her to steal books since her family can't afford them. Her father Hans pretty much wants his new daughter to be happy, and to not get caught with the Jewish man living with them. The mom just wants her daughter to do all her chores and her job for her and for her to just behave all the time. Rudy, Liesel's best friend just wants to kiss Liesel every day but she never lets him. The Jewish man Max just doesn't want to get caught living with this kind family, and becomes best friends with Liesel. He also just wants the Holocaust to end so he doesn't have to hide out anymore and can live a life again not in fear of being himself. A theme that is beginning to appear I think is one: to never give up, and to always have hope. I believe this since almost all the characters in the book have this enthusiasm. Rudy attempting to get a kiss from Liesel, hoping that one day it will happen, Max hoping that he doesn't get caught and still tries every day to live life not giving up on it, and Liesel tries so hard to learn how to read and to not be thought of as dumb, and has so much hope for Max that when he gets sick she knows he will wake up, and brings him presents every day for him hoping he will wake up.

The Book Thief: entry 1

The major characters in my book are this little girl named Liesel, who's the main character, her foster dad Hans Hubermann, her foster mom Rosa Hubermann, her best friend Rudy, and this Jewish man named Max Vandenburg, who the Hubermann family hides in their basement. The setting of this book takes place during the Holocaust and World War II, which is why the family hides the Jewish man in their basement. The major conflict of this book is pretty much Liesel stealing books from fires and the mayor's home, and she also steals food a lot cause her new family is very poor, but an even bigger conflict is the fact that they're hiding a Jew in their basement during the holocaust!! One prediction I have for this book is that the Jewish man Max might die in their house since he's very sick and hasn't woken up from a sleep in a really long time, so that would be very bad if some NAZI found a dead Jewish body in their home, but I feel like it might happen. I wonder how he got sick, and if he will ever recover? Also I wonder if he is going to get caught and get himself in trouble as well as the Hubermann family. This book can be connected to the movie based off of it obviously, but also it is kinda like a movie I watched in history about the holocaust becasue a lot of the clips from that movie about Hitler are mentioned in the book.