...Quiñano, Julianne Grace D. November 13, 2015 BSP 201A Literature 1 Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing (Proverbs 12:18). This passage from the Holy Bible is never wrong because ever since God created the universe and until know, all human beings have already experienced being hurt with the words that were thrown to us. Words are powerful that it can cause big changes in anyone’s life. As I read the bestselling novel of Markus Zusak entitled The Book Thief, aside from realizing how powerful words are, I realized also that being an author of a book is strenuous. It requires creativity, lots of courage, perseverance and of course experiences. Also, authors around the planet have different...
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...The Beautiful and Brutal Beauty and Brutality can co-exist, and this is something that is very present in The Book Thief. Imagery is used to convey the beauty and brutality. Zuzak uses sight, touch, and sound most often to show what is happening, and help make the beauty and brutality visible. Everything has beauty and brutality, and this is portrayed many times throughout the book. Beauty and Brutality is shown to co-exist when bombings would happen, Hans slapped Liesel, and the bombing of Himmel street happened. Beauty and Brutality was very prominent during some of the bombings that happened. Michael was a character and he was trying to get his mother to a bomb shelter. He cried to Rosa, Liesel’s step mother, “‘Tell me, Rosa, how can she sit there ready to die while I still want to live?’ The blood thickened. ‘Why do I want to live? I shouldn’t want to, but I do.’ (Zusak 487). He was trying everything to get her to move. He had a desire for life, something his mother lacked. Zuzak was using imagery, by hearing his voice, seeing his mother, and trying to pull her to the shelter. Even though this was brutal, beautiful moments were still happening. On Page 488, we learn of the event of the bomb shelter. “The night was long with bombs and reading. Her mouth was drying, but the book thief worked through fifty-four pages. The majority of children slept and didn’t hear the sirens of renewed safety. (Zusak 488)” In the midst of chaos, there was beauty in the...
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...As most of society today knows Hitler used propaganda to capture his followers and supporters. Hitler was such an imposing persuasive person, that he assembled many citizens to believe the circumstances he did in which was that the Aryan race was destined to rule the world by using propaganda. In The Book Thief which is taken place in the fictional city, Mulching Germany, Hitler also compelled families to join “The Youth” using advertisment. Hitler was utterly becoming “more and more influential in German politics” because of how our world was then (“Propaganda In Nazi Germany” 2). During World War II, there was much propaganda involved with the reasoning that Hitler’s intentions were to over power the Jews. For example; in “The Book Thief”...
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...decides to protect a Jewish man in their basement, a young girl’s stolen books help her develop a deeper understanding of the world beyond Himmel Street, encouraging her to give a new life to Hitler’s toxic words in her own stories. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the simultaneous existence of anti-Semitic propaganda in Nazi Germany alongside Liesel’s cherished books and Max’s captivating stories demonstrate how words can be both destructive and self-delegating in an oppressed society. First, Hitler demonstrates the...
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...Family should be one of the most important things to everybody, no matter what it means to them. It goes beyond any other relationships. Family can influence people’s behaviours and personalities. It can provide confidence, responsibility, and safety to people. Liesel in ‘The Book Thief’, regained a lot of her confidence with her foster family. In the movie Moana, her family influenced her to be more responsible due to the accident that Maui did to the island. And last, in the movie Twilight, the Cullens made Bella become more confident and making better choices without regrets. In ‘The Book Thief’, Liesel Meminger’s biological mother and brother, her original family, at last abandoned Liesel and made her feel fear connecting with other...
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...As children grow up, they start to become more and more independent. When there is a loss in the relationship between a child and his/her parents, the child is forced into independence. This is something that happens in both The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Night by Eliezer Wiesel. For Liesel in The Book Thief, she is initially at loss for her relationship with her father Hans Hubermann when he has to go out to war and serve his country. For Eliezer in Night, he is faced with forced independence when his father Shlomo dies as a concentration camp prisoner during the Holocaust. But, if there is no hope tied to the independence, then he/she has no motivation when they are independent, making it less significant and purposeful in comparison to when someone does have hope. By analyzing the actions and decisions of both Eliezer and Liesel when they are forced into independence, it shows that when there is hope related to it then the independence they have is more meaningful in comparison to...
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...The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is a novel about a girl in Nazi Germany, who moves into a new town after gaining new foster parents. There, she meets a lot of troubles in her life. She experiences person vs society conflicts many times during her stay on Himmel Street. She realizes that Nazi Germany was not so great as people had said when she asks her foster father “‘Is my mother a communist?’ Staring. Staring ahead. ‘They were always asking her things, before I came here.’ Hans edged forward a little, forming the beginnings of a lie. ‘I have no idea-I never met her.’ ‘Did the Fuhrer take her away?’...‘I think he might have, yes.’ ‘I knew it.’ The words were thrown at the steps and Liesel could feel the slush of anger, stirring heavily in...
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...“Do you still play the accordion?” (Zusak 173), this is the first thing that Max says to Hans when he arrives at Himmel street, which shows us the accordion's symbol as the connection between the Hubermann's and Max which gives Max safety. In the fiction book, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Erik Vandenburg has an accordion before he is killed in battle and the accordion is given to Hans. He frequently plays it throughout the novel and it brings comfort. It symbolizes the comfort and protection of Hans and the Hubermann household to Liesel and later Max. When Liesel is reading in the shelter and thinks “This, it said, is your accordion.” (381) it shows that the accordion is a symbol of protection, safety, hope, distraction and comfort. The...
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...The deeper I get into this historical fiction novel by Markus Zusak, the more interesting and captivating it gets. As the plot and characters develop, I get a deeper understanding of the characters and this makes me connect with them even more. The character I most admire and, in a way, look up to is the main character, Liesel Meminger. I really admire Liesel because when she starts something, she finishes, no matter the circumstances; for example when she was learning how to read, “There were, of course, some problems as well… Just when progress seemed to be flowing well, somehow things would become lodged… but she had neither the selflessness to allow him to sleep… She was a girl with a mountain to climb” (Zusak 71 & 86). Acquiring a new...
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...Facts: Betty Smith is suing John Doe for injuries she sustained while being driven in Doe’s vehicle. Billy Thief was driving the vehicle when Ms. Smith’s injuries occurred. Billy Thief came into possession of the vehicle after John Doe left his keys in his vehicle and went into a Quickie Mart. When John Doe left his vehicle he left the keys completely hidden from sight beneath a book on the front seat of the vehicle. While John Doe was in the Quickie Mart Billy thief stole his vehicle. When John Doe left the Quickie Mart he saw his vehicle was missing and immediately called the police to report it stolen. Sometime after stealing the vehicle, Billy Thief picked up his friend Ms. Smith. Ms. Smith entered the vehicle despite knowing that the vehicle was stolen. Shortly thereafter Billy Thief crashed the vehicle into a tree, resulting in the injuries sustained by Ms. Smith. The injuries included a broken arm and $10,000 in doctor’s bills. Ms. Smith alleges that John Doe is liable for her injuries based on section 1210(a) of the New York Vehicle and Traffic Law. Question Presented: Is John Doe liable under the New York Vehicle and Traffic Code 1210(a) for Ms. Smith’s injuries arising from the accident involving John Doe’s vehicle? Short Answer: No. John Doe was not in violation of the New York Vehicle and Traffic Code section 1210(a) and therefore did not act negligently. Furthermore, Ms. Smith is not within the class of persons intended to be protected by the New York Vehicle...
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...Whitney Noel Hicks Mrs. Cunningham AP English March 11, 2015 DQ 1 Death Character Analysis In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak the narration is done by Death. As he tells the story of the book thief you catch on to his dark sense of humor. He is amused by how humans see him, “I liken this human idea of the grim reaper.” (Zusak 75) He finds it funny to be thought of as a simply skeleton dressed in a cloak with a scythe. Noticing his amusement with humans he seems to possess human like traits like emotion. Although his job is to take souls he does not enjoy it. So in order to distract himself from the truth of his job he focuses on colors. It is his form of vacation from work. As another form of distraction from his job he collects stories, like the one he is telling now about Liesel. He has these stories saved forever as a way to give himself more meaning. Also perhaps to prove himself wrong about humans, “to prove that you, and your human existence, are worth it.” (Zusak 15) He carries the stories as a way to prove that all humans are destructive when in fear, but are kind like Liesel, Hans, or Rudy. Because of those humans, the one who are destructive, he is result. As he explained in the beginning of the book he is not violent he is just the result of the destructiveness of cowardly...
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...circumstances is a party liable at common law for their appropriation? How should these principle apply in this case? Rule: according to the text book page 146, trade secret is a formula, device, idea, process, or other information used in a business that gives the owner a competitive advantage in the market place. The law of trade secrets protects some business processes and information that are not or cannot be protected under patent, copyright, or trademark law against appropriation by a competitor. Analysis: briefing.com’s competitors is StreetAccount, whose owners include Jones and Dietzmann. Jones and Dietzmann were employees of briefing.com and they have access to the confidential information, when they quit the job they didn’t return the information which gives the owner the comparative advantage in the market place. And they could probably deliver the information to their own company that is StreetAccount. Conclusion: Jones and Dietzmann are illegally appropriated the trade secrets from briefing.com, they against the law of trade secrets that protect business processes and information that are not or cannot be protected under patent, copyright, or trademark law against appropriation by a competitor. Question #5-5 Issus: could the information in the document be trade secrets? Should liability be imposed? Rules: according to the text book page 146, trade secret is a formula, device, idea, process, or other information used in a business that gives the owner a competitive advantage...
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...novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it is evident that books, reading, and words themselves represent power for different characters in different ways. Close analysis of Liesel Meminger and Max Vandenburg reveals that power can be achieved through literacy in a context where literacy is severely limited. Literacy plays a major role in Liesel’s adolescence. Liesel obtains power through literacy as it gives her a sense of comfort and control. The act of reading and writing gives Liesel the strength to cope with and heal from her emotional trauma. Reading and finishing the book The Gravedigger’s Handbook helps Liesel find the courage to move on from the loss of her brother. Although Liesel does not yet know how to read when she arrives at the Hubermann’s on Himmel Street, she keeps the book to comfort her, as it is the last object she has relating to her brother. When papa and Liesel finish reading the book, Liesel “trot[s] out, involuntarily” (Zusak 87) by explaining to Hans that her brother’s name “‘was Werner’” (87). The act of Liesel’s words being spoken involuntarily suggests that “she is finding some freedom in the effects of her disturbing experiences” (Lee 14). Liesel does not have to force herself to speak to Hans about her brother as she has gained emotional stability. Additionally, literacy helps Liesel recover from her distress as Hans reads to her nightly. Hans reads to Liesel “to soothe her, to love her” (Zusak 36). Hans’ spoken words from the books and his mollifying...
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...Karl maex A Marxist Analysis of an Italian Block Buster - By Vrinda Aggarwal Post the cold war Communism and Marxism remained mere philosophies which couldn't stand the test of time. They were either “impractical" modes of organizing economy and polity or rather were theories which were more advanced than the ages in which they were tested. It is thus the farsightedness of Marx which makes his theory extremely relevant for people to at least study. Marx principally focused on observation and historical analysis. According to him there were two Classes in the society - The Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. The former was the class which owned all the resources and organized production, the later is the laboring class who own nothing but their own physical power to run the machines. Thus both the producers and the workers are in a symbiotic relationship. Still we see that the capitalist can survive for a longer time without the worker as compared to the vice versa, putting the workers in a compromising position. Thus in the fight of wage determination, the capitalists tend to win, thereby fixing the wage rate which is sufficient for survival (which according to Marx s living like cattle). According to the Marxist ideology, “when the capitalists and the laborers suffer equally, the worker suffers in his very existence, the capitalist in the profit on his dead mammon. The worker...
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...Question 1 Why have American films been so successful over the last half century? Outline what you consider to be key success factors for a film (type of story and genre; actors; directors, pace, music, and so on). Was the fascination for the American culture and way of life the prominent reason for that success? What was the contribution of the American melting pot with its huge diversity of migrants’ origins to the creativity and global outlook of the American movie industry? There are several reasons for the success of American movies: the budget, the Hollywood brand, the directors and the universal themes that appeal to a broad public. When the production can cover most of its costs by the local profit, it allows for a relatively low selling price to the foreign distributors. A large budget also makes it possible to use expensive actors with a recognized name that attracts visitors, as well as developing an efficient distribution system. The US has the most prominent country-brand equity in the world, which has without a doubt contributed to the Hollywood success. Therefore one might say that the fascination for American culture has helped their movie industry, but there are too many other factors to say that this is the main reason for its success. Several of the well renowned Hollywood directors have origins outside of the US. This knowledge of more than one culture might have contributed to a more international touch to their films, appealing to many different cultures...
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