"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society...Literacy is a platform for demostration, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity...Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential." ---Kofi Annan

18 March, 2008

The Book Thief post 5

I really don't think that I create ten posts out of this book...
One, I write too much.
Two, I am picky about what I am writing.
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Why do I have to go through the same phase everytime I do a blog post???
I wonder...Hmmmmm.......

And here comes the ah-ha moment--


AH-HA!!!!!
Ding!
Can't you see the light blub which is floating on top of my head went on ??
You should be able to....

Anyway, in life, many things are connected with each other.
And in The Book Thief, Zusak once again showed how things are related to each other.
Liesel's desire for literature affected her family, friendships and loves, it also allowed her to transform many through words.
Her best friend Rudy stayed together with Liesel through the good and bad times as well as the times when she stole books. Their experiences together led to their unchangable friendships.

Max, the Jew who was hiding in Liesel's family's basement, was under the prosecution and persecution from the German armies. The act of reading from Liesel lifted Max's soul up and led him into writing. And Max made books such as The Standover Man and The Word Shaker, and let Liesel experience the power of words and reading.
When the enemies bombed the Himmel Street, the act of reading the Whistler by Liesel calmed the anxiety and fear of the people hiding in the basement.
At the end when the enemy bombed Himmel Street completely and no one survived, it was literature that kept Liesel from Death's hands.
Rudy, Hans, and Max, they were the three most important men in Liesel's life.
Words, the book thief, Death, they are the three things that lock with each other and supported the structure of the whole story.

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