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    The Power of Words “The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing.” (Markus Zusak, page 242). At this moment, Liesel was so angry at the words that she tore up a book. She started to realize how much of an effect they can have in the world. Words are a pretty powerful weapon. They can be destructive or productive. Most of the times words are used in The Book Thief, they’re destructive. A good example of this is how Hitler

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    The Power of Words Liesel Meminger is a young girl that was put in the care of Rosa and Hans Hubermann in World War II, Germany. The power of words is heavily represented in The Book Thief by Liesel. They have connected her to several people and created unbreakable relationships between characters. Words have several effects on the characters. These include love, hatred, comfort, and the ability to be able to think for yourself. Words have the power to connect others and spark a revolution in

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    The Book Thief I think the theme of “The Book Thief” is words are powerful in many ways. I chose this because Liesel read in the bomb shelter with people who are frighten, scared, and confused on what to do Liesel just read her book and people started to listen to her and was interested more in the reading than about what’s happening outside the shelter. When Liesel was leering how the Führer uses words for power and that’s how he got to the top of everybody using words. Using certain words in

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    In the story, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak based the theme on the “Power of Words”. The book demonstrates that words and language have immense power in both positive and negative ways, meaning that the words in the book has strong effects to one another in a positive and negative way. The power of words often brought relationships between the characters closer together because it was the use of the words, the words were often used to establish a connection with others and to build a relationship

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    Power of Words “Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble” (Berg, Huffington Post). In The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, a love for the words was able to affect the situation for the better, but also for the worse. We must understand the power

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    know the power of words can impact somebody’s life? The things you say to someone can change their mind about their decisions, choices, or may even affect their self-esteem. Words also have the power to make somebody change their attitude. Throughout the story of The Book Thief, there are many positive and negative situations that occur because of words. In the novel, the reader can see evidence of how words can build or strengthen a relationship. However, one must also note how words can break

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    Everyone of us has impacted someone with our words, whether you’ve realized it or not. Whether it was used for bad or good, to convince them to make a choice or to prove a point, you’ve impacted them with just the use of your words. In Zusak’s novel, the Book Thief, the main message is that the power of words can have a major impact on people. In the Book Thief there is a character whose name is Max . He is a Jewish man who has been living in Liesel’s basement although it’s illegal to house a Jew

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    the immense power of words to her advantage throughout the course of the novel, and is shaped by them in multiple ways. When she arrives on Himmel Street, forced into the care of Rosa and Hans Hubermann after her brother passes away, and her mother is unable to raise her due to circumstances beyond her control, she is frightened, unsure, and deep in mourning. Additionally, she is also illiterate, save for a few basic phrases and words, not yet inducted in to the proverbial cult of words, and unable

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    With the power of words, that causes the destruction of Germany and the world, Liesel’s uses that same power to deal with the terror of death that looms over them, allowing her to give power and hope, to those that need it, especially in the midst of the chaos of World War II. Where the German forces were deteriorating, and the Allies only grew stronger with each bomb that they drop, Liesel and her neighbors hide within one of the basements, in attempt to survive the onslaught of attacks, fearfully

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    The Power of Words Words are one of the most powerful ways humans can connect with each other. Nazi Germany is a place where the use of words was the most powerful gift anyone could have. Since the novel is set in Germany during World War II the words back then had negatively influenced the society at that time, and positively influenced a young German girl named Liesel. In The Book, Thief Zusak tells the story of a German girl named Liesel who

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