Who Is Liesel Meminger?

When readers first meet Liesel Meminger, she is a young girl standing quietly with her mother and brother on the train. At this time, she seems confused and a little bit afraid. She doesn’t know exactly

When Liesel arrives in Molching she is unable to read or write. Hans Hubermann teaches Liesel to read when he discovers that she has a book. Thereupon Liesel learns to love reading. She decides to record the story of her life in a notebook given to her by Ilsa Herman. This decision leads to Liesel’s survival during the bombing of Himmel Street. "Only

In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a young girl living in Nazi Germany named Liesel, was given up by her mother and sent to live with her new foster family. Liesel was given to the Hubermanns at ten years old. Throughout Liesel's journey during World War ll she has been abandoned by her mother, her brother Werner, a Jew named Max and her foster papa Hans. Over the course of the novel Liesel Meminger suffers from being abandoned by losing many friends and family that are close to her.

When Liesel Meminger moves to Himmel Street to live with her new foster parents, she befriends a young German boy named Rudy Steiner. The two become best of friends as they accompany one another throughout the book, going about their daily activities and adventures they embark on along the way. At first the pair are just neighbors, with Rudy helping Liesel adjust to her new home that is the small town of Molching. Soon though, Rudy starts to develop feelings for Liesel that can only be described as him having a crush on her. He is very forward with her as the book goes on, as he has become more comfortable with her. However, it appears that Liesel does not really find it in her to have the same kind of feelings toward him. “As long as both

The story is told from 1939 to 1945 during Hitler’s reign and World War II. 1939 is when the story starts and when Liesel moves in with her new parents on Himmel Street according to Death. The bulk of the story follows Liesel in the years to come as she grows up in Molching. 1945 in the story brings with it the end of Hitler, and Liesel reuniting with her Jewish friend, Max. After that, Liesel moves to Australia with her husband where she dies a very old age at the very end of the

Liesel Meminger is the the protagonist of the story she is a nine year old girl who heavily enforces a personal moral code. Throughout the book, Liesel changes from an bitter, distrusting character to one whom grows a strong feelings and bonds between her and her family, she had a difficulty and allowing people into her life.Toward the end of the book she goes through a drastic change as she matures by reevaluating her whole life realizing that she should’ve been more considerate of other people's feelings.

The different shots in the book thief helped me understand more about the main character Liesel Meminger. Liesel is a young girl who lost her little brother and her mother gives her up as soon as her brother dies. But luckily is taken in by Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann. All three of them have quite a separate bond at the start but later on they start getting quite close together and start to become a proper family. Many shots show Liesel's fear during the Holocaust of what's about to happen. When it was the parade for the burning of the jewish books Rudy and Liesel seem to be clueless of what's happening around them. They just join in with the experience of that time. But one camera shot showed the moment when liesel realises what's happening.

In The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger is a caring person. When her foster father, Hans Hubermann, is lecturing Liesel about not telling anyone that they are hiding a jew named Max in their basement; Liesel starts crying. Hans tell her that if she speaks of Max, himself and Liesel’s foster mother Rosa, will be taken away and they will never come back. Liesel starts bawling at this point in the lecture. This shows how much she really cares about her family. Liesel cares about the people that she loves and their presence in her life. Liesel cares about others and fights for justice when she sees someone being treated unfairly. One example of this is when Liesel stands up for Rudy when she sees Victor beating him up and giving him a bloody nose.

“As it turned out, Ilsa Hermann not only gave Liesel Meminger a book that day. She also gave her a reason to spend time in the basement, her favorite place, first with Papa, than Max. She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life” (524). When Liesel first arrives in Molching, she does not trust anyone. She is angry because she doesn't know how to read and her classmates make fun of her. Her foster father, Hans Hubermann, teaches her to read and during their time together, Liesel finds a true love for reading. Liesel meets Ilsa Hermann while delivering her laundry to her. One night at a Nazi book burning, Ilsa sees Liesel steal a book. The next time that Liesel delivers their clothes, Ilsa waits for her with a stack of books in her hand. Liesel discovers that Ilsa has a library and that they connect through books. In the novel, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, his character, Ilsa Hermann, elucidates the theme of compassion through her actions towards Liesel. She shows this by letting Liesel read in her library, taking Liesel in after the bombing, and giving Liesel a book to write her own story.

In 1938, young orphan Liesel arrives at the home of her new foster parents, Hans and Rosa. When Hans, a kindly house painter, learns that Liesel cannot read. He teaches her the wonders of the written language. Liesel grows to love books, even rescuing one from a Nazi bonfire. Though Liesel's new family barely scrape by, their situation becomes even more uncertain when they secretly shelter a Jewish boy whose father once saved Hans' life.

As she realizes at her Hitler Youth bonfire on Hitler’s birthday (111), Liesel’s father was a communist. She had always heard him referred to as one, but she never knew what that exactly that meant until that moment, standing in a crowd of brainwashed, propaganda-fed children heiling Hitler while books were being destroyed by the flames nearby. According to the Nazi Party, being a communist is just as bad as being Jewish. Realizing that she doesn’t belong among those around her, she flees. Liesel is alike Max in this situation. Both left their families to go live with the Hubermanns. Liesel came to the Hubermanns looking for a family and a better life after her brother died and her mother got sick. Max came to the Hubermanns to hide from the persecution of being a Jew. Liesel and Max become friends when they share their nightmares with each other (220). Liesel and Max each have persistent nightmares of their past. Her dreams are filled with her dead brother on the train. In Max’s dreams, he’s reliving the moment he said goodbye to his family. When she finds out that Hitler had taken her mother away from her, she is enraged and proclaims that she hates him

Liesel Meminger’s foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, pass away after the air raid and near the end of the book, Death salvages Liesel's book, The Book Thief. Liesel loses The Book Thief after the air raid. When Liesel Meminger passes away, long after the air raid, Liesel’s last visions includes her

Liesel Meminger, who was a very sympathetic young girl which her words were used from her warm heart towards people. Frau Holtzapfel had lost both of her sons, so for her to be happy, Liesel would read to her a lot, which also made Frau Holtzapfel feel comforted. Also when Max was taken in by the Hubermann’s, he was a Jew, which meant he wasn’t allowed to see the outside world. Liesel would go outside and tell Max the

Hans and Liesel became a very strong unit with a powerful sense of belonging to each other. From the very beginning Liesel Meminger “a girl with a mountain to climb” (Zusak, 2013) has a very conflicting sense of belonging and consequently struggles with her identity. She had suffered deep emotional loss prior to her new life in Himmel Street. When she arrived at Himmel Street, Liesel was shy and afraid but was welcomed by her new family, especially Hans. Liesel finds love and safety in Hans, and she experiences belonging in that home in Himmel Street like never before. “Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father’s eyes. They were made of kindness and silver. Like soft silver, melting. Liesel, upon seeing those eyes, understood that Hans Hubermann was worth a lot.” (pg.34) Liesel develops an immediate bond with Hans. Her new father wakes her from her nightmares about her brother and comforts her by playing the accordion and teaching her to write. Hans gives Liesel a gift in the form of words, and in that gift she finds a sense of belonging that changed her life forever. Words are essentially the main thing that keeps Liesel alive, when everything in her life has turned to chaos reading and writing becomes a distraction. The bond they shared was irreplaceable; Hans was Liesel’s safety net. “He looked over at Liesel and winked. She would have no trouble calling him Papa.” (Pg. 36) Hans and Liesel’s strongr relationship is important to Liesel’s sense of

After losing her mother and her brother, Liesel’s life and identity is changed drastically many times. It is through books that she discovers and becomes comfortable with this change. When she first meets Hans and Rosa Hubermann, her new foster parents, she does not wish to speak with them or get to know them. However, once Hans discovers Liesel with the book she stole when her brother was buried, The Gravedigger’s Manual, they bond over Hans teaching Liesel to read. Liesle describes the first time her and Hans have a lesson in the middle of the night: “She had done this at school, in the kindergarten class, but this time was better. … It was nice to watch Papa’s hand as he wrote the words and slowly constructed the primitive sketches” (Zusak