Sunday, February 6, 2011
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About Me
- Mrs. Rigsby
- I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and attended the University of Missouri at Columbia for my undergrad. I have a Masters in Elementary Education from Regis. I come from a family with four kids. My sister is a teacher in Chicago. One of my brothers lives here and the other one lives in Chicago. I moved here because my husband loved Colorado and I loved him. As it turns out,I love Colorado as well.
I think that Liesel has lived a life of beauty and brutality un many ways. One, is her relationship with Isla Hubberman. The beauty is in the books,and the way Liesel reads in her library. The brutality is the way that after she lost her mothers last client, she breaks into the house to steal books. Also, her friend Rudy. I think the beauty is that inside, Liesel actually loves Rudy, and the brutality is that she will never kiss him until after he dies, no matter how hard he tries to get one. On page 241 and 242, death foreshadows Rudy's death by saying, "He didn't deserve to die the way he did," and "He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty bomb-hit lips." That shows to me that Liesel really did love Rudy.
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Liesel's life represents beauty in the way of brutality, because of all the things in her life. Like how she broke into the house to steal people's books. Also, Isla Hubberman was for sure part of her bruality. Books are too. When she reads, you can just see the bruality. Now, the biggest reason why she has so much bruality, is definately her realashonship with Rudy. She always says she doesn't like him and on page, 50 something, she says she wouldn't kiss him in a million years, but she really wanted to. She just wouldn't admit it like Rudy would. She was really sad when he died, because she never kissed him.
ReplyDeleteLiesel's life reflects beauty on the wake of brutality because of her connection with Rudy. She always rejects Rudy because of his attemps to kiss her. That is the brutality. Her eventuly kissing him makes the beauty. Its basicly the phrase "you never know what you have until its gone." Rudy kisses him even in death. "andLiesel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips.'
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I think that the Book Thief expresses beauty and brutality in many ways. One is the brutality of Mama’s watschens versus the soothing sound of Papa’s accordion. There is also the beauty of Himmel street until the brutality of the bombing of the place, killing Rudy, Mama, and Papa occurs. There is the brutality of the first act of book thievery and beauty in all the others. Liesel,s life is beauty and brutality. She lives with it. It is fine for her After all, she had a mountain to climb, as mentioned on page 86, and, oh did she climb it. She became the queen of book thievery, but then she fell down the mountain. Himmel street had been bombed. And, like Sula said, Liesel really did love Rudy. She lust didn’t show it. That was also beauty and brutality. I think that Liesel has gone through so much she would scream in Death’s face if he tried to explain it.
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