Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Growing Up a Saumensch/A Woman with the Iron Fist
These two sections gave an excellent overview of life in the poorer regions of Germany during the Great Depression. This section also focuses on how Liesel loved her original family, and how she was unwilling to be given to foster parents. In addition to that, the sections also told about Hans Hubberman, and how he loved his new foster child. This also made me change my perspective on Death, because when I think of Death, I think of someone with no emotion, but in these sections, it shows that Death is capable of emotion, and can be very loving, in Death's own way.
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I love how you pointed out that Death could feel emotions and that he did in this section
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Tim, it does describe life in poorer regions of Germany. But have you ever thought of how they survived this? This post was very informative, and does go into depth of things I never thought about. Liesel does have a secret love for here brother and her mother, but do you think that she might want to forget them and love her foster family? Even though Liesel does not accept her parents, it is interesting how her father could love her. I think though that Liesel will grow accustom to him. Nice post.
ReplyDeleteI like that you talked about the feelings of both Death and Liesel- the two most important characters. Very interesting post! What would you do if you were Liesel, being given to a foster family?
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree that the author gives Death a lot of emotion, in its own Deathly way. It seems that Hans Hubberman will play a big role in Leisel's life, but I am not totally sure. It seems like her mom is really against everyone one. I wonder why? Is it her past history with them? Jealousy? Lastly, the descriptions really gave me an idea of how poor this town in Germany was.
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