The Book Thief Review Sample: Liesel Character

Liesel Meminger as a Girl “With a Mountain to Climb“

Liesel Meminger may be the main character of the book The Book Thief. She actually is a small but very strong girl who has suffered an excessive amount of in her life. Death narrates this story, describes the main characters, and gives us his own opinion about humans. He says that Liesel is the girl “with a mountain to climb. ” Liesel’s first mountain to climb is learning to read. “And she loved the truth that despite her failure in the class room, her reading and writing were absolutely improving and would soon be on the verge of something respectable” (Zusak, 2005).

She wants to figure out how to read for school and because of her very own desire and passion for books. “While Liesel sometimes joins up with a gang to steal food and the like, her only thieving passion is for books. Not good books or bad books — just books. From her bedroom to the bomb shelter down the road, reading helps her commune with the living and the dead — and finally, it's the mere existence of stories that proves to be her salvation” (Green, 2006).

But her main mountain to climb could be the way she passes from being illiterate to focusing on how powerful words can be. Liesel reads to a sick Max and believes that it will help him. She reads to people in the basement as it calms them. The story written by Max helps Liesel to understand the remarkable power of words and how they can be used. It describes Hitler’s utilization of oration to rule the German people, but the young girl is capable of fighting him with words of compassion and love. Liesel falls in to despair after seeing Max on the way to Dachau, and rips up a book in Ilsa’s library, wondering what good words are. Ilsa Hermann gives Liesel a book and convinces her to write. Liesel writes the story of her life, ending with the line, “I have hated the language and I've loved them, and I really hope I have made them right” (Zusak, 2005). This line shows us Liesel’s comprehension of the power of words and her make an effort to write for good purpose.

Death says that Liesel is really a girl “with a mountain to climb” because, in the hard time of World War II, this girl managed not only to survive but additionally find a thing that inspires her and encourages other people. She did not lose her courage even when she lost all her relatives and buddies. Despite all of the bad things happening in her life, we can think that Liesel Meminger continues her life among the strongest & most kind people, a person loved even by Death.

REFERENCES

Green, R. J. (2006, May possibly 14). Fighting for Their Lives. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14greenj.html.
Zusak, M., & White, T. (2016). The Book Thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.