Character Analysis Of Liesel: The Good And The Bad
Ben Shiptenko
Ms. Ross
English II CPA
2 September 2015
Liesel: The Good and the Bad
Liesel Meminger suffers many struggles in her life, from the death of brother to the loss of her family, to the worry and hate she has for Hitler and everything he represents. In the beginning of the novel, she is a very young girl dealing with very grown-up situations, and yet she somehow manages to find beauty in all that she experiences. With every loss, Liesel also gains something. With every hardship, she also finds joy. Leisel struggles with the problems that Hitler brings to the country. She lives in a life of brutality yet she stills finds beauty in the world through words. The single greatest loss Liesel experiences is the death of her little brother. After she watches him die she has to watch him get buried and the brutality of the situation is more than her young mind can understand "Still in disbelief, she started to dig. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't." pg.23 She takes her first book, even though she cannot read, as a memento of her brother, a reminder of the brutality she has just witnessed. However as her foster father teaches her to read and she …show more content…
She thinks that she hates words when she hears all of the hateful and horrible propaganda that Hitler has written and spread throughout her country, but she loves the beauty found within the writings of Max. She decides to write her own story which is full of brutality but also, she knows, full of beauty. Of her own writing Liesel says “I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” pg. 528. She struggles with words because she loves and hates them but in the end she knows that the words have made her better and stronger. She finds the beauty in words and using that she is able to have a median for all the
Ms. Ross
English II CPA
2 September 2015
Liesel: The Good and the Bad
Liesel Meminger suffers many struggles in her life, from the death of brother to the loss of her family, to the worry and hate she has for Hitler and everything he represents. In the beginning of the novel, she is a very young girl dealing with very grown-up situations, and yet she somehow manages to find beauty in all that she experiences. With every loss, Liesel also gains something. With every hardship, she also finds joy. Leisel struggles with the problems that Hitler brings to the country. She lives in a life of brutality yet she stills finds beauty in the world through words. The single greatest loss Liesel experiences is the death of her little brother. After she watches him die she has to watch him get buried and the brutality of the situation is more than her young mind can understand "Still in disbelief, she started to dig. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't." pg.23 She takes her first book, even though she cannot read, as a memento of her brother, a reminder of the brutality she has just witnessed. However as her foster father teaches her to read and she …show more content…
She thinks that she hates words when she hears all of the hateful and horrible propaganda that Hitler has written and spread throughout her country, but she loves the beauty found within the writings of Max. She decides to write her own story which is full of brutality but also, she knows, full of beauty. Of her own writing Liesel says “I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” pg. 528. She struggles with words because she loves and hates them but in the end she knows that the words have made her better and stronger. She finds the beauty in words and using that she is able to have a median for all the