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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

WEEK 3: 03/29/10-04/03/10

PART FIVE/ (DUE WEDNESDAY THE 31ST)
PICK TWO TO ANSWER:

1). In Part Five, Max boxes with the Fuhrer. Max tells Leisel, “Every night, I wait in the dark and the Fuhrer comes down these steps. He walks down and he and I, we fight for hours”. What does he mean by this?

2). Describe Leisel’s encounter with Mayor’s wife. Why does Leisel react this way? What was she hoping would be the outcome of her tyraid?

3). Describe the pictures that Max paints and Leisel discovers. What do the pictures mean? Why do they scare Leisel?

4). Why did Rudy quit the Hitler Youth? Why do you think that his parents begged him to go back? What would have happened to them if Rudy had continued to rebel?


PART SIX/ (DUE SATURDAY THE 3RD)
PICK TWO TO ANSWER:

1). How does the narrator feel about himself and war? How is his opinion different than human’s opinions?

2). When Max falls ill, Leisel brings him presents. She imagines saying to him, “These [gifts] are what made you wake up”. What are the gifts that Leisel gives to Max and what meaning do these gifts have?

3). How does Rosa let Leisel know that Max is awake? What does this event tell you about Rosa? Do you feel differently towards Rosa now than you did in the beginning of this story? Why, why not?

4). How does Leisel prevent the Nazis from discovering Max? What else might she have done to protect her family?

5). At the end of Part Six, in “Death’s Diary: Parisians”, the narrator states, “They were French, they were Jews, and they were you”. Comment on this statement, reflecting on what you’ve learned and read thus far.

115 comments:

  1. 1)The mayor’s wife saw Liesel take the book at the book burning. I believe this character can be trusted because as you read farther into the story she gives Liesel a tour of her own library. This shows some kind of friend ship between them and unless the mayor’s wife is trying to get Liesel’s entire family in trouble then I believe she can be trusted. The quote the narrator uses about her not getting away with any thing and the person had seen her and they were just waiting for the right time means to me that even though Liesel thinks she has gotten away she really hasn’t because the mayor’s wife saw her take the book. The “just waiting for the right time” means that there is something that she wants to do with Liesel when the time is right. You find out later that what she wanted to do was show Liesel her library.
    3) The struggler is hiding in a dark place, which seems to be some type of abandoned building.
    He is a Jewish man hiding from the Nazis. I believe that the man’s family has either been killed of is in a concentration/death camp. The man’s name is Max and on page 130 someone comes and gives him an identification card and food. The irony in the man having the book Mein Kampf is that it is a book about Hitler and Nazi Germany and this man is Jewish trying to evade these people because they hate and think Jews are not people and shouldn’t be aloud to live with them.

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  2. Part Three: Question One: The mayor’s wife saw Leisl take The Sholder Shrug from the burnning books. Yes, I think that she is trustworthy, because she let her inside her house into a room wall to wall full of books. In the text leisl says that there are so many books you couldn’t even see the color of the paint on the walls. The mayor’s wife was waitin gfor the right time to bring Leisl in the house because she needed Leisl to be alone (not with Rudy) and it was a laundry pick up day, instead of a laundry drop off, day.

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  3. Part 4 Question 3: Hans has to talk with Leisel to make sure that she won’t tell anyone about Max and get them in huge trouble. I don’t think Hans went too far. If Hans hadn’t made himself clear the whole family could have been killed. Hans had to be harsh with Leisel because he loved her. He didn’t want anything to harm her and he already feels bad for putting the girl in a bad situation in the first place. He had to make sure he wouldn’t be separated from her and that she wouldn’t be harmed because of what he was doing.

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  4. Part 4 Question 1: In “A Small but Noteworthy Note”, the narrator says, “I’ve seen so many young man over the years who think they’re running at other young men. They are not. They’re running at me.” I agree with this statement because in war when a man is fighting with another man he’s not really fighting against another man, he’s fighting against death. This idea can be connected to Hans Jr. because he thinks that he is fighting against other people who aren’t perfect Aryan or Nazi. He doesn’t realize that he is playing with fire while doing so. He doesn’t realize that he is risking his life for something completely bogus. He thinks he’s fighting to make the world “better”.

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  5. knights1006: I see where you're trying to go with your answer but you didn't explain why the mayor's wife having a lot of books makes her trustworthy. Just because someone has a whole bunch of books doesn't mean they can be trusted.

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  6. Part 5 Question 2: At the book burning someone saw Leisel take the book. It was the mayor’s wife. I think that she can be trusted because she seems shy but very nice. Later she takes Leisel into her house and lets her read her books that she has in her library. If she was going to tell on Leisel I think that she already would have because there would be no point in waiting that long. Also the book was going to be burned anyway so it doesn’t really matter that she took it because no one is going to miss it. The mayor’s wife will probably not turn Lesiel in.

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  7. Part 5 Question 4: Rudy quit Hitler youth because he didn’t like the guy who beat him up because he didn’t know Hitler’s birthday. Also he made him run all of the time. Rudy didn’t quit at first because he didn’t want him to think that he was scared of him. His parents wanted him to go back because if he didn’t they probably could be considered communists and fined or taken away. If he didn’t go their family might have been killed because they weren’t following Hitler’s laws and in that time you were not allowed to disagree with your government.

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  8. The mayors’ wife saw Liesel take a book at the book burning. I think that this character can be trusted because if you read further into the story she gives Liesel a tour of very her own library. This shows some kind of friendship between the two, unless the mayors’ wife is trying to get Liesel’s entire family in trouble, then I believe she can’t be trusted. The quote that Death uses about her not getting away with anything and that person had seen her and they were just waiting for the right time, means that even though Liesel thinks she has gotten away she really hasn’t because the mayors’ wife witnessed her take the book. The “Just waiting for the right time” means that there is something that she wants to do with Liesel when the time is right. You find out later that what she wanted to do was show Liesel her library.

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  9. The struggler is hiding in a dark and emyty place, which seems to be some type of abandoned building.
    He is a man of Jewish descent hiding from the Nazi party . I believe that the man’s family has either been killed of is in a concentration/death camp. The man’s name is Max and on page one hundred thirty, someone comes to him and gives him an identification card along with some food. The irony in this is that the man having the book Mein Kampf is that it is a book about Hitler and Nazi Germany and this man is Jewish trying to evade these people because they hate and think Jews are not people and shouldn’t be aloud to live with them.

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  10. Part 5
    Question 3

    Lisel finds pictures the Max has drawn and looks at then. One of the pictures is Hitler conducting the citizens in music. The second picture that Lisel sees is two people standing on a pile of dead bodies saying, “Isn’t a lovely day”, and the sun of that picture has a Nazi symbol in it. Bother of these pictures are showing Max’s feelings, the first picture means that Hitler is not being a leader, he is a conductor, and Max is making fun of Hitler. The second picture means that all of the dead bodies is what is happening with Hitler in control and that the people on top symbolize the citizens and that they have no clue what is happening. These pictures scare Lisel because she has never seen someone show their true feelings about Hitler in pictures and Max drew exactly what he was thinking. These pictures scared Lisel, I don’t think she would expect Max to draw this.


    Part 5
    Question 4

    Rudy quit the Youth Hitler group because he was tired of the leader telling him to do things he and Tommy had to do but the others didn’t. For example while the other were in learning tactics, he and Tommy were out doing another drill session. I think that his parents begged him to go back because if he didn’t go back he would have gotten in trouble with the leader. The leader could have beaten him and gotten seriously hurt, his parents knew what could have happened to him. His parents could have also gotten in trouble because; if Rudy wasn’t going to the Youth Hitler group they could think that they weren’t really supporting Hitler.


    knights8206,
    I agree with you, Hans didn’t go too far. He knew what could happen to them and didn’t want it to happen to his family. He got the point across that Max had to be kept a secret.

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  11. knights 8206
    Great example I like it good job good bye

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  12. Part:
    Question three:

    The first picture that Max drew that Leisel found was Hitler standing over top of everyone and all the Nazi’s were praising and following him. The second picture that Leisel finds of Max’s drawings was two Nazi’s standing on top of whole bunch of Jews. They are saying it’s a lovely day because of the number of people they killed. The sun is the Nazi symbol which Max obviously thinks is a good, bright, sunny thing. These pictures scare Leisel because these were not pictures that she would have thought to be drawn by Max. Plus, she was totally not against Jews because some of her friends and customers were Jews.

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  13. Part 5
    Question 3:
    The pictures that Max drew and Leisel saw were 1) The one were Hitler is standing on a block and everybody is praising him and 2) There are 2 Nazi’s standing on a pile of dead Jewish people. In 1 Hitler is commanding the people to follow him and they must all be saying “Hi-Ho Hitler!” Then in 2 there are 2 Nazis on a HUGE pile of dead people (im guessing are Jewish.) Leisel is scared because she didn’t think that was something Max would draw and she isn’t against Jewish people. She is nervous about his decisions.

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  14. Part five
    Question .2 ) The Mayors wife had canceled Rosa’s services. Liesel was the one that got the news first. She also had the duty to tell her mother that her last customer had fired her. The Mayors wife had given Liesel the whistler. Liesel began to walk home but became overwhelmed with utter rage. She did not want a book given to her out of pity. She went to tell the Mayors wife her true opinions. A bit of Liesel’s personal anger came out when she was yelling at the Mayors wife. The fact that She was still living in a pathetic state of sorrow for her lost son angered Liesel. Liesel had to get over her brothers death quickly. Someone at the age of the wife should be over the mourning state.
    Question .4 ) Rudy quit the Hitler youth because of a rowdy teenage youth leader decided to mess with Rudy. He gave Rudy no sympathy and made him run extra hard. Rudy decided to violently confront the teenager. He ended up getting violently beaten. Rudy decided to quit the Hitler you and when his parents found out the begged him to go back because If the Nazis found out that a family with a child that did not agree with Germanys opinions, the family could get harshly punished.

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  15. Part 5 Question 1
    In Part Five, Max boxed with the Fuhrer. Max said to Leisel that, “Every night, I wait in the dark and the Fuhrer comes down these steps. He walks down and he and I, we fight for hours”. When liesel asks him who won, he tells her he does. When max says this I believe he means that he is better than the fuhrer, and that the fuhrer is weak. I also believe that the side note on page 257, where the fuhrer is gutting his but kicked by max, implys that he wont win the war because the jews are stronger than him.

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  16. Part5 question 2
    I think that Rudy finally quit the Hitler youth because I think that he realized that it affected everyone around him by what he was doing so he didn’t want to hurt them anymore so he quit. I think that his parents begged him to go back because it was something that he was starting to believe in and his thoughts were against Jews and he wanted to be a part of the Hitler youth if Rudy had continued to rebel against his parents I think that he would have hurt them more because they would have seen rudy sad and that wouldn’t have made them very happy because it would have been just as bad as him still being in the Hitler youth.

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  17. Part five
    Question Three:
    The First picture that Max drew and Liesel found was a man standing tall, with followers. This picture represented Hitler and the Nazi’s the followed him. In the picture Max, made it look like Hitler was a God and that everyone obeyed everything he said. That was exactly how Hitler was treated. If this continued, it would only get worse! The second picture is a couple standing on a pile of dead people. The sun is a Nazi symbol, and the couple is happy and says,”Isn’t it a lovely day….” The dead people represent all the people the Nazi’s have killed because they are not the “perfect race”. The couple represents the few people there will be when everyone gets killed, and the Nazi sun represents the Nazi control. The whole picture represents what Max thinks will happen if the Nazi’s take over. This scares Liesel because she does not like the idea of that.

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  18. Part:
    Question four:
    Rudy quit the Hitler Youth because he was getting beaten up and took to the ground by Deutscher, Franz, and the older boys. For example, in the text it states, “When Rudy stood up, it served only to infuriate Deutscher even more. He brought him to the ground for a second time, following him down with a knee to the rib cage.” This made it hard for him to get up. He had also swallowed mud, bathed himself in fertilizer, and been half-strangled by a criminal and public humiliation. I think his parents begged him to go back because they thought it was good for him. If Rudy continued to rebel they would probably punish him.

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  19. Part5 question3
    In part 5 Leisal discovers the pictures that max has painted. The pictures are of people heiling to Hitler and he is the leader and everyone is listening to him. The other picture is of a pile of dead bodies and there is two people sitting on the top of the pile saying isn’t this a great day. These pictures mean that max thinks that one day Hitler will rule the world and everyone will believe in what he says and he also thinks that he thinks that killing the Jews is a good thing so he thinks that when all of them are dead it will be a good day. Leisal is frightened by this because she doesn’t really believe that killing the Jews is right so when he said that it will be a good day when all of them are gone she doesn’t think that that is very good.

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  20. Knight 8206
    You used great detail in your explanation and it was written with a lot of support from the text. Good job

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  21. Part 5:Quesiton 2
    The pictures Max drew in his book were pictures of Hitler “conducting” his people. The next drawing was him and his wife standing on a pile of people who had died. On the page, there was a Nazi sign in the corner. Liesel is frightened by the pictures. “ Frightened by what she saw, Liesel placed the book back down, exactly how she found it…” This is how I know she was scared when she saw them. I think she got scared just because Liesel seems like she is the kind of girl that doesn’t like to think about what her country is doing and how bad it really is. It seems like she doesn’t really want to believe it, believe that her home country is killing all of these people for a stupid reason like they are Jewish.

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  22. Part 5: Question 4
    Rudy quit the Hitler Youth because he found that it really wasn’t for him. He found that he really shouldn’t be doing it, if he really didn’t want to. He also was getting in a lot of trouble for not attending the meeting and not knowing the questions. “ When was our Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler born?” they asked. At first he didn’t answer, so he had to receive the consequence of running laps, then they asked him again. He replied with “East Monday”, that basically did it for the teachers. I think his parents wanted him to go back, because he was such a hard boy to make sure he wasn’t getting into trouble that they really just wanted him to have the strictness, etc. If Rudy would’ve continued to rebel, then his parents would have to be fined

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  23. Part 5 Question 2
    Liesel's encounter with the mayor's wife went like this- Liesel was out front of the mayors house when she saw the mayors wife. When talking to her, Liesel got really really angry and started ranting at her. I think the reason for this "tyraid" was that liesel had been experiencing a lot lately, and did not mean to direct all of her anger out on her. Liesel was just really angry and the mayor's wife was the unfortunate trigger to this anger. I dont think she hoped for any thing in return.

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  24. part 5 question one: in the text Max tells Leisel, “Every night, I wait in the dark and the Fuhrer comes down these steps. He walks down and he and I, we fight for hours”. i think that this means that max has nightmars about the furhier finding him and that he has the same nightmar all night long also i think hes saying that he want to fight the furier because he hates him.and by him sayin i wait in the dark it is saying that he wants him to come and is expecting him becae if he was afrad he would be hiding in the dark not "wating" in the dark of the basment.

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  25. part 5 qestion four: rudy quits the hittler youth because he hates hittler and dose not agree with what they are teaching. rudys parents dont want him to qout because they fer for his life and dont want him to die and also know that the nazis will kill him if he keaps rebeling agnst them. also the know that if he keeps rebeling that they will come and kill them just because they are the parnts of him and they wouldnt give any mercy or they know that the nazis would mayby put them all in a conintration camp.

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  26. Part 5 question 3: The pictures of Maxes that Leisel finds are very dark. It’s all about how Max has always had some one standing over him be it his dad the people he got in to fights with or even friends. Also they are about how lucky he was to find Leisel and her family. Also the over all tone of the paintings what very dark because there are lots of water drips ever were. Also it looks like the painting has smudges all over it. this is why I think that the pictures scared leisel.

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  27. Part 5: Question 2: When Leisel walks to the Mayor’s wife’s house to pick up dry cleaning, Ilsa gives her a letter saying how she can’t pay for the dry cleaning anymore. Before she informs Leisel on this terrible news, she tries to give her the book The Whistler to keep for good and Leisel accepts it, but is very shocked by the news and doesn’t know what Mama will do to her when she finds out she was fired. Leisel is about to leave the mayors house but goes back and yells at the poor frail woman. Leisel probably reacts this way because she is very upset about her Mama losing her job and now her family has less money than she already had, and she is poor. Leisel was probably hoping the woman would give in and pay for one more ironing, but that wasn’t the case.

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  28. part 5 question 1:I think that max means that he can’t understand why anyone would do any thing like Hitler was doing to the Jews and he can’t fall asleep at night because of it. This cause he to think about while he is just laying there in his bed. Also once he dose fall asleep he dreams about Hitler walking in to the basement and killing him. This is why he says it’s a battle. This is what I think that max meant when he said what he said.

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  29. Part 5: Question 4: Rudy quit the Hitler Youth because he didn’t like his leader, Franz Deutscher. Whenever he would stick up for Tommy and try to explain his hearing issues, Franz would make both of them run laps and do multiple sets of drills. Also, when Rudy saw Franz one time on the street, he threw a rock at him and Franz beat him up then cut his hair with a knife. After he quit, his parents wanted him to go back because every German boy had to go to the Hitler Youth and they didn’t want Rudy getting into trouble. If Rudy continued to skip his meetings then he would have probably been questioned by the leaders or gotten in trouble by them.

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  30. knights8206: I agree with you but you could explain further on what you mean by making the world "better".

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  31. Part 5 question 3- Max paints two people on top a heap of bodies saying "what a lovely day." Liesel is scared of course because of the dead bodies. The picture is describing what the Nazi's are doing to the Jews. They are killing all of them just because of their religion. The people on top off the pile must be Nazi's because of them saying that. Its ironic that theyre saying that because they are on something that is definitely not lovely-the pile of bodies. It addresses the major issue that needs to be taken care of in Germany which of course will come to an end later on.

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  32. Part 5 question 4- Rudy quit Hiter Youth because his counselor person thingy was picking on him. He even beat him up. His parents begged him because if he wasnt going to go the Nazi's would get their family in trouble for not sending their kid to Hitler Youth. Who knows what the consequence for that could be? Im sure they didnt want to fin out. If Rudy continued to rebel, his family would probably get in trouble with the Nazi's.

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  33. Part 5

    Q2) When Leisel came back to the mayors wife she went off on her. This was because of her firing Leisel's mom and giving her a book so she wouldn't be mad. She was angry because they had gotten close and she was their last customer. She was hoping that the mayors wife would feel bad about what she did and hire them again to do her laundry. This didn't work instead she just made the mayor's wife feel worse than she already did.

    Q4) Rudy quit the Hitler Youth because he hated going there and he hated his leader. He and Rudy had fought and Rudy got beaten up really badly. He didn't want to have to see him all the time. His parents begged him to go back so they wouldn't get fined or get in to trouble with the nazis. If Rudy would have kept skipping Hitler Youth his parents would have been fined. And since they were really poor, they probably wouldn't have enough money to buy food.

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  34. Question 1.
    When Max says, “Every night, I wait in the dark and the Fuhrer comes down these steps. He walks down and he and I, we fight for hours” he is talking to Liesel about how he is having a new dream. He really wasn’t having a new dream he was really just imagining. When he is saying this I believe that he means that if he ever got the chance to fight Hitler he would try so hard to win. Even though the chances of him winning a fight with Hitler was slim to none he still dreamed about how it would feel if he did.

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  35. Question 2.

    When Liesel goes to the mayors house to pick up the dry cleaning she doesn’t know it will be her last time going there, well at least for that purpose. The mayor’s wife gives Liesel an envelope saying that they had to fire her mother and a book for Liesel that she had been reading every time she came to the house. This meant that Liesel’s mother was unemployed because that was her last customer. Liesel reacts by coming back to the mayor’s house and banging on the door. When the mayor’s wife opens the door Liesel starts screaming and yelling at the lady telling her she didn’t want the book because she thought it was because she felt bad for Liesel. She hoped the outcome would be her mother getting her job back.

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  36. part 5 question 1
    When max explains that he boxes hitler everynight and he comes down these steps he this doesnt realy happean but he imagens it happening everynight. He is only imageining this. Every night he thinks in his head that he is boxing the fuhter and he is always getting beaten by him. He lies to liesel i guess because he doesnt want to emberess himself infront of her. In his head he dreams that he is in a boxing areana. in one corner max and the other hitler. once he begings he is deystoried by hitler but then starts punching back. after that hitler removes gloves and asks the crowd to help him fight and they do and then max wakes up.

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  37. part 5 question 3
    The pictures that liesel saw where quite frightening. THe first one she saw was making fun of the heil hitler symbol wich looks like a conducter with his conducting stick. The phrase not hitler conducter is making fun of the heil hitler symbol.the second picture is a picture of maybye max and liesel on top of a mound of dead bodies. The bodies probably are all jews. The phrase that max is saying " isnt it a lovely day may be sarcasim because he is aware of all of what is happening to the jews. Leisel is frightened by these pictures(mainly the second one) because they are showing a mound of dead bodies and she maythink that her painted self killed all those people.

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  38. Part 5 Question 3: Max’s drawing is showing him and Liesel holding hands and standing on top of a mountain of bodies. In the sky, there is a sun with a swastika in the middle of it. The drawing of Liesel is saying, “Isn’t it a lovely day…” His drawing means that all the non-Jewish Aryans are enjoying their lives while everyone else is being tortured and killed. I think Liesel was frightened by Max’s drawing because she had never seen this side of him before, drawing such a gruesome sight.

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  39. Part 5 Question 4: Rudy started skipping the Hitler Youth meetings because of Franz Deutscher, his harsh supervisor who seemed to hate him. He was also afraid that Deutscher might beat him up again. I think Rudy’s parents begged him to go back because they wanted to look respectful to the government. They wanted to show that they supported Hitler’s cause, and therefore would be safe. If Rudy had continued to rebel, his parents would be fined for his non-attendance, most likely a lot of money. If his behavior continued, they might’ve gotten shunned by their friends and neighbors, for being against Hitler.

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  40. knights8206:

    i completely agree with your statement. amazing job! :)

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  41. Part 5
    Question 1
    I believe that when Max says, “Every night, I wait in the dark and the Fuhrer comes down these steps. He walks down and he and I, we fight for hours.”, he means that he is, in theory, fighting with Hitler about being a member of the Nazi party. Max may not agree with every decision made by Hitler, but he is nonetheless a part of his scheme. When he says “we fight for hours”, I think he is just talking about what was stated above. That he doesn’t agree with everything that Hitler does, and so in his mind, he is arguing with him about the results of those decisions and the impact they will have on the residents of Germany in that time period.

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  42. Part 5:
    Question 1:
    What Max means is that he is fighting or boxing Hitler in his mind, he sees the Fuhrer and a parade of Jews being leaded by soldiers, then Hitler walk down the steps. He and Hitler will fight for hours, showing Max's hate towards him. This means that in real-life if Max were to encounter Hitler, he would fight him in some way to show his hate towards him. Since Max is Jewish, and Hitler hates the Jews and tortures them, that is what makes Max come up with these visuals in his mind. So, Max doesn't really "Box the Fuhrer", he is just imagining this in his mind.

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  43. Part 5:
    Question 4:
    Rudy decides to quit Hitler's youth because he is having trouble with a Hitler Youth leader named Franz Deutscher. Rudy hated him. He would throw rocks at him when he walked by him on the street. That's how much Rudy hated him. Rudy could not take it any longer. He then started to skip Hitler Youth meetings. Then, he did not go at all. He started to hang out with Liesel and they started to steal food and books. His parents begged him to go back because they did not want Rudy getting into anymore trouble and get taken away, or beaten anymore. If Rudy continued to rebel, then he will most likely be taken away. He will keep getting beaten by Franz.

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  44. knights8206:
    I agree with your answer, especially the part about Hans having to hit Liesel because he loved her and didn't want her to get hurt. Good job!

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  45. Week five
    Question four:
    The reason Rudy quit the Nazi Youth was because he was getting beat up and bullied by someone in the group. It was an older guy. His name was Viktor Chemmel. Rudy’s parents were begging him to join the group again. I think they were doing this to protect Rudy. They didn’t want Hitler, himself, to get involved. If he got involved he would probably get worse treatment than his bully, Viktor Chemmel. I think if Rudy did continue to rebel he would have to suffer consequences from Hitler. It might be getting sent to a death or concentration camp, but no matter what you knew it wouldn’t be good if it was from Hitler.

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  46. Part 5 Question 1: The quote "Every night, i wait in the dark and the Furher comes down these steps. He walks down and he an I, we fight for hours" mean that Max is doing all his training so that when his day comes where he is confronting the Furher he will be strong and ready. Max believes that if he does everything he is suposed to do, he will end up eventually beating the Furher when he gathers all the the strength to last longer then Furher would ever have the strength to.

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  47. Part 5 Question 1:
    I think that when Max daydreams about fighting Hitler, he is thinking about what is actually going on in Germany at the time (Hitler is trying to destroy the Jews). That’s why he was dreaming about Hitler persuading the crowd to beat him down at the end of the match, just when he thought he was about to win. Hitler was actually doing that in real life. He made speeches that persuaded people against the Jews. When Max explained his dreams to Liesel, he was trying to tell her what goes on in his daydreams and in his real life. I think he meant that he not only dreams about having to fight Hitler for hours, but he really has to in real life, even though he’s not literally punching the Fuhrer.

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  48. Part 5 Question 4:
    I think Rudy quit the Hitler Youth because it was getting to be too much for him. He was getting tired of having to deal with all the punishments he got for defending Tommy every day. His parents begged him to go back because they were probably afraid of what would happen to them if he didn’t. If Rudy didn’t rejoin the Hitler Youth, his parents probably would’ve gotten a minor punishment at first, like a fee they had to pay or something like that. Eventually, they would’ve been in serious trouble with the Nazis. Rudy most likely would’ve been forced back into the Hitler Youth in the end anyways.

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  49. Part 5 Question 3: Max drew two pictures that Lisel saw in the book that he was writing one of which was a picture that had the Furher and his people singing and it says Not the Furher- the conductor which means that Hitler should not be a leader and that he is saying a whole bunch of non-sense and the people who listen to him are wasting their time. Max's second picture is of what i think is suposed to be Lisel and Max standing onto of all the dead Nazi's saying how nice of a day it was. I think this horrified Liesel because she didnt think Max was the type of person who wanted all these people dead or planned on killing all these people.

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  50. knights8206: I totally agree with your statement about Hanns he was only trying to protect her and Rosa so the way he talked to her was definately nessicary.

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  51. 1). I believe that Max relives the night he fought Hitler. When he says that he waits in the dark he is referring to the night when he waited in the dark for his match to start. The Fuhrer is Hitler so when he mentions the Fuhrer he means Hitler. Also when he says that “the Fuhrer comes down these steps…he and I, we fight for hours.” He is remembering for hours the fight he had and how Hitler walked up to him and showed his yellow teeth.

    3). The first of the 2 pictures it shows in the book is an image of Hitler standing above everyone; there hands held high and music notes coming from Hitler’s mouth. At the bottom it says, “Not the Fuhrer-the conductor!”
    The people are hailing Hitler and Hitler the Fuhrer is commanding them like a conductor. That is why he has music notes coming from Hitler’s mouth. The second picture is a pile of dead bodies with two people standing on top. Also a swastika is in the sun. One of the people is saying, “Isn’t it a lovely day…” To me this means that they are in Germany or under Nazi command. Also that there is so much death in the world that people are use to it. These pictures scare Leisel because they are pretty graphic and also she realizes that Max has seen things like this in his life.

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  52. Part 5 Question 1: When Max says, “Every night, I wait in the dark and the Fuhrer comes down these steps. He walks down and he and I, we fight for hours.” He means that at night when he’s all alone in the dark basement it reminds him of why he’s in hiding. When he says that he’s fighting with Hitler, he is really fighting with two different parts of himself. Hitler represents the fact that he knows it’s wrong for him to be putting Leisel and her family in danger. He represents his instinct for survival. His instinct is to just do whatever it takes to survive. Max can’t decide which one’s more important: Leisel and her family or his own life.

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  53. knights4683: I had interpreted the question differently but your answer is a way that I hadn't given thought to. It's interesting how everyone looks at all the questions in all different ways. good job!

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  54. Part 5-
    Question #4:
    In Part Five, Rudy quit the Hitler Youth camp because he was constantly being punished by Franz Deutscher, his leader. This leader picked on Rudy and Tommy more than any of the other kids at Hitler Youth. Franz would make Rudy and Tommy do more drills and work whenever they tried to stick up for themselves. Franz even acted out with Rudy outside of Hitler Youth- Rudy threw a rock at Franz and Franz beat him up and cut all his hair off. Franz was harsher towards Rudy than any other kid at the camp. Rudy’s parents made him go back though, and this was because, if he continued to skip Hitler Youth and go against the rules of the government, he and his family could be sentenced to a concentration camp.

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  55. Part 5-
    Question #1:
    Max tells Liesel that every night, he dreams about fighting the Furher (Hitler). This shows that it’s Max’s goal to take Hitler down. Max wishes that he could beat up Hitler and take him down. Max is against everything that Hitler is doing, so basically, Max is fighting against Hitler’s rules and is trying to bring him down emotionally and socially, but he wishes that he could bring him down physically because Max feels so against Hitler that even his dreams are about bringing him down. Max is preparing himself to confront Hitler and take him down and his dreams are just encouraging him more.

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  56. knights 3205-
    You used really good description about the pictures that Max drew and you had good interpretations of what they meant. I really agree.

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  57. Part6 question1
    In the war the narrator thought that the people that were involved in the war were in a lap with him and when they came back around they were going to die, and that he was an important part of war and it wouldn’t be right without him. In the story it says “the desperate Jews- their spirits in a lap as we sat on the roof, next to the steaming chimneys”, and this means that they were going to go into a fire pit and they were going to die and when he is sitting with the Jews and the Jews were on a lap coming back to him, they were about to die and they were going to meet death that day. This is different from how humans think because they are always wondering if they are going to be the ones to die that day and the narrator knows when people are going to come and die so the thoughts are different.

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  58. Part6 question 2
    When max is feeling bad Leisal brings him gifts and gives them to him to make him feel better. She gets the idea when she is outside and the soccer ball pops and she gets the idea that a dieing person might like the things that ordinary people may think of trash as something that makes them very happy. She goes out and finds the soccer ball, a ribbon a pinecone, a button, a stone, a feather, two newspapers, and a candy wrapper. These are things that she thinks will make him things of better times and it will make him get his mind off of the bad and try to think more good thoughts about his life. It gives the meaning that he had a good life and it had a lot of good times in it so don’t be sad.

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  59. Knight 1208
    I agree with you about the mayor’s wife seeing Leisal at the book burning. You used great detail in your explanation and it was written with a lot of support from the text. Good job.

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  60. part 6:question 1

    The narrator, Death opionon about the war is that... He feels that it is just a stupid reason for the Germans to look tough and that it is just harming innocent people. " It brought the war closer to Himmel St. and it dragged me along for the ride", it states. I think Death doesn't feel very strongly about it, as Hans Jr. does. But it also doesn't think it is the right thing for its country to do. His opionon differs from the people in Germany around that time, because most of them did look up to Hilter,admired him, and thought that the war was the bets thing thats ever happened to their country. Most people didn't think about what the Nazis were actually doing. People today, think of Hitler as an evil and cruel man, as back then they looked up to him because they never really had a figure to admire and respect.

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  61. Part 6:question 4

    Leisel prevents the Nazis to find Max by... When she found out that they were coming to search, she knew she had to do something. She saw a group of boys playing a game in the street. So she ran at one of the boys, full force and she knocked both him and herself over. Leisel knew that this would stop the game and get one of the soliders attention. The German ran over and asked what had happened. She went back inside so that she could "heal her knee". When she did get inside she helped Papa ,Momma and Rosa find out where they were going to put Max. I think Leisel did a clever thing by getting the Germans attention because she knew that she had to get in the house somehow,but she knew if she just went it would be suspicious. I believe that was a very good way to protect her family.

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  62. knights3205 I completely agree about how Max was trying to portray Hitler, that he is the conductor because he should not be leader. You had a very good answer!

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  63. knights3205:
    I agree with your answer, especially when you explained the first picture Max drew. I didn't get that drawing and now it makes more sense!

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  64. Part 6 Question 3:
    Rosa lets Liesel know Max is awake by going to her class and screaming at her about taking a hairbrush. She takes Liesel out to the hallway and yells for a little. Then she whispers that Max is awake. I think this event tells us that Rosa is known as a harsh person, since nobody thought it was unusual for her to be yelling at Liesel and many of them seem to be afraid of her. After reading this part of the book, I like Rosa more than I did at the beginning of the story. The fact that she came to tell Liesel Max was awake shows that she really does care even though she has a harsh way of showing it.

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  65. Part 6 Question 4:
    Liesel prevents the Nazis from finding Max by warning Hans. When she falls while playing soccer, she asks for Rudy to go and get Hans for her. He comes out and sees the Nazis. If Liesel hadn’t done anything, the Nazis might have caught the Hubermanns off-guard and found Max. By warning Hans, she at least let them know the Nazis were near so they were prepared for it. Another way she could have protected her family would have been by warning Hans and then distracting the Nazis somehow, maybe by asking them to watch the soccer game for a little bit. However, I think what she actually did was a good idea.

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  66. Question 1:

    In the book it states, “ …War is Deaths best friend.” As what humans say about death and war. As for Death he has a different point of view, he thinks that War is more like a boss that expects the impossible. That boss for death is always asking you to do more and more because people in war are always dying. Death also says that this boss never says thank you because it always expects more. He is always expected more of because in war the soldiers never stop dying in till the war is over. Us humans should try to be death for a day.

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  67. Part 6 question 5: the statement in Death’s Diary “They were French, they were Jews, and they were you” means that death is sympathetic to all mankind. I think that death started out to love his job of killing people and that’s why there was World War 2 but he realizes that it was a bad idea. Also I think that this quote has lots of different meanings then just this. It could be talking about killing people each other. That’s what I think that this Quote meant form deaths diary.

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  68. Part 6 Question 3: Rosa letting Leisel know that max was up kind of changed my opinion on her. She is normally so mad at the world and she has the right to be to. She also has a loud mouth and has no problem expressing her self. Lastly she cusses a lot of the time which isn’t great but that’s not that’s big of a deal. She has started to show more love toward Leisel. This is proven because she sees how much she cares about max. This is how I think that my opinion on Rosa has changed from the start.

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  69. knights0101 nice use of deatails in your answer

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  70. Part six
    Question One:

    The narrator feels that the war is more of a boss asking death to do more and more work, with out a thank you. Death doesn't feel that the saying "war is death's best friend" is really true because to the narrator, war is just asking him to get more done. In the text it says, "To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stand over your shoulder repeating, incessantly 'get it done, get it done'. So you work harder, You get the job done. The boss, however does not thank you. He askes for more and more." The narrator feels that war is just asks for more and more work and that it has to be done, meaning people have to be killed, because it's death's "job".His opinion is different because death feels that war is a boss, but for human's it's our actions, be create war it doesn't create itself and tell us to fight it.

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  71. Part 6(Question 1): In the story the narrator is death. Death has a different feeling about war than other people may think he does. In the text it states,” They say that war is death’s best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like a new boss who expects the impossible.” This quote shows that most people think death like’s to go out and kill tons and tons of people but in reality to death killing a lot of people is doing and extremely hard job. Most people don’t understand what death really thinks about the aspect of war.

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  72. Part 6(Question 2): In part 6 Leisel brings Max presents and say’s,” These {gifts} are what made you wake up.” Leisel gives Max a total of 13 presents. The first five presents are a smashed soccer ball, ribbon, pinecone, button and stone. After this she brings him four more presents feather, newspapers, candy wrapper, and a cloud. Lastly the last four presents are a toy soldier, miraculous leaf, finished whistler (book), and lastly a slab of grief. These presents represent the missed times. Leisel is really just keeping Max up to date with what’s going on while he is ill. I’m sure that Max will love the gifts!

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  73. Part Six:
    Question Five:

    I think this statement means that, they are human, and they deserve to live. Even though they aren't, as Hitler called them, "Perfect Germans", they are still people and have every right to live on this earth as much as Hitler or a "Perfect German" would. I think death feels the same way and feels that he shouldn't have to take the lives of the French or the Jews. By saying this he means that they were french, or jewish, but they have a right to live like I do or anyone else on this earth and shouldn't be killed because of the way they look or their beliefs.

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  74. knights3205:
    I completely agree with your answer. Your explanation of how she was horrified was really good. :)

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  75. knights5654: I agree! Rudy didn't want to stay and be punished at that stupid camp. He's lucky that he wasn't killed for not doing what Hitler wanted. Good Job

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  76. knights 3205, that was a good example you showed about him. Excellent work.

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  77. part 6 question 2
    When Max gets really sick in the basement because of the snow leisel brought for her and him to make a snowman , Leisel brings him presents. She imagines saying to him, “These things are what made you wake up”.Leisel found things to give him like how Liesel reads to him for hours at a time, also she gives him things like , a flattened soccer ball, a feather, and a description of a perfect cloud.

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  78. Part 6 Question 1
    At the beggining of part six, in Deaths diary, he explains his take on war. he says" They claim war is deaths best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible." He explains this by saying how "the boss" is always standing over your shoulder, constantly reminding you to "get it done, get it done" although he never thanks you for your work, he just tells you to do more. Now the humans take on war is a lot less insensitive as deaths take on war, in fact war is the opposite to death then to humans. Death takes it as a big job, humans take it as a big tragety

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  79. Part 6

    Q4) When the nazis are inspecting the basement Leisel gets herself hurt in the soccer game. Then she goes home and has the nazi's sympathy and the nazi isn't suspicious about them. He just thinks they are a normal German family. Another thing that she could have done is to talk to and be friendly to the nazi.

    Q3) When Max wakes up Rosa comes to the school and yells at Leisel about how she lost her hair brush. Leisel told her to just yell at her during her soccer game if Max woke up. So that is what Rosa did when Max finally woke up from being sick. This tells me that Rosa will take any chance to yell at Leisel and that she does what she's told. This event doesn't really change the way I view or feel about Rosa.

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  80. knights7201- I really liked the way you explained the question. Good job!!

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  81. Part 6 Question 1: The enarrator sees himself not as a person carrying a sickle or scythe, wearing a hooded black robe all the time, having skull like facial features like we like to interperet. He says that he is us which i would like to think means hes is like any other human with the normal features which we uphold. Deaths opinion about death is definately not how we think it would be. I would have thought he would have liked it because it was his job and he liked seeing people die but really he hates it. He describes it as Death itself being his boss repeating "get your work done, get it done" which he finds rather frustrating because it is never satistfied.

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  82. Part 6 Question 4-Liesel gets the Nazi's distracted because she gives herself an injury. She knew that they couldnt find Max in the basement or there would be severe consequences. They would probably die...or get tortured or something for hiding a JEw. Liesel Im sure would do much more to keep her family safe in a horrible time like this. She may be a little girl but she knows enough to try and keep her family safe.

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  83. Part 6
    Question 3

    Rosa lets Lisel know that Max is awake by coming to her when she is at school and whispering it to her. Lisel said to tell her by yelling or swearing, acting like Lisel did something wrong, but instead she whispers it to her. This tells me that Rosa really cares for Rosa and doesn’t want to be mean and yell at her all the time. Now I do feel differently toward Rosa than what I did at the beginning of the story. In the beginning she was always strict and most of the time yelling at Lisel. Now I feel that she is really caring for Lisel and finding that she doesn’t so strict and harsh with her.

    Part 6
    Question 4

    When the Nazis come to check their basement Lisel does something to protect Max and to keep him a secret. When she was playing soccer, her knee got all scuffed up and was offered by one of the Nazis for help. Instead she went home by herself, knowing that they were soon coming to their house. Some they take Max up to her room and cover him up. When the Nazi shows up, it is the same one that offered Lisel help. They tend to Lisel and her knee, and then she starts reading her book acting like they have nothing to hind, all while the Nazi is checking the basement. Lisel would have done anything to protect her family; she would have risked her life if she had to. Lisel’s family means everything to her and I think she would do anything she could to protect them.

    knights7201,
    I agree with you, that is for sure why Rudy started skipping the Hitler Youth meetings. Great job!

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  84. Part 6 Question 3- Rosa walked into Liesel's classroom and started yelling at her about her hairbrush. Liesel was so confused but then Mama told her-Max is awake. Remember you told me to yell at you? You said they would believe it. This says that Rosa is true to her word. She listens to Liesel even thought sometimes she acts like she doesnt.

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  85. Part 6: Question 1: The narrator feels that he and the war are related differently than in a human’s point of view. A human see’s war being death’s best friend when really Death sees it as war being the boss of death. In the text he says,” To me, the war is like a new boss….He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: Get it done, Get it done.” So, Death says war is his boss and humans think war is death’s best friend. Also, when war is saying “get it done”, that means he wants death to take the lives of people that were killed, he wants him to get the job done, as a boss wants his worker to finish his work.

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  86. Part 6: Question 3: Rosa lets Leisel know that Max is awake when she was in school and Mama barged in and yelled at Leisel for taking her hairbrush and losing it. Earlier, Leisel told Mama that when Max woke up to let her know but yell at her or do something to not be suspicious. So, Rosa listened to her and eventually Max woke up. This event tells me that Rosa cares more than she shows it, because usually she’s cursing at someone or being disrespectful. I feel that deep inside Rosa, there’s kindness and a sign that she cares, and she should show it a little more. In the beginning of the story she was different, and meaner but when she pretended to be mean to do a kind favor for Leisel that tells you that she is humorous and nice.

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  87. knights4683: Great answer! I agree completely!

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  88. When Leisel walks to the Mayor’s wife’s house to pick up dry cleaning, Ilsa gives her a letter stating how she can’t pay for the dry cleaning duties anymore. Before she informs Leisel on this terrible news, she tries to give her the book "The Whistler" to keep for good and Leisel accepts it. But is very shocked by the news and doesn’t know what her mother will do to her if she finds out that she was fired. Leisel is about to leave the mayor's house, but goes back to yell at the poor old woman. Leisel probably reacts this way because she is very upset about her Mama losing her job and now her family has less money than she already had so she is poor. Leisel was probably hoping the woman would give in to the yelling and pay for one more ironing, but that wasn’t the outcome.

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  89. Max drew two pictures that Liesel saw in the book that he was writing one of which was a picture that had the Furher and his people singing and it says Not the Furher- the conductor which means that, Hitler should not be a leader, he is saying a whole bunch of non-sense and propaganda so the people who actually take the time listen to him are wasting their time. Max's second picture is of what appears to be Liesel and Max standing onto of all the dead Nazi's saying how nice of a day it was. I believe that after seeing this picture Leisel was horrified because she didn't think Max was the type of person who wanted all these people dead or planned on killing all these people who were just trying to follow along and didn't want to die for not following the Fuhrers every foot step.

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  90. Question 2:
    When Max gets sick and Liesel is bringing him gifts. When she gives him these gifts she imagines him saying “These [gifts] are what make you wake up”. She gives him a ribbon a pinecone a button and a stone, these represent that she cared and if Max woke up it would give them something to talk about. She also gave him a feather two newspapers a candy wrapper and a cloud. They all had their own stories Liesel could tell Max about. And the last gifts were a toy soldier, a miraculous leaf, she finished the whistler and a slab of grief. And again they all had their own stories.

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  91. knights4683:
    I totally agree with your anwser! Way to look at it! Keep it up!

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  92. Part 6-
    Question #5:
    In the end of part 6, under, "Death's Diary: Parisians", the narrator says, "They were French, they were Jews, they were you." I think the narrator is trying to say that all types of people were involved and victimized in the holocaust. The narrator was saying that difnferent types of people were killed, and you could be killed too. The narrator is sending the message that if you aren't part of the Arian race, you have the risk of being killed. The author is saying that people of races that Hitler didn't like, you could be killed. Everyone had the risk of dying in the holocaust.

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  93. Part 6-
    Question #1:
    I think that the narrator feels like war rushes people towards him, because he is death. The narrator even said, "I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other men. They are not. They are running at me." This shows that the narrator thinks that people are just "running" to their deaths when they join the war. But, most humans' ideas of war are that they are defending their country and family. They believe that they will be heros for protecting their country, and that's why people are joining the Nazi's-they think they're improving Germany.

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  94. Part 6:
    Question 1:
    The narrator feels kind of good in war about himself because so many people are dieing in this war and of Hitler's party. This is different from people's opinion because they are losing family members in this war and they are being tortured. People are hating their lives because of Hitler's perfect race. It was a screw up. Everyone was Being kept from the things they liked to do and the things they can do in everyday life. They don't get to have certain stuff that they want to. Hitler made everyone's life so miserable that even some people wished they had died because of the things Hitler does to them.

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  95. Part 6:
    Question 2:
    The gifts that Leisel gives to Max is a toy soldier, a soccer ball that was run over by a car, and a newspaper. Leisel gave these to him when he fell unconscious. Max's favorite toy was the toy soldier. She gave him these presents because they were of things they liked to do together. Play soccer, read newspapers, etc. Max was happy with all these things that Leisel gave him when he woke up. Lesiel would read The Whistler to him when he woke up every now and then. These were the gifts that Leisel gave to Max.

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  96. Part five
    question two
    When Liesel goes to the mayors house to pick up the dry cleaning she doesn’t know it would be the last time going there. The mayor’s wife gives Liesel an envelope saying that they had to fire her mother and she gave a book to Liesel that she had been reading every time she came to the house. Liesel’s mother was unemployed because that was her last customer. Liesel reacts by coming back to the mayor’s house and banging on the door. When the mayor’s wife opens the door Liesel starts screaming and yelling at the her telling her she didn’t want the book because she thought she gave it to her because she felt bad for Liesel. She hoped the outcome would be her mother getting her job back, but she didn’t.

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  97. Part 5
    Question 4
    Rudy quit the Youth Hitler group because he was getting beat up by the leader, and that he hated the leader. For example while the other were in learning tactics, he and Tommy were out doing another drill session, and whenever Rudy saw Deutscher, Franz he would throw a rock at him. I think that his parents begged him to go back because if he didn’t go back he would have gotten in trouble with the leader, well more trouble. The leader could have beaten him and gotten seriously hurt, his parents knew what could have happened to him, or Rudy could be taken away. His parents could have also gotten in trouble because if Rudy wasn’t going to the Youth Hitler group they could think that they weren’t really supporting Hitler and their neighbors and friends would shun them.

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  98. knights4683
    good job on youre answers, nice details.

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  99. Part 6 Question 3: Rosa lets leisel know that Max woke up and is alive by coming to Leisel’s school and yelling at her for using her brush and losing it. After she pulls her out of the classroom she tells her that Max woke up. She gives Leisel one of the gifts that Leisel gave max when he was asleep and tells her that Max gave it to her to give to Leisel. I feel that Rosa is a better person than I thought she was in the beginning of the story. She cared enough to let Leisel know he was alive instead of letting her find out when she got home.

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  100. Part 6 Question 4: Leisel prevents the Nazis from discovering Max by getting hurt during a soccer game. She saw the Nazis going from door to door and she needed to go home and tell her parents before they got to their house without acting suspicious. She got hurt so then when her father came she told him that the Nazis were coming and that they needed to hide Max. When they came to their house they searched the basement to see if it was deep enough for the bomb threats. Luckily it wasn’t big enough and they did not discover Max.

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  101. Part six:
    Question two-
    When Max falls ill, Liesel brings him thirteen presents. They are a soccer ball, one ribbon, one pinecone, one button, one stone, one feather, two newspapers, a candy wrapper, a cloud, one toy soldier, one miraculous leaf, a finished whistler, and a slab of grief. She imagines saying to him that, “These [gifts] are what made you wake up.” This means that Liesel believes that the gifts she gave him are what awoken him and made him feel better. The meaning that these gifts have is the fact that it’s not just junk it is the meaning behind the item and who it came from. I also think it shows Max who cares about him enough to even want to give him something to make him feel better.

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  102. Part six:
    Question five-
    At the end of Part Six, in “Death’s Diary: Parisians”, the narrator states, “They were French, they were Jews, and they were you”. I believe this means that since Jews and French people got caught and put into German prisons, that this could happen to anyone including Liesel or even Max. Also, since the narrator says that as the sky changes color from silver to grey, the clouds are trying to get away. This pretty much sums it up that the silver and grey are the Germans and that the cloud were Jews trying to escape the harsh treatments under them.

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  103. 2103- I completely agree thats the meaning of the drawings. To describe whats going on between the Nazis and Jews.

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  104. Part six
    Question five
    At the end of part 6 in, "Death's Diary: Parisians", the narrator says, "They were French, they were Jews, they were you." I think the narrator is trying to say that all kinds of people were involved and killed in the holocaust. The narrator was saying that different types of people were killed, and you could be killed too. The narrator is saying that if you aren't part of the Arian race, you have the risk of being killed. The author is saying that people of different races that Hitler deosnt like, you could be killed. Almost everyone had the risk of dying in the holocaust.

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  105. Part six
    Question one
    The narrator feels good in war about himself because so many people die in the war because of Hitler. This is different from other people's opinions because they are losing family members in the war. People are hating their lives because of Hitler's ‘perfect race’. Everyone was being kept from the things that didn’t go with the Aryan race and the things they could do in everyday life. They didnt get to have certain stuff that they wanted to have. Hitler made everyone's life so bad that even some people wished they had died because of the things Hitler did to them.

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  106. knights4006:
    I completely agree with your answer about the meaning of the quote. I liked how you explained that what happened to the Jews and the French could happen to anyone. Good job!

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  107. Part 6 question 5

    In Part 6 "death" says, "They were French, they were Jews, they were you." I beleive the narrator is trying to say that a lot of kinds of people were involved and killed in the holocaust. The narrator was saying that different types of people were killed, and you could be killed too. The narrator is saying that if you aren't part of the certain race, you will probably be killed. The author thinks that people of different races that Hitler deosnt like, will be killed.

    Part 6 question 2

    The presents Leisel gives to Max are a newspaper, a soccer ball that got run over by a car, and a toy soldier. Leisel gives these to him while he was unconscious. His favorite toy was the toy soldier. Leisel gives him these gifts because they were of things they liked to do together. Play soccer, read newspapers, etc. Max was very happy with the things that Leisel gives to him when he awoke. She would read "The Whistler" to him when he became awake every once and a while.

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  108. Part 5 Question #1: Max tells Liesel that every night, he dreams about fighting the Father (Hitler). This shows that it’s Max’s goal to take Hitler down. Max wishes that he could beat up Hitler and take him down. Max is against everything that Hitler is doing, so basically, Max is fighting against Hitler’s rules and is trying to bring him down emotionally and socially, but he wishes that he could bring him down physically because Max feels so against Hitler that even his dreams are about bringing him down. Max is preparing himself to confront Hitler and take him down and his dreams are just encouraging him more.

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  109. Part 5 Question 3: The pictures that Liesel saw where quite frightening. The first one she saw was making fun of the hail Hitler symbol which looks like a conductor with his conducting stick. The phrase not Hitler conductor is making fun of the hail Hitler symbol.the second picture is a picture of maybe max and Liesel on top of a mound of dead bodies. The bodies probably are all Jews. The phrase that max is saying " isn't it a lovely day may be sarcasm because he is aware of all of what is happening to the Jews. Leisel is frightened by these pictures(mainly the second one) because they are showing a mound of dead bodies and she may think that her painted self killed all those people.

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  110. knights 8206
    Great example I like how you used the text in your response.

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  111. Part six Question one: The narrator feels good in war about himself because so many people die in the war because of Hitler. This is different from other people's opinions because they are losing family members in the war. People are hating their lives because of Hitler's ‘perfect race’. Everyone was being kept from the things that didn’t go with the Aryan race and the things they could do in everyday life. They didnt get to have certain stuff that they wanted to have. Hitler made everyone's life so bad that even some people wished they had died because of the things Hitler did to them.

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  112. Part 6 Question 2: When Max gets sick and Liesel is bringing him gifts. When she gives him these gifts she imagines him saying “These [gifts] are what make you wake up”. She gives him a ribbon a pinecone a button and a stone, these represent that she cared and if Max woke up it would give them something to talk about. She also gave him a feather two newspapers a candy wrapper and a cloud. They all had their own stories Liesel could tell Max about. And the last gifts were a toy soldier, a miraculous leaf, she finished the whistler and a slab of grief. And again they all had their own stories.

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  113. knights4006:
    I completely agree with your answer about the meaning of the quote. I liked how you explained that what happened to the Jews and the French could happen to anyone. Good job!

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  114. Part 6 Question 3: To let Leisel know that Max woke up Rosa came to school and yelled at Leisel. All the kids in Leisel’s class thought that Leisel was in big trouble but she was actually getting awesome news. Leisel had told Rosa that if Max wakes for her to yell at her so it didn’t look suspicious. I like Rosa a lot better now than I did at the beginning of the book. Before I thought she was mean and emotionless. This situation showed that she actually does care and she does have feelings. They’re just not shown on the surface.

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  115. Part 6 Question 4: To prevent the Nazis from discovering Max Liesel pretended to fall down and get hurt while she was playing soccer. So she went inside and told Hans and Rosa that Nazis were coming down the street to check in everyone’s basement. Liesel had gotten the Nazis attention when she had fallen down while playing soccer in the street. So when he came to their house and saw her it made him not able to think about what he was really doing there. He didn’t stay in the basement long because they looked just like a nice little family to him. Little did he know that there was Jew just feet from him when he was down there.

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