The Standover Man

From pages 221-236 Liesel finds a "book" that the Jew that is hiding in her basement wrote.  Of course more happened in this chapter.  Max the Jew came to the door of the Hubermanns.  Hans and Rosa had to let him in because Hans owed Max's dad a favor.  They where friends in the army but max's Father died.  Max lives in the basement hiding from the Germans.  Liesel slowly teaches him how to read and write. Of course that is how Max wrote "The Standover Man".  Its about how people always stood over him and were more important then him.  But in the end he discovers that the most important stand over man to him wasn't actually a man but just a girl, Liesel.

CHAPTER SUMMARY

Hans owes the Vandenburg's a favor because Max's father saved Hans' life during WWI

Liesel brought Max extra food.  She helped him learn to read and write by writing on the wall in the basement with Han's paint.

Look Here Too

The Book of Fire

Liesel now stole her second book!  Of course as you can tell from the title she steals it from fire.  The Nazis were burning books and as the fire was burning out Liesel reached in and grabbed a book.  She stole it after little hesitation.  At first it was to hot to hide because it was hot.  But it was wet to so it wasn't burning.  After a while she was able to put it into her coat and there you have it, book #2, stolen.  After the book got to hot in her shirt she pulled it out and showed it to Hans,  then she realized it was called The Shoulder Shrug.

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Liesel's third book came to her, she didn't steal it. Of course she didn't exactly like it, because it was written by Hitler.  Mein Kampf.  Liesel gets it from Hans after he buys it for a few cigs.  This is book number three in Liesels very special collection of books.

Figurative Language about the Book Thief

Figuramative Language  (Figurative Language)

Lots of figuratively every where in the Book Thief.  If you look really hard you can probably find an example of every type of figurative language.  Heres a few for ya.

1. Double Epithet-  "You Dummkopf- you Idiot."(Zusak, 78).( This is what the kids in her school were calling when she couldn't read a word.  And for some reason the book she wanted to read a book called "The Grave Diggers Handbook".  I'm not sure what she needed that for...

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    2.Metaphor-"A Girl Made of Darkness"(Zusak, 83).  This is the title of one of the chapters in The           Book Thief.  Obviously the girl is not made out of darkness, I think. But if this was a simile it                 would have like or as in it, so its a metaphor.

METAPHORS

    3.Personification-"Dead Letters"(Zusak, 97),  Another title of a chapter, these two words are pure personification.  The letters are definitely not dead because they were never living.  Giving a object human qualities is personification.

    4.Metonymy-"The book penned by the Füher himself"(Zusak, 125).  A metonymy is when a you replace a word with a attribute of that word like penned for wrote or eyes for sight.  If you take this sentence like it is then it doesn't make any sense but take it as a metonymy and it means Hitler wrote a book.




As you can probably tell The Book Thief is a very figurative book.  The reason for this is that the book is narrated by death itself.  Which is also figurative because death is personified.  So this book is Figurative inside a narrated by figurativity.

Zusak, Markus. The book thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print.

The Grave Digger's Handbook

If you have read "The Book Thief" or are reading you probably know what I'm talking about.  Liesel, the main character, steals her first book.  Of course its from the grave digger that was burying Liesel's brother who died on the train too there new guardians, the Hubermanns, which Liesel now had to live with by herself.

The first book of the story of Liesel will bring you a little bit of everything, from Rosa Hubermann, her ungrateful foster mom, to almost having to kiss Rudy Steiner, her strange neighbor. Its describes what it was like living as a German citizen in a small town near the large German city of Munich under the rule of Hitler.  Also Liesel beats up another shool mate during recess. "She stood up and took the book from him and as he smiled over his shoulder at some other kids she threw it away and kicked him as hard as she could in the vicinity of the groin"(  In the prologue there was tons of figurative language because it was narrated through deaths eyes. 

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Map of where Liesel Lived.

Wind: Concerning Windmills and Nor'easters

Electricity is a major problem in Nor'easters.  A Nor'easter is a deadly combination of hurricanes and blizzards making it a electricity hazard.  But, since a Nor'easter produces a massive amount of wind, can't we harness the wind in a windmill and use it to create electricity in the darkness?

As you can see above the Nor'easter is demolishing the Eastern part of Pennsylvania, where I'm from.

That is why I'm concerned about the electricity.  Today all the windmills you can buy are very, very expensive and are also not durable enough for hurricane force winds.  If you watch the video below you will see that a commercial sized windmill can be torn apart in high winds.  If that doesn't work for you here ya go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlsJA9rcHOs

I plan, with my team to create a cheap durable windmill kit that can withstand winds exceeding ∞.  Of course that is a bit of an exaggeration but, go hard or go home.

Without the Left Or Right You Are Not Right

I bet you're wondering what the title means right now.  I'm actually talking about the brain.  The brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right.  The right controls all of creativity and context.  The left controls language and generally is the part with the smarts.  Without one side of the brain you would be speechless.  Literally.  Without the right you can't comprehend anything, or almost anything.  Of course the left would control reading, but without the right you can't comprehend the text.  Here is an example. It said in the text the left is for text the right is for context.  This is very true because you can hardly do anything if you don't have both hemispheres active in your brain.

  

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I know we watched this video in class but it proves my point very well.  Since she lost the left side of her brain to a stroke, temporarily, But when she tried talking on the phone she just made mumbling sounds because she didn't have the left side of her brain.  If she didn't have the right she wouldn't be able to talk either.  Therefore if you lost one side permanently she would not live a normal life.  So my point is you can't live a good life without both sides of your brain.  Therefore without the left or right you are nnot right.

       There is many activities you can use to determine if you are left or right hemisphered.  I'll put a few below this.

Heres some games-GAME GAME

Books Vs. Life

A few days ago in school, we read an article by the name of ,"Habits Of The Mind".  They weren't exactly what most people think of habits as. The were like thinking flexibly and being persistent. So I connected those "habits" to life.  When I say Books Vs. Life I mean books as in the paper we have recently read and other books that are non-fiction or historical fiction.  The book I'm comparing I haven't actually read I've just read summaries. I can infer what the book Is like and how I can compare the book to life.  "Good problem solvers stick to a problem until its completed".  Louis Zamperini will demonstrate that text which is from the "Habits Of The Mind" report.  The main character of this book demonstrates persistence, and if you think about other habits of the mind including: Thinking flexibly and striving for accuracy and precision.  He survived his horrible experience using the habits of the mind.  Without them he would of drowned in about 1 minute.  Therefore these habits are very important in all states of life.

The book we will talk about is": Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

This book Is about a young lieutenant named Louis Zamperini.  As  a child Louis was a pretty juvenile kid.  He broke into houses, got into brawls, and was just generally bad kid. Before he joined the the armed forces he was an athlete in the olympics. His experience of crashing from a plane into the ocean changed his life forever.  I connected this book to my life because I see some kids that persist(one of the habits of the mind) through a lot in school.  They persist through homework and... school PERIOD.