The Seven Sided Life Of Liesel Meminger

The Seven Sided Die is a chapter in part 5 of the Book Thief.  I will be talking about the figurative meaning of each side.

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The first side of the die in the book is about the haircut Liesel gave Max.  But of course this meant more than just cutting the of the hair.  It showed that Liesel was not afraid of failure and, in fact, accepted it. It also showed that Max trusted Liesel.

The second side of the die is about how Liesel brings newspapers to Max whenever she can, and if she can it makes her day.  This side of the die does not only represent the extreme friendship between Liesel and Max that no one really understands, it also shows Liesel's dedication to Max.

The Weather Man is when Liesel gives Max A weather forecast.  This reminds you that Max hasn't been outside for a long time and when Liesel comes back and tells max about the Weather He draws what Liesel said and makes a story about it.

The fourth side of the die is about Max fighting Hitler in his dreams.  Eventually Max fights back to Hitlers relentless punching and knocks Hitler over.  But, once Hitler got backup he told the crowd, which represents the citizens of Germany, that they need to help themselves by helping him destroy the Jewish Scum.  They then all come and punch him till he wakes up, or if he is daydreaming, snaps out of it.

The fifth side is just Max telling Liesel about his day dreaming.  Except Max tells her that he wins.

 This is where Liesel walks down the basement to see Mama, Papa, and Max painting over pages of Mein Kampf for Max's next book.  As far as I could tell this part didn't really have a figurative meaning.

This is the longest section of this chapter.  Liesel and Rosa lose their last customer, the Mayor.  The Mayors wife gives Liesel the book "The Whistler" and hopes it makes up for their loss. Unfortunately Liesel did not accept it.  Once Liesel reached the sign that said "STEINER-SCHNEIDER-MEISTER"   she decided to turn around and go back to the mayors house. She threw the Whistler back at the mayors wife's feet and then beats her up with words.  As she does this Liesel see's her brother's ghost, I guess that's what it was, and decided not to listen to him trying to get her to stop.

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