#21: “The heat was still strong enough to warm her when she stood at the foot of the ash heap. Technique: Truncated sentence, descriptive language.Papa would say a word and the girl would have to spell it aloud and then paint it on the wall, as long as she got it right. #20: “There were few luxuries in the Huberman household, but there was an oversupply of paint, and it became more than useful for Liesel’s learning. Technique: Plosives, juxtaposition, truncated sentence.#19: “…but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. Characters: About Liesel and Ilsa Hermann.#18: “Hermann… gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life” Chapter: ILSA HERMANN’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK.Technique: Truncated sentence, rhetorical question, anaphora.Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this. #16: “The Führer decided that he would rule the world with words” Chapter: THE GAMBLERS (A SEVEN-SIDED DIE).Technique: Repetition, tricolon, truncated sentences.More spiteful and evil than she thought herself capable. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or pieced together a sentence.” #14: “Once, words had rendered Liesel useless but now… she felt an innate sense of power. #13: “When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything” Technique: Antithesis, paradox, tricolon. #12: “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. Chapter: THE END OF THE WORLD (Part II).Technique: Rhetorical question, factual tone.Then again, who am I kidding? I’m in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.” #11: “I climbed quickly up and took it in my hand… It’s lucky I was there. Characters: Death, about Michael Holtzapfel.In the lead-up to his death, the girl had realized that he wasn’t sleeping, that each night was like poison” #10: “It was explained to me that in the end, Michael Holtzapfel was worn down not by his damaged hand or any other injury, but by the guilt of living. “You’ll soon be going home,” he assured him. #9: “A man with a bandaged hand was telling the mute, shock-faced soldier that he would survive. In mid-February, a few days before Liesel was thirteen, he came to the fireplace on the verge of collapse. #8: “He would struggle to wake up next to the fire, sleeping well into the morning instead, his mouth distorted and his cheekbones starting to swell. Chapter: ONE TOOLBOX, ONE BLEEDER, ONE BEAR.Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.” #6: “They say that war is death’s best friend, but… war is like the new boss who expects the impossible.” Chapter: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE JEWISH FIST FIGHTER.#5: “When death captures me,” the boy vowed, “he will feel my fist on his face.” Personally, I quite like that. Technique: repetition, observational tone and statement, metaphor.#4: “I’ve seen so many young men… who think they’re running at other young men. Technique: Rhetorical question, listing, tricolon.Characters: Death, about Liesel’s mother.#3: “How could that woman walk? How could she move? That’s the sort of thing I’ll never know, or comprehend – what humans are capable of.” She saw his feet and legs and body slap the platform?” #2: Liesel was sure her mother carried the memory of him, slung over her shoulder. Technique: Irony, metaphor, meta-fiction.Characters: Max, reading his story about Hitler to Liesel.He planted them day and night, and cultivated them.” “I will not have to”… his first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible. #1: “I will never fire a gun.” he devised. Download our list of The Book Thief quotes now!
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