Rudy Steiner: Timeline Rudy meets Liesel and immediately befriends her. He also immediately proclaims his romantic love for her. They become friends and join an apple stealing gang together. When a bully tosses Liesel’s book in the Amper River, Rudy saves it for her and asks her for a kiss for the last time. Rudy […]
The first is The Gravedigger’s Handbook, stolen on January 13, 1939, the day Liesel’s brother dies, and the day she last sees her mother. It’s a metaphor being that death will stay with liesel forever and The book burning scene is important to Liesel, but symbolically, it goes beyond her story. … For the Nazis, […]
This poem is about a young girl, around 16 years of age telling us what her mind is like as she is going through depression and anxiety. It is describing the outlook she has on life and what the writer is going through and all the challenging thoughts that you can experience going through the […]
Liesel – Young Girl, Age of 9-15, Goes to foster family (Hubermann). The Book Thief. Stong, Hans -Foster father of Liesel Meminger (Papa), Quiet, gentle, loving and very subtle. Rosa -Foster mother of Liesel Meminger (Mama), Rough outside but loving inside, firm and strong. Always wants money for her family. Rudy – one of six […]
Things fall apart Okonkwo Personal Response In the novel ‘Things fall apart’ by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is portrayed as an extremely driven and respected man. Okonkwo has a few bad flaws; his obsession to be the opposite to his father and his uncontrollable temper. All of his hard work and excellence comes to ruins when […]
What do EACH of these colours represent in these pages? What do they show is taking place? What atmosphere or feeling is created around the characters and events through this colour imagery? What do the colours make you think of? * Include quotations from these pages for EACH colour, to support your explanation of the […]
Introduction: The poems ”Dulce et Decorum Est”, “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Exposure” written by Wilfred Owen. Wilfred uses numerous language techniques throughout these poems in order to bring the idea of how war is not glorious and how it is “pointless” and a “waste of youth”. Similes, and Metaphors are used in these poems […]
‘The Wave’ Written by Morton Rhue. The Wave is a novel that demonstrates leadership, independence, and bravery. This novel is about a year 12 history class at Gordon High School studying World War Two. The students did not understand why the other German citizens hadn’t realised what Hitler and the Nazis were doing to […]
Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us . . . Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient . . . Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens. Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching […]