The Book Thief Friendship Analysis

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When people have a bond together, it is pretty much unbreakable. Having a connection is more than just knowing the other person but feeling what they are feeling and being hurt when they are hurt. It is almost being the same person. All good things come to an end but a true friendship never does. Friendship was a key part of Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief. In The Book Thief, Zusak tells a story of a young German girl and her foster parent’s struggles throughout the process of saving a Jewish man from the Nazis. The message of the book is when having a special friendship with someone can be just enough to face through the worst of times. The world can be a cruel place but it stands no chance against true friendship. Zusak shows an excellent …show more content…
First, Liesel and Rudy together overcome their shortage of food by stealing. Although it is not the right thing to do, it was necessary as it was for their health and survival. To solve this, they steal different foods from all different places like apples from farms. Both faced many roadblocks trying to steal food but with their teamwork, they were able to fulfill their goal. Death states while they were stealing apples:“Two debundant apple thieves whispering ‘Liesel are you sure? Do you still want to do this? Look at the barbed wire Rudy. It’s so high’”(152). By doing this, Rudy and Liesel were able to escape their hunger and desire for food. Second, Rudy is able to help Liesel to overcome the loneliness in her heart by always being right by her side. Together they do almost everything, plan and do rebellious acts, stay hungry, happy carefree and even a little bit tired. This is proven when Rudy plans on stealing from Otto Sturm. Rudy says, “All those priests, they’re all fat anyway. They could do with a feed a week or so. Liesel could only agree... she was pretty hungry herself”(152). Afterward,, Liesel and Rudy were able to come up with a plan and ready to put it in action, Otto Sturm passes by and “wasted no time in losing control of the bike, sliding across the ice, and lying face down the road…[Rudy] crept slowly out, removed the basket and …show more content…
To begin, right from the start Hans was able to aid Liesel and overcome her sadness and grief of losing her brother and her real mother by accompanying her with his love. Whenever Liesel dreamt about her brother and mother “she would wake up swimming in her bed, screaming and drowning in the flood of sheets...Possibly the only good to come out of [those] nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa into the room, to see her, to lover her”(36). Hans went through his own way to help Liesel, her new daughter, in the time of her sadness. Therefore, he cheers Liesel up in her horrific phase in life with the medicine of love. Next, Hans helps Liesel with her difficulty with reading and writing. Reading and writing are not easy when faced the pressure to know as she was older. When Hans finds out she is not able to read when he asks to read a part of The Grave Digger’s Handbook. He asks her to “‘read some for [him].’ ‘But of course, she couldn’t. When he made made her point out any words she could read and actually say them, there were only three’...’This time when he came back, he said’ ‘Actually I have a better idea.’ ‘In his hand, there was a thick painter pencil and a stack of sandpaper.’ ‘Let’s start from scratch’”(67). Hans never gave up on Liesel and Liesel never gave up on herself and was
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