Plan:
Introduction
- introduce power of words
- magical realism
- you can rule the world with words
- helps give perspective
- introduce: irony, through liesels story (how words effectively rescued her), the pain in words?
- in each paragraph say about magical realism like why
1st paragraph
- irony
- “Yes the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. “I will never fire a gun… I will not have to’”
- talk about fuhrer
- liesel stealing books while hitler burning them – almost like shes trying to go against nazi germany single handedly
- death
2nd paragraph
- liesels story (how words rescued her)
- magical realism feature that showed that is deaths narration
- “Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now… she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or pieced together a sentence. She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words.”
3rd paragraph
- used good word choice to show words held pain
- “You could argue that Liesel Meminger had it easy. She did have it easy compared to Max Vandenburg. Certainly, her brother had practically died in her arms. Her mother abandoned her. But anything was better than being a Jew.” – could maybe use this quote to show that words rescued her. she had had a hard life but she was okay because of words.
- “…More spiteful and evil than she thought herself capable. The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.” – Liesel reacts to the mayor’s wife telling her that they no longer needed Rosas services.
- “…but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.” – what the mayor’s wife said
Conclusion
- “*** THE BOOK THEIF – LAST LINE *** I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”