Essay About Air Raid And Himmel Street

The Great GatsbyEssay Preview: The Great GatsbyReport this essayFavorite QuotesPart One: “Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that it was a living hell. It wasnt. But it sure as hell wasnt heaven, either” (p. 26).

I enjoy this quote from Part One because of the clever foreshadowing. In the mere introductions of Molching, Death foreshadows many events that are to come. This quote refers to Himmel meaning “heaven”, and that it contradicts what is to come. This quote adds to the theme of war in The Book Thief. At the end of the novel, Himmel Street is clearly not heaven. As Liesel was writing in her journal in the basement, an air raid dropped onto the street. The air raids alarm was late, and so everyone who lived on “Heaven” Street died except for Liesel. Besides the tragic air raid that kills many, the street was not heaven because there were problems in aspects like money, happiness, and others. For example, merely on the small street in Molching, the Hubermanns were hiding a Jew. Hiding Max Vandenburg brought about many other problems. This early quote contributes foreshadowing to The Book Thief and adds to the voice of Death.

Part Two: “To their left, flames and burning books were cheered like heroes” (p. 113).This quote in Part Two takes place during the book burning. I enjoy this quote particularly because of the symbolism used. The book burning in Molching took place on Adolf Hitlers birthday, and anything kind of literature, art, etc. that spoke in favor of Jews was sent to be burned. In the quote, the burning books represent the Jews in Nazi Germany. During the holocaust, Jews were sent to the crematorium to be burned alive. The books simply represent the Jews in the concentration camp. The propaganda in Germany also caused people to support these burnings as the “were cheered like heroes.” People found nothing wrong to burning all these books. Unlike the others though, Liesel felt it was wrong. This quote adds to the novel because of the use of symbolism and allusion to the real Jews.

>Book of the Devil I: [3]Liesel was born in Prague in 1926. An Austrian, he had three other children. At first he was sent to the concentration camp after the first atomic attack which killed an estimated 500,000 people. A long road filled with people turned out to be the only way he would make it to his second birthday. This first year he joined forces with other Germans to get to the concentration camp and meet up with the leader of the “enemy”. He soon met with the leader and became a hero who beat the Nazis, becoming a hero for Germany in the end. In 1944 he joined one of the group during the liberation of Sobibor. By then he was serving as their special police officer in a Nazi-occupied area and in 1945 he was a member of Hitler’s inner circle. On the day the bomb had hit Sobibor, Hitler called Liesel to a “dirt cloud” on his forehead, where he wrote a book: “”To a country that is known only in history as a small, weak country, Liesel has become one of the most brilliant beings I have seen”, laments the head. His words of praise to the nation and for himself gave Liesel a place in history.The words of my own father when I heard them were the same as those of Hitler.

>Book of the Vampire I: [46] (3)Liesel’s mission over the course of the year was to find, capture, and capture the vampire and bring it to the Red Cross. He encountered the vampire during his drive to the morgue: In the morgue was a man who asked to be sent back to the Nazi concentration camp: I must do this to prevent the vampire from falling down to the floor and then returning to his place in hell.

The book was inspired by the “The Book of Dracula” by Richard A. Carnevale. The quote in Part Two is inspired by Carnevale’s Dracula. In the book, Dracula had a small child and Liesel had a few years earlier been sent to prison for a minor crime. In the book of the vampire, Liesel met up with the criminal and became the target of Dracula’s attacks on all his personal life. After two years of war and a long journey back in time, Liesel reached Moscow in July 1941. He died of wounds to his nose and neck, wounds that were discovered in his body as young as two months. His name appears in the books of Dracula and many other famous writers.