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The Book Thief > Question 7.

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message 1: by Carol (new)

Dec 01, 2011 07:16AM

Carol Jones-Campbell (cajonesdoajunocom) | 640 comments

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7. Compare and contrast the lives of Liesel and Max Vandenberg. How does Max's life give Liesel purpose and at what point do they become friends.

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message 2: by Carol (new)

Dec 03, 2011 11:28AM

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I loved these two people and their relationship. Max gave Liesel purpose by having someone to take care of and care for, she used him as a role that when her Dad
was gone. Their reading and cartoons was a very interesting part of the book to me. I was intrigued that Max whited/painted out Mein Kemph and turned it into a book that gave Liesel his Autobiography, and helped her understand his story. It also helped her to cover the nightmares of her brothers death.

I think there's more, will add more before too long.

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message 3: by Ashley (new)

Dec 06, 2011 12:10PM

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Carol, I also thought it was very interesting that Max wrote the Standover Man over Mein Kampf. Death describest those pages as "gagging, suffocating under the paint," which is a lovely image of Max's story subverting Hitler's story--BUT the words of Mein Kampf STILL SHOWED THROUGH! He couldn't block them completely, could he?

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