Rudy

Donald as they were only included to give facts to the viewers. Entertaining the audience is the purpose of the characters in The Walk meaning they are able to develop and be given a backstory. The Walk, features Papa Rudy to be Phillippe’s mentor and add more depth to the narrative. Papa Rudy is not in Man on Wire as he was not directly involved in the crossing and therefore has little to add in terms of factual information. In the film, Annie is a busker who also attends art school and Jeff is…

The Book Thief uses World War II as the desolate setting for Liesel’s journey. At the start of this novel, Liesel is innocent and unaware, however it quickly changes with the loss of her brother. This excerpt best forwards the theme that the loss of innocence is simply another casualty among the many of war. The death of her brother is incomprehensible to Liesel, “Still in disbelief, … He couldn’t be dead” demonstrates her inability to face reality. Her childhood has abruptly ended,and has…

From the moment Rudy met Liesel, he had a crush on her. Throughout the book, he always half-joking, half-seriously asked for a kiss from Liesel, who denied every time. This almost subtle characteristic in Rudy is such a relevant factor in making this story not drowning with dread. As well as being a key to comic relief, this really gives this book more sorrow at…

In the last part of the book Liesel is awakened by officials looking for survivors but she is then greeted by her dear friend Rudy whom she never got to love and grow old with. She also sees her two adopted parents cold and breathless, lying in the street and is overcome with emotions. (Zusak 499) Leaving her family was the hardest thing to do but then to waken to the only people…

The Power of Words Words are like snow. Individual snowflakes don’t amount to much by themselves. But when snow combines in large amounts, it can be beautiful, annoying, or destructive. Likewise, words don’t affect anyone very much when they are said or heard without being backed up by others in great amounts with great force. Words are some of the most powerful elements known and invented by the human race. Most world leaders, dignitaries, and managers of companies or movements never obtained…

influence on conformity. The Bully celebrates the war in the streets as it’s announced as if it was a moment that deserved to be recognized, and then proceeds to bully Liesel and Rudy throughout the film due to them not being as loyal to the Nazi regime as he is. The Bully threatens to call the authorities on Liesel and Rudy for a suspect book that Liesel owned which most defiantly could’ve put both of their lives at jeopardy. The following show that propaganda can…

It has been 70 years since the end of World War II and there have been many books and movies written about the Holocaust. It is important that we learn from these sources so that we are not condemned to repeat our pasts. Art Spiegelman, author and narrator of the graphic novel Maus, wrote a biography about his father’s experiences during World War II. While The Book Thief is a movie about a young German girl being brainwashed by Nazi propaganda and her experiences during the war as well. While…

In both Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the characters were put in a situation where they were exposed to a different setting than where they came from and it interfered with their identity. Changez had trouble finding aspects from his home, Pakistan to keep with him in his new country, America. The sisters struggled to balance characteristics from Dominican Republic and America because of the huge difference in the…

Hubermann in the fictional city of Molching, Germany. Her brother dies on the way there and is buried. She then steals the first book called the Grave Digger's Handbook. While her stay at the Hubermanns’ she learns to read from Mr. Hans. She then meets Rudy Steiner, the neighbor who has fallen for her. At a book burning, she realizes that her father and mother are killed by the Nazi’s. Soon after, Max Vandenburg, a Jewish man hiding from the Nazi’s in the Hubermann basement. They both become…

fiction book that portrays hate well in the Holocaust is The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. The people of Germany hated Hitler, as shown in the following quote. “Rudy stopped. ‘Because I want to kill him.’ he even turned on the spot, to the rest of the world. ‘Did you hear that, you bastards?’ he shouted. ‘I want to kill the Führer” (Zusak 424)! Rudy hated Hitler for sending his papa to war, even if he himself was born and raised in Germany. Another character who dealt with hate and especially…