Rudy

or negotiate their border identity. It presents a struggle that at once questions, alters, and submits to multiple societal and cultural connotations and ideologies. The short prose of “Remember The Alamo” consists of a male narrator identified as Rudy, as his exposition continues, we are introduced to another male character known as Tristàn.…

Rudy Ruettiger once said, “Dream big. Never quit.” This quote ties in with my dream to attend the University of Notre Dame because if I never quit and keep working hard, maybe I’ll achieve my goal. Attending the University of Notre Dame is my dream because I started watching Notre Dame Football games since I was 6 years old. When I first stepped foot on campus, in 2006, I thought to myself, “I want to go to school here.” This dream is important to me because I have wanted to go to school there…

blued-eyed, into a crime. Criminalization and discrimination was also shown in the play after Max and Rudy, Max’s boyfriend, who Max is often vexed by, was captured by the secret police and taken into a van to transport them to a concentration camp. On the van, the guards were beating up Rudy because he was gay, and were tempted to beat up Max as well if he showed any signs that he was gay or knew Rudy. Because of this situation, I believe that Max was trying to hide his homosexuality. For…

In The Book Thief, based on the events that take place, Markus Zusak is able to convey the theme “Courage is needed when completing deeds of goodness,” by using conflict development. The first example of an act of goodness requiring courage is when Walter, Max Vandenburg’s childhood friend, makes the dangerous journey to Hans Hubermann to be informed whether or not Max Vandenburg would be able to stay with them. In this case, Walter Kugler is going against the Nazi society. He decides that it is…

disorder are the personality functioning deficiencies. In reference to Rudy’s case-study, and being his psychiatrist, I think he would not open up entirely, or he would lie about his problems because some of the acts he has done are very shameful. Rudy has a neural development disorder which specifically Autism Spectrum Disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). People that exhibit this disorder usually have a deficit in their communication such as they are not able to give an…

Once Rudy delves into the basement of the house is it then he realizes what has happened to him and the others in the house. They have all become like monsters, the first being Teddy, who had become “attached to the slime-coated upper wall of the basement, hanging…

through their actions. Hans, Rudy and Max all prove that there can be a light in the darkness in hard times like the holocaust. To start off, throughout the novel Hans Hubermann shows that he is a loving and caring man who always shows his beauty through his selfless actions. During one of the weekly death marches, he gave a Jew a stale piece of bread: “The Jew stood before him, expecting another handful of derision,…

befriends a boy named Rudy. Meanwhile, the political situation in Germany worsens, with food and work shortages, and a Jewish man named Max arrives at the Hubermanns' house. Max hides in the basement, becoming friends with Liesel, who reads to him. Liesel steals books from the mayor's wife's library, and Max writes a book for her on the pages of Hitler's autobiography. Max leaves the basement when Hans is punished for helping a Jewish man, and Hans is drafted into the army. Rudy is recruited to…

represented just as well as in the book. Liesel’s relationships with Rudy, Hans, Max, Death, and books are all great examples of how well a book can be interpreted into a movie. Liesel’s relationship with Rudy is more playful than her relationships with other people because he is her best friend. In the book, they first meet on the street when they were playing soccer and became friends immediately. In the movie, they just met when Rudy came to Liesel’s house to take her to school. The…

“The book thief lived to a very old age, far away from Molching and the demise of Himmel Street…. In her final visions, she saw…a long list of lives that merged with hers (Zusak 543).” This is a small excerpt from The Book Thief, which was written by Markus Zusak. It is a World War II story about a young girl and her story; of thieving, of loving, of yelling, and of all that happened through her life. Although there were lots of people, of Himmel Street, who changed, the main person who changed…