I am making progress- hit page 320 last night. Sorry I am so behind. I feel like I will finish quickly though now that I am pretty far into it.
Even though it is not "another book about the holocaust", I can't help but think about that whole horror. Each night after I put the book down I think how I would react if I lived in that time. In that country. If I were Max. Or Liesel. What would I do to find hope or happiness? It truly is such a terrible period in history. I cannot fathom it.
"In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring and beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them..." (p 255)
I do love the way Zusak writes.
And great characters worth getting to know. Each full of their own kind of goodness.
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i am the same way and i wonder how i would react. it is easy to look back and say what you would have done (or what you would have hoped to have done), but when you have the "fists of an entire nation" against you, really, it would be so hard, especially if you had a family and it could put them at risk too. still, i hope i would hide people in my house, or find someway to revolt against it all. because it's sickening. that's what it so great about history, i guess. it enlightens us for the future and helps us plan how we would act. but what makes me sick now is that these types of things are still happening in africa. maybe not to the 6 million scale, but to the half million scale (sudan). and in the past, rwanda & the congo. and i wish i could do something.
i watched a documentary the other night on hitler and we all know he is crazy, but i learned some new crazy things about his outlook on life and some personal things and the man is delussional.
is it really sick of me to say that i think he got the easy way out by taking his own life? i know he will be held accountable on judegment day, but still.
I agree Linds about Hitler.
And it has got me thinking about things like this going on today like you mentioned...
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