Compassion In The Book Thief

Readers can see from Death’s point of view on why he’s haunted by humans, and it’s because of his/her confusion on how man is complicated in that it can be both brutal and also at the same time compassionate. Through this, Death provides a direct mirror view of mankind. By using second person authorial, readers are able to feel more connected within the book. Death seems more welcoming, inviting the reader to see things his/her way. “Come with me and I’ll tell you a story.

To begin with when Castle made his high tops low tops it was the first time when shoes played a big role in the book. When Castle cut his shoes to go faster but this only hurt him because his classmate Shamika embarrassed him. “Shamika couldn’t get herself together long enough to even speak, so instead she just pointed at my feet” (Reynolds 80). What Shamika did made Castle so frustrated that he skipped school and made him realize it was a waste of money which was already a problem in his family. Another time shoes played a big role was when Castle stole the “Silver Bullets” from the sports store.

In the novel Whirligig, by Paul Fleischman, is a novel about Brent a teenage boy who only really cares about being popular who decides to take his life while driving home from a party but instead he takes Lea Zamora’s life and as punishment Lea’s mother asks Brent to build a whirligig representing Lea at every corner and we see interleaving chapters with people coming across the whirligigs and how their lives have changed because of them. In the important event of Brent killing Lea in a car crash we see a positive effect and consequences on Brent because of this event showing the key idea that all actions have consequences. The positive effects being Brent Learning that we never know who we really are until we step away from other influences around us, that in the journey of life we’ll go through rough patches however it’s how we get out of them that counts and that

In this book Glory is overwhelmed with how her town is handling people who are different than they are. She realizes that her favorite local pool is closing down so colored people can’t swim with the whites. Glory becomes an activist herself and writes a letter to the newspaper lining which makes her preacher father proud. Therefore, the theme of this book is to treat everyone equally, such as when Glory’s friend Frankie from Ohio drinks out of the “colored fountain”. Also, when Glory’s sisters boyfriend that he was arrested for sitting with a “colored friend” at the white table.

Examples of redemption and forgiveness are evident throughout the book. In his childhood, Louie repeatedly caused trouble in his neighborhood. The community, in which Louie lived, resented his menacing behavior. As his community learned to forgive Louie for his petty crimes, Louie redeemed his negative reputation by channeling his energy to run for his school’s track team. In Unbroken, Louie grew to forgive Mac for eating all of the chocolate after they fell into the sea (Hillenbrand,

The storm started to come down, so they took off for home. I heard Doodle who had fallen behind, cry out, “Brother, Brother, don’t leave me! Don’t leave me!” (Hurst 6). Good brothers would come back and get their brother if he was screaming.

(p.416) This is one of the reasons of how the brother causes Doodles death because he made him work to hard and by having little concern for Doodle and more about his pride from what he

Standing with his frantic mother as the train rolled backward in search for the young boy. Louie’s older brother, Pete, spotted Louie strolling up the track in perfect serenity”(5). This quote explained how Louis’ mischievous childhood and jumped from a train just because it was impractical. After this ordeal, Louis strolled down the tracks, as if he just accomplished a trivial feat; in other words, it was no big deal to Louis. Shortly after this event, when the conductor chased after Louis: “‘I knew you’d come back,’ he said in Italian”.(5)

For example in paragraph 78 ther author says “I’m going i said.” In paragraph 78, for example, the character does go on the bridge to try to start his bravery and he is trying to do it in front of his friends. He wants to make his friends look like wimps while he does bravery thongs so they can go home. “Maybe the other guys had chickened out if they had, I could quit because of them.”

Darry is a guy who always stands up for his brothers. For example, Darry got a scholarship for athletics and he gave up the scholarship to take care of his younger brothers. Another example is how Darry doesn’t allow Ponyboy more than a pack of cigarettes a day. We can see this when Darry says, “Pony if you smoke more than a pack today and I will skin you. You understand.”

“You’re Beowulf, are you – the same boastful fool who fought a swimming match with Brecca and lost” said Unferth within lines 239-24. Beowulf knew that he could handle the demon, but Unferth was furious because he felt as if the Danes people and himself, could fight their own battles. He felt as if it made his people look bad, because they needed help from an outside hero. I feel as if in that same way some people around our school look at someone and just think they aren’t what or who they say they are. During football season, some of the guys that I thought were my friends would talk about how I wasn’t any good or couldn’t save the team from a big play at any given moment.

Its part of the game. According to an interview with Jordan Reed, When the interview took place Reed angrily told reporters “All I did was shoot a free throw,” He continues, “It was an outrageous call (or flag)”A lot of players were upset about the new rules with celebrations and how they get flagged 15 yards for a celebration. Some people believe that banning celebrations teaches the youth good sportsmanship and to be humble. According to the NFL the, after the league commissioner Roger Goodell banned celebrations he said, “Players have no respect for each other,” Roger then says, “maybe the players will show more sportsmanship. ”The NFL and Roger Goodell thinks most players have giant egos, it doesn’t help to let them taunt other players.

Laron wished it was all a dream. As Laron left home to go his friend, his mom said, “Be safe, Laron. You know a lot of violence is going to be going on around this time of the season.” Laron ignored his mother thinking she was being overprotective.

In the story “So I ain’t no Good Girl “written by Sharon Flakes. I felt like the scene was very realistic, the characters made the scene very realistic by the way they were acting. The author described the scene pretty good when she said: “if I scream at him the whole street could hear me”. I can also relate to the scene in my everyday life. A boy and his girlfriend where at a bus stop with some other girls, And Raheem starts to act a little flirter with the good girls who made his girlfriend kind of upset about the situation, so she tries to talk about it, but he got mad at her and ended up making out with the good girl.

She orders Veronica to forge a romantic note from him, and gives it to Martha. She tries to stop them, but backs down when the Heathers threaten to destroy her social life ("Candy Store"). Their threats are witnessed by a mysterious, trenchcoat-wearing, Baudelaire-quoting new kid, Jason "J.D." Dean, who criticizes Veronica for betraying her friend in exchange for popularity. Ram and Kurt take the opportunity to pick a fight with him, and he unexpectedly fights back and defeats them.