Vocabulary!! Book Thief!:D:D

Preemptively- taken as a measure against something possible, anticipated, or feared; preventive; deterrent.

Shepherding- One who cares for and guides a group of people, as a minister or teacher. * To herd, guard, tend, or guide as or in the manner of a shepherd.

Irate- angry; enraged. * arising from or characterized by anger.

Evoked- to call up or produce.* Cause to appear.* to produce or suggest through artistry and imagination a vivid impression of reality.

Desecrated- treated with contempt.

Trudged- to walk laboriously or wearily along or over

Gambling- to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.* to take a chance on; venture; risk.vv

Stealing!!:P " Book Thief" Part 3 Question

“Stealing was one of the joys of childhood for Liesel and Rudy.” They were many things that brought Rudy and Liesel together, but it was the stealing that cemented their friendship completely.” Book Thief page 148. As you can see stealing for Rudy and Liesel was not a big deal. They used stealing to benefit themselves. It was the only solution. For example if they were hungry the solution was to steal. If Liesel wanted books one solution was to steal. They didn’t saw stealing as a bad thing to do. The problem is that as you can see Liesel’s life has been very complicated. Her brother died and her mother left her with the foster parents. She now lives in Himmel Street, were they live in a little house, have barely enough money for education and to buy things, and barely have enough food to eat. Liesel and Rudy don’t live a life like us. We receive a good education and thank God we have food to eat. Liesel and Rudy are not receiving a good education at all, so they don’t really know the meaning of stealing. They see stealing like a one option to survive. Rosa and Hand Hubermann work hard and they try their best to find work, earn money, but it seems to be difficult to them. They are doing the best to maintain Liesel. They barely have food to eat and the one solution is for example exchanging things….but what can they exchange of they don’t have so many things? Maybe Han Hubermann’s tobacco, but maybe not everyone will exchange something for tobacco. And Hans Hubermann loves tobacco; he already did his effort to buy 2 books to Liesel, exchanging 8 cigarettes per book. Life has no been very easy for them. I agree that stealing is very bad and should NEVER be done, but it is not Liesel and Rudy’s fault for not having a good education or not having food. Liesel and Rudy did everything to survive. Yes, they are many solutions instead of stealing, but they don’t receive a good education so how are they going to know that stealing is WRONG. It is true that, poor farmer that they stole all of the apples of his tree and that he maybe took a long time and great effort to plant the tree. Maybe this food was to feed their children. But Liesel and Rudy didn’t thought about that, they just wanted to save their lives. When you are hungry and about to die you even don’t think about many options. You do the first thing it comes to your mind. Also if you start thinking, it is better to save someone’s life, and be happy because you were a hero. Instead of knowing that you were unwilling to give and you didn’t save some ones life. As you can remember when Liesel and Rudy stole the apples, each apple was disposed of on the riverbank were she learned to swim. They were not used to such luxury, they knew it was likely they were going to get sick. But they were so hungry that they ate them. For hunger they did stealing. Everybody makes mistakes, and they wished that in their life they could be someone that could give them a good education and tell them what is WRONG and RIGHT.

Book Thief!!! Vocabulary:P:D:D:P

Relinquished: To cease holding physically; release

Charcoal: A black, porous, carbonaceous material; drawing pencil or crayon made from this material. To draw, write, or blacken with a black, carbonaceous material.

Lacerated: mangled; jagged; torn.

Drizzle: To rain gently in fine, mist like drops.

Nefarious: Infamous by way of being extremely wicked.

Smeared: To apply by spreading or daubing

Erect: upright in position or posture

Gangly: tall and thin

Catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change

Book Thief!!! Vocabulary:P:D:D:P

Prediction "Book Thief":P:P:P

When I started reading the "Book Thief” it seemed very difficult, but I read chapter 2 and now I am understanding it better. What I predict that Liesel will become a stronger person. When her brother died she felt really sad and weak because she lost her brother and now she is going to live with her fosters parents” The Hubermanns.” Also she is never going to see her mom again. I think Liesel is going to steal more books and collect them, so see could have something to hold on and a memory of her brother. Also each place where she is going to steals a book, it would be an important place and she is going to past many adventures. She is going to learn how to read first, and I think Ms. Rosa Hubermann will teach her how to read. Liesel will find a way to live and entertain herself. I think she is also going to fight for what she wants. She is going to fight for freedom, she is going to go and find her mother, and maybe try to meet his father. Liesel will past adventure and exciting moments each time she steals a book, but she needs to be careful because the Nazis can find out, and they hate books. The Nazis may burn all the books she has steal or maybe they could get so mad that they could kill her. I think Liesel will die because she can have the disease of her brother Werner, it can be genetic. I think Liesel is going to start getting along better with the Hubermanns. Rosa is going to change her attutide and she is going to start and help Liesel and preparing her for anything that might happen in the future. I think Hans will die because of smoking. I got very curious when death mention about that he only saw Liesel 3 times.....that is very interesting because it makes you think….maybe she was risking herself each time she steeled a book….or maybe death took her the fourth time??? I also think that Liesel’s mother is going to die, but Liesel will first find her and maybe they will die together.

Before We Were Free Question #2- The Mancini's Risk

The Mancini’s are letting Anita and her mother hid in their closet. The Macini’s are hiding the secret, not even Oscar and his sisters know. I think that they are taking the right steps even though they are putting their family in risk just to help their friends. It was a great decision, first step, not to tell Oscar and his sisters that Anita and her mother are hiding in the closet. It was a good decision not telling them because, little kids sometimes by accident they spread the secret and in this case if they spread the secret they are going to get Anita and all of them in big trouble. They shouldn’t tell Oscar and his sisters until all the problems are resolved. I think the Mancini’s are being very good people because not all people would do this thing to save their friends. Other people prefer not risking their family, so I think the Mancini’s had a very big heart and braveness of letting them hide in their closet. I think the Mancini’s understand all the problem and difficulties Anita and her family have been through. The Mancini and Anita’s family have been good friends, I think that was another reason the Mancini’s let them hid in their closet. I am glad that all of them are cooperating to make their country free! They are fitting for freedom and I think every person has the right to be free. Anita’s family has a privilege to have the Mancini’s because Tío Pepe is Italian, so Anita and her mother are safe because SIM cannot enter to the Italian Embassy. Also Tío Toni, Papi and the other people of the group choose The Mancini’s house as a refugee in case of the SIM finds out. My opinion was different from the last one. In the last one I didn’t agree that Tío Toni and Papi would put their family in risk but I also thought freedom was the right decision. Now I change my mind and I think the Mancini’s are taking the right steps to protect their friends, and I think they should fight for freedom until they get what they want……FLY, FLY like BUTTERFLIES!! The Mancinis are doing the right steps because if they didn’t offer the closet, a safe place, I think Anita and her mother would have been killed. I think that Mancini’s did the right thing of keeping up that braveness and fight for freedom! I would have done the same thing. If they would have not do this ….all their plan of being free would end ….because they would get killed… and then the Mancini’s would have regret it!! They should get fitting for FREEDOM!!!!

Before We Were Free Summaries!!!::P:P:P:D

June 10, 1961

It’s a Saturday at late night and the light goes on and off all the time. Anita doesn’t know what time it is anymore because they don’t have electric clocks where they are. Anita is starting to wonder and figuring out small, non important things.

June 11, 1961

It is the second Sunday of hiding and Anita misses the old family gathering. Anita always asks her mom about Papi and Tío Toni. Anita was full of questions until her mother told her that Papi and Tío Toni were alive. Anita’s mother started crying. Tío Pepe gave Anita some advice about how to survive with great minds. So Anita remembers when she was little with Papi and Tío Toni. She was remembering her b-day, so she wished Papi and Tío Toni were free and they were all together as a family.

July 3, 1961

It was Monday night and the little girls went into the room and started playing with Mrs. Mascini’s makeup, and scared Anita and Anita’s mother. They were about to enter the closet to get a coat, but suddenly Oscar and later Mrs. Mascini enter the bedroom. They were playing game cards and the one card that was turned over was the Queen of Hearts. (Symbolism) Of Queen of Hearts means= Anita is in love with Oscar and Anita wants Oscar to be his king and she is going to be the queen.

July 15, 1961

It was Saturday morning when they heard on the Radio Swan: “Long Live the Butterflies!” Anita’s mother told Anita stories about Papi and Tío Toni, and she told Anita about the plan and how things got worse. She also explained about the butterflies and the secret plot.

Before We Were Free Question #1

Tío Toni and Papi are involved with trying to take down the government. I think Tío Toni and Papi are doing I bad thing putting their whole family in danger. I understand that they want to save their country and let it free like butterflies are. But putting their family in risk is very dangerous and I think they should do something. What I think is that first they need to sit and think carefully of consequences that could happen. Imagine that this plan doesn’t work. Trujillo would get very mad and he will kill all of his family. I think the safeties thing to do is send all of their family to the United States so they can be free and safe. Also I think Tío Toni and Papi should think more and make a better and organized plan. They should be careful especially with the SIM. If they get discovered they would get killed. Leaving this all aside, I really admire Tío Toni and Papi, they are so brave that they are putting their lives and their families lives in risk. Tio Toni is the bravest one because he is once got into this problem and now is trying again to see if this time it works. I also agree with them in the part of saving and trying to make their country free. I like the part of them thinking about other people not just themselves. But if I were them I will still never put in risk my family…….but still it is a difficult decision. It is a very difficult decision because if they leave the country….who is going to improve the country??? Who is going to make it FREE??? This is very difficult decision but I think the best decision will be sending all of their family to the U.S.A and Tío Toni and papi….they should stay helping and defending their country!! So they can be FREE!!!

My favorite book in Middle school

My favorite books are "A Series of Unfortunate Events" written by Lemony Snicket. I really like this books because they are very interesting and they are so good that you can't stop reading it! "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is based on a true story. These books are mainly about three children named Violet, Claus, and Sunny. Their father and mother were inventors. They all liked to invent new things, the children always liked to volunteer. One day the children receiced a bad news. The house got all burn up and the parents died. The three children were sent to live with Count Olaf. Count Olaf was so bad and mean that he wanted to kill the children. Count Olaf treated the kids very badly so they moved to live to another place. Count Olaf wanted to kill this children and he never gaved up. He followed the kids everywhere they went, he always got dressed up like another person so the kids couldn't find out. This story continues all along and they found out that all the people which they went to live were all part of the organization VFD. Count Olaf wanted to killed the children to get the fortune their parents have let them. Finally Count Olaf dies and the kids finally felt safe!...This was a GREAT story!! I REALLY liked it!!