Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann are characters in Markus Zusak’s novel “The Book Thief” and in “The Book Thief”, to what extent can you justify Hans and Rosa Hubermann’s dangerous actions? The Hubermanns are intensely complex characters with complex motivations and thought processes, but by reading into the novel and exploring author’s purpose you can discover character traits, motivations, strengths, and weaknesses for every character. Although Hans and Rosa face an unfortunate internal conflict, and they are only human, they act selflessly throughout the novel, endangering their foster daughter’s life and their own life multiple times, eventually with indirectly fatal consequences for Hans. Hans is a softer character, while Rosa is tough and aggressive, and this power dynamic helps them function and helps them protect those who they’ve chosen to bring into their lives and protect. Hans is the brains, doing what he can physically to help, while Rosa manages her family and tries to keep food on the table. Their actions make more sense through a moral lens than they do through a historical or practical lens, and this makes you look at the novel and the characters much differently than you would in a more conventional holocaust story. Research for this piece was done by reading into Zusak’s “The Book Thief” and studying the actions and motivations of each character independently, as well as by considering the actions and text using prior knowledge of the time period, important historical events and geography of the area in the novel

The Book ThiefMarkus Zusak · Knopf · 201612,5bin okunma

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