We start this booking thinking shes going to be a textbook mean mommy. At moments, rosa would scold or yell vulgar remarks at liesel. As a father figure to liesel, he represents paternal selfsacrifice. Analyzing characters of the book thief through song. The story reveals through her treatment of liesel and willingness to take in max, however, that beneath her tough exterior she is in fact kind and caring. Death, as the narrator of the novel, dedicates his. Character profile for rosa hubermann from the book thief page 1. The grave diggers handbook, a training book about grave digging, which liesel meminger protagonist found lying in the snow at werner meminger s funeral. Rosa hubermann a rosa by any other name would be as strict.
She is a squat woman with a rough exterior, who calls liesel a saumensch, a female swine, and hans a saukerl, the male equivalent. Liesel steals her first book, titled the grave diggers handbook, when it falls out of the gravediggers pocket. She is very short, with an extremely wrinkled face, and has brownygrey elastic hair often tied up in a bun, and chlorinated eyes. She does the washing and ironing for many of molchings wealthy inhabitants and has liesel help her with the work.
Rosa thinks about her husband constantly, and the thoughts about him make her have the debate in her mind of is he alive or dead. She is seen by death one day and catches his interest. From the beginning of the story rosa is portrayed as a mean woman with a tight bun of grey hair. He terrorizes rudy and tommy, eventually breaking rudys ribs after rudy throws a rock source him.
Liesels foulmouthed, often aggravating, foster mother. She has two children of her own, trudy and hans jr. The book thief 20 emily watson as rosa hubermann imdb. Rosa is married to hans hubermann and they all live in a home in molching germany. I believe this has been mentioned before, either in the book or by myself, but i have no idea where exactly that reference is, so either im making things up, or i am right. When we first meet her, we dont necessarily trust her with liesel.
Rosa hubermann mama rosa is liesels sharptongued foster mother. The book thief analysis songs that illustrate the characters. Her younger brother had just died and her communist mother was rumored to be running for her life. Liesel meminger is the protagonist in the novel, the book thief. The book thief main character phrase she feels she has never been given her rightful due, which is intensified when her clothes washing business begins to fail due to the war. For liesel, the main character in the book thief by markus zusak, the answer to both of those questions is hans hubermann, her foster father.
The rest of the book is spent explaining these subjects. She also develops as her confidence and ability to read and write improves. She is taken away by air raid officers, and it is at this moment that death finds and takes her book, the book thief. She lives with her husband hans hubermann and liesel meminger. Rosa hubermann was a good woman for a crisis zusak 211. Rudy steiner is liesels neighbor and eventual best friend. Liesels foster father and husband of rosa, hans is a former german soldier during the. Geoffrey rush credits the book and script with providing the initial critical path to hans. To be truthful the book had fallen to the ground and she picked it up. Very different from his family, especially the side that he does not know about. Another noteworthy point is that the first was stolen from snow and the second from fire. An analysis on markus zusaks the book thief, the world war ii. The book thief is a novel by australian author markus zusak.
The book thiefs desire to hear a note was exhausting, and still, it would not come. The book thief part four the swapping of nightmares. Faust the dog, written by mattheus ottleberg, a christmas gift from hans and rosa hubermann to liesel meminger. At first his age is a bit surprising, because he almost seems like an old man.
Liesel is then brought to her new home in munich, where she meets her new foster parents rosa hubermann and hans hubermann. A story narrated by death itself, liesels journey begins when she arrives at himmel street to live with her new foster parents, hans and rosa hubermann, in molching, germany. The idea hive class is reading the book thief by, markus zusak. In the book thief, the author chooses to make the main character a child who endures unimaginable hardships, repeated loss, and, despite everything, great triumphs. I think the book is one of the great classics of contemporary literature, and though i knew i wanted to play hans after reading the script, the novel inevitably became a bible because it offers so much. Rosa hubermann, whose personality is much coarser than hans, takes liesel under her wing in her own way by having her help with her job of washing and delivering laundry for other households. It is obvious that rosa is not the nicest person around and most people do not like her, but the conflict in the family is mainly between father and son. She used bad language constantly, even to liesel and hans, but she still loved them. Rosa hubermann is the foster mother of liesel meminger. As the novel progresses, leisel grows and changes through her relationships with others like rudy, momma, papa, and max.
She has a wardrobe build and a displeased face, browngrey tightlycinched hair often tied up in a bun, and chlorinated eyes. Generous, kind, and patient, hans is immediately sympathetic, and remains that way to the end. Why do you think rosa hubermann always wanted to appear. The book thief is a historicalfiction novel it is the. In a time when one could be arrested or killed for harboring a jewish person, i think that hans and rosa hubermann s act of courage is very significant. I should hasten to admit, however, that there was a considerable hiatus between the first stolen book and the second. In my opinion, i believe that they are so different that they act as foil characters to each other.
On the other was the squat shape of rosa hubermann, who looked like a small wardrobe with a coat thrown over it. But she builds a new family with hans and rosa hubermann who treat her kindly. Liesel caught rosa in a weak moment and saw hans accordion strapped to her. Sophie nelisse and geoffrey rush the book thief female.
She is very short, with an extremely wrinkled face, and has brownygrey elastic hair often tied up in a. When she first showed up at hans and rosa hubermann s front doorstep, she was but an illiterate 11yearold with little hope. She became a motherlike figure to liesel and a loving other for hans. When rosa first meets liesel she isnt so welcoming. Once a reluctant soldier during world war i, he is a house painter and accordionist. Rosa while reading the beginning chapters of the book thief, i noticed that there were some very definite differences between liesels foster parents rosa and hans hubermann. Personally i didnt really care for her in the beginning because i didnt understand why she was being so mean to liesel when she first arrived. Rudy steiner, a boy who lives next door, accompanies her on her first day of school. This guy is a fighter in just about all the ways someone can be a fighter. Posted on november 2, 2015 november 5, 2015 by ampriolo.
Shortly after the start of world war ii, rosa makes it liesels. Her new mother is rosa hubermann, who is a tough love kind of person, she comes off as tough and hard on the outside. Unlike her husband, rosa first comes across as cold and impatient. Liesel, part 8 427 this quote shows how strong liesel was to go through all of this and how it would affect her as a person. In 1939, liesel is sent to her new home at 33 himmel street, molching. The book thief had struck for the first timethe beginning of an illustrious career. The book thief isnt a bombastic slaughterofwar pic as much as its a movie about the intimate agonies of. Although rosa was displayed as a foulmouthed, spiteful woman near the beginning of the book thief, death our narrator, slowly peels back the layers and shows the reader that rosa had a soft side and her points of weakness. Rosa hubermann rosa hubermann is a woman who is angry with the world. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Despite her temper, she is a loving wife to hans and mother to liesel. The story reveals through her treatment of liesel and. She washes and irons clothing for the wealthy people of molching. Character profile for rosa hubermann from the book thief.
Zusak, 35 rosa wasnt the nicest person, even to those she loved. The book thief why do you think rosa hubermann always wanted to appear tough and unemotional. Almost cute, if it wasnt for her face, which was like creasedup cardboard and annoyed, as if she were merely tolerating all of it zusak. At his burial, she stole her first book called, the grave diggers handbook.
But by the time were done with the novel, we realize that rosa is as lovely as. Why did rosa hubermann make an unplanned visit to liesels school. To supplement the household income, she does washing and ironing for five of the wealthier households in molching. Rosa hubermann and identity in the book thief, liesel meminger is forced into a new family when her mother gives her up.
Even rosa gave up the little security she had and sacrifice for hans, for max. Literature study guides the book thief character analysis. She would also use liesel to help her with her job. In the novel the book thief liesel experiences many difficulties in her life. Rosa hubermann is a foster mother to liesel meminger the main character.