Summer Reading Entry One

For my summer reading project I am reading The Book Thief by the author Markus Zusak. It is about the story of a girl named Liesel Meminger, who had her family ripped from her at a young age. She was moved into the care of her new foster parents, Hans Hubbermann and Rosa Hubbermann. Hans Hubbermann is an extremely kind fellow who would go out of his way to make another persons day. He is a painter and plays the piano accordion in the local inns and bars around town in the winter to supplement income over the winter. Rosa Hubbermann is the poler opposite of her husband, being mean and shrude towards almost anyone she meets. She believes the world revolves around her and that she is privileged. Some other characters include the residents of Himmel Street. The book describes them as such, " Rudy Steiner- The boy next door who was obsessed with the black American athlete Jesse Owens.Frau Diller - the staunch Aryan corner-shop owner.Tommy Müller - a kid whose chronic ear infections had resulted in several operations, a pink river of skin painted across his face, and a tendency to twitch.A man known primarily as "Pfiffikus" - whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubbermann look like a wordsmith and a saint." - Markus Zusak.
The setting of The Book Thief is the rise and fall of Hitler (1933-1945) and is located in a small town near Münich. It is a very dark setting, seeing how Liesel is torn away from her family and put with a foster family that makes her life a misery. My predictions for the book are that Liesel will start to buck up against Rosa and that both Hans and Rosa will be drafted into the war( this was hinted to in a earlier quote in the book). There has been a movie made about this book, but I have not seen it., although I can see the connections an thought that went into including the characters into 1930's-40's Germany as Liesel is placed into the Hitler Youth program.