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Characters Within ¨The Book Thief¨
- Hans
Hubermann
- Cares about all
other humans, no
matter what the
believe
- Black
- Jewish
- White
- Christian
- Loves
Liesel like
his own
daughter
- Reads to her
- Teaches her
how to read
on her own
- Stays up
late at night
with her
- Plays the
accordion
for her
- Risks his
own life so
that he can
help other
people
- Fights in and
survives both
WWI and
WWII
- He knows
how to
comfort
people when
they are
feeling scared
- Rosa
Hubermann
- Likes to call
people a
¨saukrel¨
- Comes off as
being very
harsh towards
other people
- I think that she has a
very soft side because
of the way she held
Liesel and sang to her
in the bomb shelter
- She also cares
about other
people
- She is not as public about caring
for people such as the Jews and
Hans is
- She washes and irons
peoples clothes in the
neighborhood for pay
- This job does not pay
very much hence the
reason why the
Hubermanns are
poor
- Liesel
Meminger
- She is the
foster child of
Rosa and Hans
Hubermann
- Her parents were
taken away by the
Nazis and her
brother died on the
train when they
were on their way to
Munich
- Best friends
with Rudy
Steiner
- Loves to read
book and
sometimes
she has to
steal them
- She stole many
books from many
different people with
a little help from
Rudy
- She also read to the people in
the bomb shelter so that they
would not be scared of the air
raid
- Rudy
Steiner
- He is obsessed
with Jesse Owens
- He even made himself look
like a black man and ran
around the local track
- Best friends
with Liesel
- He is constantly
asking her to
kiss him and
she won't do it
- The Nazis want
to take him
away so that
they can train
him to be a
soldier
- He had the
highest scores
out of everyone
in his Hitler
Youth division
- Max
Vandenburg
- He is a Jew
hiding out in
the
Hubermann's
basement
- His father was
the man that
saved Hans' life
during WWI
- He is very small
because he hasn't
been able to eat
much
- He gets very sick
because of how
cold it was in the
basement
- Liesel blames herself for
this because she was the
one who brought the
snow into the basrment
- His stomach
can't digest a lot
of food because
of how
malnourished he
was