Q3 Outside Reading Post #4

In these next pages I read, there was more talk about the war.  The Nazi party was starting to gain more and more control.  Markus Zusak writes, "The brown-shirted extremist members of the NSDAP (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) had marched down Munich Street, their banners worn proudly, their faces held high, as if on sticks" (62).  The Nazis started parading their beliefs.  All of the supporters of the Nazi party would go and watch.  This started to help them gain more support from the people, along with all of their threats.  Zusak describes the Nazi supporters as, "People on the street stood and watched, some with straight-armed salutes, others with hands that burned from applause.  Some kept faces that were contorted by pride and rally like Frau Diller, and then there were the scatterings of odd men out, like Alex Steiner, who stood like a human-shaped block of wood, clapping slow and dutiful.  And beautiful.  Submission" (62-63).  This quote really shows all the different reactions of the supporters.  Some were enthusiastic about their support and were very emotional about how they felt about the Nazi party.  Other's who were very prideful would just stand there and admire all the people parading by.  All of these people had been brain-washed by Hitler and his ways of ruling.

In these pages, Papa found Liesel's book that she had found a long time ago at her brother's burial.  She had wet the bed and he was changing the sheets.  Zusak writes, "and when he reached under and pulled at the fabric, something loosened and landed with a thud.  A black book with silver writing on it cam hurtling out and landed on the floor, between the man's feet" (63-64).  Liesel had been hiding this book for quite some time now.  She was worried about what Papa would think and what he would say.  To no surprise, he was fine with what he found.  He did not care at all and offered to read it to her.  She was very lucky that her mother didn't find it or else she would have been in big trouble.  After they had read the book, Papa started teaching Liesel more about how to read and write.