The longest three mintues.

 

One day Liesel was playing soccer outside when she noticed a group of Nazi leaders going from house to house.  Rudy informed Liesel that the Nazis need more air-raid shelters and that they were going to check everyone's basements.  Liesel was terrifyed and knew she had to warn her family immediately. So next, she faked an accident which caused her to have a bloody leg.  "Again, she had to think, and again, she was able. With Rudy holding her up, she made herself drop once more to the ground, on her back.  "My papa," she said. The sky, she noticed was utterly blue.  Not even the suggestion of a cloud.  "Could you get him Rudy?"(Zusak 341).  Rudy ran to get papa who came and took her back to the house.

When Liesel got home she warned everyone that the Nazis were visiting all the houses to decide whose basements would serve as bomb shelters.  The longest three minutes in Hubberman history were when the Nazis came to their home and inspected their basement.  "Papa sat at the table.  Rosa prayed in the corner, mouthing the words.  Liesel was cooked: her knee, her chest, the muscles in her arms.  I doubt any of them had the audacity to consider what they'd do if the basement was appointed as a shelter.  They had to survive the inspection first"(Zusak 344).  The Hubbermans were terrified that the Nazis would find Max hiding in the basement.  Luckily, Max hid behind the stairway the whole time until the Nazis realized the basement didn't meet their requirements. 

 A scary time in my life was when I got sent to the YESS shelter for my first time.  I didn't want to be there at all and I didn't know anyone there.  I had to act bravely because I was set to be there for a week whether I liked it or not.  I had no choice because if I was to run away from there, they would call the cops on me. Luckily I made it through the week and at the end I was so happy to finally be home and see my family and friends.

Work Cited:

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Print.

Sketches

"The idea was to write about everything that had happened to him-all that had led him to a Himmel Street basement-but it was not what came out.  Max's exile produced something else entirely.  It was a collection of random thoughts and he chose to embrace them. They felt true"(Zusak 277).  In Max's life story, he writes about Hitler and what the role of Hitler is.  In the first picture Max draws, it is picture of the Germans praising Hitler.  In the second picture he draws, it is a picture of a man and a girl standing on top of a bunch of dead people.  The significance of the pictures are that all Germans are for what Hitler does including killing Jews.  I think Liesel gets frightened because she doesn't know that Hitler kills Jews until she sees the picture that Max draws.  "Frightened by what she saw, Liesel placed the book back down, exactly as she found it, against Max's leg"(Zusak 281).

My Life Story.

For two whole years I've been wanting this more than anything; to be a mom.  I've tried and tried and never succeeded.  Then a miracle happened.  Two years went by and at the age of 16 it happened.  I looked down and the test said positive.  I was jumping for joy.  That wasn't the only exciting thing that happened.  A couple months later the nurse told me, "congratulations, you're having a baby boy!"  I was the happiest girl on earth.

Work Cited:

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Print.