Question: How does one find beauty in times of hardships

Source: the Book Thief

 

In the movie, The Book Thief directed by Brian Percival, beauty and perseverance are used in hard times during the Holocaust. Wonder and happiness are found through literature and words despite the horrible conditions. Liesel was taken from her family and sent to live with foster parents, only because her mother was a communist. Liesel finds beauty in the most simplistic things. During the end of the movie Death says, “Sometimes people are beautiful not in looks, not in what they say but in who they are”. Despite how people look or say there are still good people in the world even if it is filled with hate there are always good people somewhere they just may be hidden or afraid. In one scene, Liesel was with her friend Max, a Jewish man who was staying with Liesel and her adoptive parents. Max missed the world outside the walls of the damp dark basement so Liesel brought the cold satin snow from the street outside into the basement. This is an example of Liesel finding astonishment in something as simple and dainty as snow. In another scene Liesel’s father said, “Words are life” he is meaning that words can be beautiful and are all around us and beauty can be found in almost anything. Liesel is very courageous and compassionate and pushes through hardships and struggles. She will go to any length to make those she cares for happy and always prevail friendship and love.

 

Citations: Allen, Alyssa. “The storyteller behind The Book Thief.” ABC Melbourne – Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 12 Jan. 2014, www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2014/01/13/3924548.htm.

“The Book Thief.” Pinterest, www.pinterest.ca/MegaFrost4/the-book-thief

I did great on using proper punctuation and commas.

 

Next time, I will improve by staying on topic and not jumping to different things that are irrelevant to what I am writing about.