Question:  How does one find hope in times of hardship?

In the movie The Book Thief directed by Brian Percival, a German girl named Liesel finds solace in reading books during the horrors of WWII in Germany. For Liesel, she finds comfort in words whether she was reading or writing, and distracting herself. When the character Max gave her a book and said, “… ‘Write’…A word. Words are life, Liesel. All those blank pages… they’re for you to fill.” (Percival, The Book Thief) after this Liesel learned how important it is to express yourself, no matter your situation. Even in the most sorrowful of situations, you can still find comfort and hope to keep going. Liesel, at the beginning of the movie, still had lots of hope with the absence of her mother, the loss of her brother and fear of her new city. The narrator, Death, stated that, “I wanted to tell the book thief she was one of the few souls… that made me wonder what it was to live.” (Percival, The Book Thief) implying that Liesel’s hope is her greatest strength while her life was crumbling around her. In The Book Thief, Percival shows how one find hope in times of despair with stories that gave the character sense of wonder and happiness.

I did great on the organization of the paragraph.

Next time, I’ll work on writing more formally and to explain my reasoning of the answer better.

Source: The Book Thief

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