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Choose THREE of the following literature response questions to answer. Each response should be in a well-developed paragraph of at least seven sentences. When posting your response, include the number of the question you are answering in your topic line.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What is the effect of having Death serve as the narrator?

2. What is the significance of colors in the book?

3. Rosa is described as "her face was decorated with constant fury." (p. 33)

4. What made Rosa so angry?

5. How was Hans "worth a lot." ? (p. 34) 6. How would the story have been different if Liesel didn't keep having nightmares about her brother? 7. Why was Rosa a good woman for a crisis?

8. Who is your favorite character? Why?

9. In the book there are many, many instances of courage. If you can, choose which act (and by whom) best illustrates courage?

10. In the novel, words have the power to both destroy and save lives. Discuss.

11. How did the key come to be in Max's copy of MEIN KAMPF?

12. Do Max and Liesel end up together? (I think they did, because... "In her final visions, she saw her three children, her grandchildren, her husband, and the long list of lives that merged with hers. Among them, lit like lanterns, were Hans and Rosa Hubermann, her brother, and the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever." If Max hadn't already been mentioned (her husband?), she would have mentioned him as one of the lives lit like lanterns.)

=Bibliography= Nebraska Library Commission. "The Book Thief Discussion Questions." 2008. //http://nlc.nebraska.gov/youth/obok/2008/discussionquestionsbookthief.pdf.// pdf. 16 July 2012.