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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Located in a small suburb of Germany during the Second World War, this novel is narrated by La Muerte, who tells us the story of Liesel, a little orphan who has a strange fascination with the written word and begins to steal books during one of the most turbulent times in history. Arrancamos con otro episodio de Bibliotequeando.
Como siempre, les habla su anfitrión, Ricardo Lugo, arroba Bibliotequeando en las redes. Sigan compartiendo la cuenta, dando like, siguiendo, promoviendo el podcast 5 estrellas para seguir mejorando nuestro conocimiento y cultura a través de los libros.
También se pueden suscribir al blog de Bibliotequeando, donde yo escribo distintos artículos sobre distintos temas de los libros que hacemos en el podcast y otros que no forman parte de esta lista. El link lo encuentran en la descripción de este podcast o en el link de las cuentas de las redes sociales.
Today I bring you a very interesting book, one of my favorites that I read already in my youth, a little teenager. I read it again for the purpose of this summary. It is a little sad book. Obviously all books based during the Holocaust and the Second World War in Germany do not usually have such a happy ending.
But I thought it was a very interesting book because almost all of these books, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Catastrophe of Hitler, all of these books of historical fiction, they usually talk about kindness, cruelty, death, etc. But this is a book that talks about the power of words, how Hitler...
It doesn't focus so much on Hitler, but it shows through the history of the people who lived at that time how the power of words is so impactful on the human being. And I think that's why the author decides that the book is not narrated by the characters, it is not narrated by a human being, it is narrated by the angel of death, this being that does not exist, an abstract, impartial person.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Liesel's relationship with words in 'La Ladrona de Libros'?
Y esta familia adoptiva es Hans y Rosa Huberman. Y Liesel entra a esta casa con el libro todavía robado en el bolsillo. So this little nine-year-old girl has to live a new life. Her mother basically abandons her and stays with two strangers she doesn't know, Hans and Rosa Huberman.
Lisa begins to have many nightmares in this house, not so much for the family, but well, she just witnessed her brother die of natural causes. And her father, her new father, enters the room at 2 in the morning to comfort her. And this starts to show a little how Hans Huberman is like one of the good guys in the movie. He is a very kind, very kind man.
He understands everything very well about what is going on with Liesel. And he always seeks to comfort her. He knows that it is not easy to live with a family that is not your family. And she is quite grateful for this. She appreciates his kindness. At the same time, Or rather, on the opposite side, Rosa Huberman, Hans' wife, her new mom,
She doesn't do anything but criticize her husband, she criticizes the neighbors, she criticizes the rich of the block, she criticizes the government, she criticizes everything, the only thing she does is criticize. The government also criticizes her in this case, but she is an extremely conflictive woman.
And she hates her own clients because her clients are the rich and she is a woman who has a washing and ironing business. Basically, she was looking for clothes for people in the houses, she washed them, ironed them and returned them. So Liesel, at this point in the story, begins to realize that he has a new family. But I don't like or I don't like my new mom very much.
He begins to miss, of course, his old mom. She started in the routine of helping Rosa, her new mother, in the house chores, she started going to school, and she started attending the meetings of the Hitlerian youth. For those who don't know, this group of Hitlerian youth were basically Hitler among the thousands of things he did. socialized, to a certain extent, education.
All education went through the government and there was a specific group that supported Hitler and they were the youth. And like any dictator, and at this level even more, it is better to wash the brains of young people. So it was a group that was super pro-Hitler and super defend the homeland and the movement and the government, etc.
Very curiously, a little pause here in history, the Hitlerian youth was the last group that was always supporting Hitler until the end, until after he died, that the statement came out that he was bombed and killed in the bunker. The Italian youth still thought that he was alive, that he was their leader, etc.
So that they could see the mental power, or let's say the amount of laundry and quality of laundry. That was something that the Nazi government used with these young people. And this was mandatory, because it was not an option, you had to do it through schools. The point is that we are seeing a Liesel that is beginning to realize the world he is living in.
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Chapter 3: How is the story of Liesel introduced by the Angel of Death?
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So Max starts his train to Munich, scared, with a copy of Menkaf, also the same book in his hand, to show his supposed loyalty to the Nazi cause in case he gets into trouble. He is very afraid that someone will recognize him, that they will see his physical actions that were Jewish or that he had false identity documents.
But the message here in that passage, let's say in the book, is the fact that he carries Hitler's book, how the words have a power of meaning something and how all these words made people commit this horrible crime. Now he arrives the house of the Hubermans and death tells us now why Hans Huberman is helping a Jew that he does not even know.
Death explains to us that Hans during the First World War was one of the soldiers who fought for Germany and in that war he had a friend in the army named Eric who was a Jew. In that war, Eric and Hans became very good friends. In fact, Eric taught Hans to play the accordion, Hans taught him to read, write, etc.
And Eric told a superior officer that Hans was an excellent author, so to speak, that he had very good calligraphy, that it would be very good if he could do something in that respect. So the boss, so to speak, the officer, took Hans from the battle. He was no longer fighting with the other soldiers, but he was in the offices writing letters about what was happening.
When he started writing letters, his battalion was bombed and everyone was killed, except for the people who were, let's say, in the office that was away from the war zone. So he always felt that he owed his life to Eric because Eric lost his life so that he could save himself.
Since that day, Hans contacted the widow, who at that time was the wife of Eric Vandenberg, the Jewish friend, and promised him that if one day they needed help, please let them know. That day was today. That day was Hitler, Nazism, and the woman needed to protect her son and wanted a German family to be able to take care of him and receive him in his basement.
And that's how Max, the Jew, arrives exhausted to the kitchen of the Hubermans in November 1940, when the war has been going on for a little over a year. Rosa, despite being a bit of a bad person in the movie,
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Liesel face after being adopted by the Hubermans?
When Hans arrives at that river, there is nothing more than a note stuck to a tree that says, you have already done enough. Max mentally divorces from the Huberman family and knows that they did a lot for him and decides to continue on his path. Liesel of course is very sad, she is devastated, she remains with the memory through the books, very similar to what happened to her brother.
who at that time was left with the manual book of sepulchers, now she is with the books that Max gave her, the books that she read to Max and that is the only way to stay connected with him. Hans, during all this time, is very tense, because he says that the Gestapo will come to find him at any time, that I am a stupid, Y amable.
Esa frase muy famosa en el libro de Hans dice soy estúpido y amable y eso me convierte en el idiota más grande del mundo. Un mensaje de que ser buena gente en esta época no te mantenía vivo. When Hans sees two men with dark coats, basically with the Nazi uniform at his house, he thinks they are going to come and look for him.
But in truth they were looking for the house next door because they came to look for Rudy. And Rudy has no idea what's going on. He was in his kitchen, he was playing domino with his brothers and he realizes that he is knocking on the door of his house. What is happening is that the Nazis realized that Rudi is a boy, but a man who represents the values of the Aryan race.
Rudi is very athletic, he runs very fast, he is in the Hitlerian youth too because his father put him there. And they basically want to recruit him for a special school that will take care of the future of the party. His parents strongly deny it, but this, of course, brings negative repercussions to the family because they are not supporting the movement. at a very key point of the war.
As the days go by, both Rudy's father and Hans receive the same letter. Both have been officially enrolled in the Nazi party and now have to help the party during this whole war. This is basically the punishment that the Nazis give him. Out of all the possibilities, they were cheap in Rudy's father's case for having avoided that his son was enrolled in this special school of the future Nazi.
And in the case of Hans, they punish him for having given that piece of bread to the Jew walking here. Now, luckily for both, neither of them are thrown into the war as such. Rudy's father is put to repair uniforms because he was a sastre. And Hans is put to patrol the anti-air zone.
Basically, he has to go through the areas that have been bombed to repair structures, rescue survivors, recover corpses, etc. These are very dark, very somber duties. Since he now has to witness the anguish of the people who are looking for their children, their parents, their relatives who have been bombed.
And he now really sees the damage of the war because he begins to have survivors dying in his arms. We are again in almost the year 43, the end of 42, remember that the Second World War ended in 45, so we are a little more than half of the war and there is another parade of prisoners from the concentration camp through the street where Lee Hans lives.
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