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The next characters that I will be speaking about are Rosa & Hans Hubermann. Lets start with Rosa Hubermann who happens to be Liesel's foster mother. She has such vaguer language but has a heart of gold. In the beginning of the book Rosa appears to be a "saumensch"" (as so she would .
put it) in other words "pig girl " because of her down-right abuse with her wooden spoons and her constant scolding and criticism which happens to be her ugly side. Our judgment was harsh because she isn't the unpleasant mother we all thought she was. She loves and cares for Max Vandenberg .
(who is a Jewish 22 year old that lives in the basement of the Hubermann's). .
Her husband is distinctively the opposite. Hans Hubberman who is Liesel's .
foster father. He is extremely sweet and noble. If we saw Hans walking calmly through town, winging his paint cans and harmonica, we might not see the hero inside him. We might see just another poor man in a dreary, poor town. But there's more to Hans. Perhaps, it's his gentle humility that .
hides him from the attention of most. A flashier guy might not have been able to successfully hide a Jew in his basement during the Holocaust. Even when Hans is caught giving bread to the Jewish prisoners marching to Dachau, the authorities didn't search his house. Why? Because they can't .
imagine he would go that far. .
However, hiding a Jew in his basement showed the rebellion side of him and shows that he is not afraid of breaking the rules when it comes to his promises which indeed can be a part of his ugly side. In conclusion about both Rosa & Hans they are perfect for each other and they .
both in their odd way show that they love each other. .
Moving on to who I like to call "the flirt ", Rudy Steiner. He's a ten-year-old boy with "bony legs, sharp teeth, gangly blue eyes, and hair the color of a lemon " (p.48) who is obsessed with the track runner Jessie Owens and wants to be just like him.