When Rudy is playing with dominoes, he builds a giant tower in the center of the room, and his siblings ask if they can knock it down. He says no, telling them that they will knock it all down together. Three lines of dominoes are constructed to help knock down the center tower, and the lights are turned out in order to make the tower’s fall more entertaining and allow the “beauty of destruction” (pg. 410) to shine through. This foreshadows Rudy’s fate; giving the reader a glance into the bombing of Himmel Street (“The dominoes look like dead bodies” (pg. 410)). Whilst the children enjoy a particularly morbid game of dominoes, Alex and Barbara Steiner converse with two Nazi recruiters, who want to send Rudy to school, which, in turn, would allow him to escape his impending doom. Rudy doesn’t want to leave with them, even though he has no idea that he would be in a good place, but he still wants to prove to Franz Deutscher that he is strong and can destroy his enemies swiftly, to make them all fall like dominoes…
iesel and her family are defying Hitler by giving bread to Jewish people in the Bread Eaters, and in the Word Shaker the Word Shaker also defies Hitler. In the chapters, Liesel and Max are starting to become friends, and the Word Shaker is a gift from Max to Liesel, which shows that they are still…show more content… The story breaks with traditional forms and themes by using an unpredictable narrator (Death), experimenting with literary techniques such as metaphors and similes, but the most obvious proof that the story is postmodernist is the ending. Most books would end with a happy ending, where all the characters live happily ever after. Instead, Himmel Street is bombed and Rudy, Hans, Rosa, and many others die, showing a realistic ending that is typical of postmodern fiction
