A film review (EOI)

The film "The Book Thief" is based on the book by Markus Zusak. The film was directed by Brian Percival. It stars Sophie Nélisse as Liesel Meminger and Nico Liersch as Rudy Steiner, her best friend. The film and the book won eleven Oscars in 2006, 2007 and 2009 for Best Book, Best Film of the year and Best Screenplay.
This film is set in Alemania in the 1939s and 45s and it was filmed on location in Alemania and in USA.
The film is about a nine-year-old German girl called Liesel who was given up by her mother to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in a small town of Molching, before the World War II. On their way to Molching, Liesel's young brother died and she was traumatized but, Hans brings her comfort and helps her learn to read, starting with a book Liesel took from the cementery where her brother was buried. On her life in Molching, she befriends a neighborhood boy called Rudy, who falls in love with her; and goes every day to the mayor's wife, Ilsa Hermann, library to read her books. Later, she protects a boy called Max, who was persecuted, and they became close friends. But, when Hans publicly gives bread to an old man being sent to a concentration camp, Max must leave and Hans is drafted into the military. A few days later, the war started and only Liesel and Max survives. She went on to live a long life and died at an old age.
I really recommend "The Book Thief". It has action, romantic and also sad moments, and an important message of the narrator, which is the Death: "Death will come to us all". The film doesn't have sequels but the book is also good too.

Women's rights

According to some people, men has always been superior to women because they are stronger, more intelligent and more serious than womem. However, that is not true because other people think that women are more superior than men.

Along history, it seems to me that women has always had a lot of difficulties because they didn't have nearly any rights. While Middle Age, women only had two housetasks: cleaning the house and look after the child.

But the most important moment for women was during the Workers Revolution, when women went on strike to rearch more rights, like voting or working in other works. Stands out women like Rosa Luxemburgo and Marie Wollstonecraft.

In conclusion, I think that women have to be similar as men because both are humans and they should have the same rights, opportunities and works.

Biography

A famous person that I greatly admire is Rumiko Takahashi, who was born on 10 October 1957 in Niigara (Japan).
At first, she was interested in chemistry so she went to the university in Japan. During that period of time, she love drawing characters of books in her free time and one day her father, who is the director of an editorial company, convince her daughter doing the cover of his magazines. As soon as the magazines were released, she became very popular.
Later, she created a company of "mangakas" named "Rumic World" which works with books called "manga". Her most important book is "Ranma 1/2", which tells about a boy called Ranma, who is cursed, and he has to get marry with Akane, an aggressive girl. Like most other "mangakas", Rumiko went to another university to learn the "Chibby" tecnique, which is essencial for writting mangas.
What I admire most about Rumiko is that she is very creative and her ideas are very original. Thanks to that, she is now the most famous "mangaka" in Japan and also, her most important book "Ranma 1/2" has a TV series, which I love a lot. I hope that she continues doing more spectacular mangas because they make me laugh a lot!

Gabriela Higuera 1G