Humanity's Brutality and Beauty

*The novel often juxtaposes (places side by side) these two things to humans to be able to have the reader read the book.

*The dying soldier in the airplane crash (brutality) was given a toy teddy bear by Rudy (beauty).

*The Death Marches (brutality) and the acts of kindness shown by Hans, Rosa and Liesel (beauty).

*Himmel St is destroyed (brutal), Rosa tells Liesel she's beautiful (beauty).

*Rosa's filthy mouth (Brutal) and love for her family and Max (Beauty).

*Max writes The Standover Man (beauty) in pages of Mein Kampf (brutal).