Question 4

[Gannon]

Why do you think Max Vandenburg left the basement and where did he go?

[Dominic]

He left because he thought that he was to much to handle and that if they were to get caught by Nazis all of the would have gotten killed. He went to a concentration camp and would walk the parades on Himmel Street.

[John]

''Max and Liesel are both abandoned, Liesel by her family and Max whho had leave his family. (224''). This quote shows Max did not want to leave but was forced to by the actions of Hans. Max had to do what was best for him at that time.

[John]

Also he went wherever would be safest. 

[Nicholas]

I believe Max left because he was scared that he might get caught by the Nazis and have Hans, Rosa, and Liesel to get in trouble 

[Samuel]

I think that Max left the basement because he thought he was being too much of a nuisance in a sense to the Hubermanns. He thought that they had done enough for him by giving him a place to stay. Another reason could be that they already had close calls of him getting caught which could get the Hubermanns taken or killed by the Nazis like when the Nazis come to inspect basements for bomb shelters. It says later in the book that he was halfway to a town when he was captured and taken by the Nazis. Later Liesel say him in one of the "parades" and that is when Liesel tried talking to him and they both got beat by a whip from a Nazi solider. 

[Allison]

Max left the basement because its was a danger to keep him there. After Hans gives bread to a jew when the parade happens he becomes a suspect of a jew lover. This has Hans worried, and "thoughts of panic were caught between the in-and-out struggle of his breath (395). I think Max went to a place he knew before bad stuff started to happen. I think he went to his version of his "tree" from the book he wrote.