Disclaimer: I don't own The Book Thief, nor do I own the quote that came from the movie I Never Sang for My Father. They go to the respectful owners.
This is either titled: The Eulogy that Rudy Never Had
Or much preferably: Death Ends a Life
Death was right about a lot of things.
He was right: Rudy Steiner didn't deserve to die the way he did.
There really had been something magical about Rudy.
It be, His lemon colored hair. Those radiant blue eyes. That kept innocence about him...
Even if he had to have hardened in personality. I think there still would've been that magic left in him. No matter WHAT, I really do believe that.
You see, Rudy Steiner was the kind of person you woke up thinking about when you knew you were to live through a day of turmoil.
Rudy Steiner was the type of person an unhappy, gray, colorless, and grumpy person would ridicule just because of the boy's inner sparkle.
Rudy was the dawn of day.
He was the light in a dark room.
He was the angel that never wept.
Why, he was a child of God.
Rudy was a natural born gentlemen who was clueless among disrespect. He was perhaps ill headed at times but that was yet his biggest flaw.
He chose Jesse Owens as a role model that was deeply frowned upon, but maybe he saw the man's bravery and success, not the things people deemed to point out.
Rudy was good at waiting, even though he had impatience. That great skill of waiting proved when he finally got that kiss from Liesel that he'd been hoping for in a lifetime. Even if he hadn't been alive when he'd gotten that kiss–his soul was to have possibly felt it. Death only knows.
His laughter was memorable. That smile of his was too.
Rudy was a good athlete. He loved to prove his worthiness in sports. But his worthiness was whole-heartedly proven when he had to rescue Liesel's book. Hadn't it been The Whistler? A book she had "stolen."
Man, is there much more I can say about the Saumensch? Um, he was memorable. I don't even think he tried really hard to be memorable. I think there was a humility about him as well. Despite him have wanted the need of attention many times...Still,
Rudy was something the world never deserved to have like Liesel would've put it.
Sadly though, it had been Rudy's time to come, and Death apparently knew that. And even if he were to still have lived I know very well his hair wouldn't have stayed the colour of lemons nor would he have stayed young and innocent forever.
Forget about the magic...Rudy was destined to stay his age forever.
In Heaven that is.
He already heard Liesel's thanks many times, he'd felt her mental kisses. He grew to know his success. The little guy knew how and when to play his part.
Wether it had been pushing Liesel or being a companion, he said the right lines especially when he was to have given the Book Thief her name. He was the stand-out character in places like Max's illustrated book.
Rudy was the epitome of life.
Four people had wept for him: Liesel, His Father, Death, and the person who wrote this.
"Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find."
Quote from: I Never Sang For My Father, 1971
Author's Note: I wrote this because I thought this quote fit things about Rudy, and about death. Thanks to whomever adds their regards, or reviews.