Answer:
The social costs of cellphone usage can be defined as a depreciation of social interactions.
Explanation:
Cellphones were invented in 1973 by Martin Cooper and they were designed with the purpose of offering a mobile way to communicate with others erasing the limitations that phones offered at that time.
However, today we are facing an era in which cellphones have gone way beyond the point of being just a portable device for phone calls. Social networks, cellphone gaming, chats, photographs, and all kind of apps with different services are just a glimpse of what cellphones offer now, making society somehow dependent on the device itself. Which unfortunately has led to less use of face to face communication, building some sort of barriers in which emotions and true meaning are easily disguised because is safer to simply express ourselves behind a cellphone, that is why society face bigger issues related to bullying and cyber bullying. People no longer truly know each other, simply replacing emotions with emojis and ideas with memes leading us to no longer understanding each other and what is worse, not caring about it.
The loss of innocence is represented by the character of Liesel who was forced into a more mature and adult role by each tragedy she overcame. However, because of her loss of innocence, is that she found a lifelong friend in Max, the Jewish boy who was hiding in her house. For this reason we can say that Zusak's message is that even though the tragedies of life might take our innocence away, we can overcome and empathize with other people.
Quotes:
"Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness"
" Even death has a heart"
"A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children"
