Though the novel titled The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and the passage from “Auschwitz Shifts from Memorializing to Teaching” by Michael Kimmelman, are two very different styles of writing, but can be compared together in many ways. For example, The Book Thief is a novel written from the point of view of Death and the main character is a young German girl, while the passage from “Auschwitz Shifts from Memorializing to Teaching” is educational. Both The Book Thief and “Auschwitz Shifts from Memorializing to Teaching” are ways young teenagers can learn about how the Holocaust affected not only the Jews, but the German children and German parents who lost their kids due to war. In novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Zusak says, “I’m compelled
