I went into the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak knowing it was centered around the Holocaust, but not really knowing what the plot was. I was surprised to discovered it was based around a young German girl’s experience with hiding a Jew in her basement. Usually, stories about the Holocaust are centered around the Jewish people and their struggles to survive. However, in this story, the main character was a young girl on the outside of the hate and harsh treatment. While at the same time, showing how the Jewish people were treated in her family’s efforts to hide a Jewish man in from the Nazis. Reading this novel gave me a different perspective to such a historical time period and portrayed a different mood than most novels centered around
