Markus Zusak

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak “received many awards for .., including the Michael L. Printz Honor and the Kathleen Mitchell Award(Australia).”(“Markus”). Which are awarded for excellence in young adult literature. The Book Thief most definitely deserves these awards as its ability to combine fact and fiction is truly remarkable. Markus Zusak takes his own imagination, and his life experiences and turns them into an outstanding novel. Zusak takes the facts and events of World War II, his…

youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw vision of the whistler running from the crime scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the worlds-their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on (Zusak 381). This quote was taken from the part of the story where the whole town was in a bomb shelter during the second bombing of Himmel Street. It was chaotic; people were crying, screaming, and crushing. During the wait, Liesel starts to read…

In both The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Sold by Patricia McCormick, there is a common theme of loss of innocence. Both main characters, Liesel Meminger and Lakshmi, experience great change throughout their novels. Both make the transformation from young girls to matured women. Although they would still be legally considered children at the end of their novels, the two girls have gone through more than many adults have ever experienced. When Liesel Meminger went to live with the Hubermanns,…

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, is a powerful written story about Liesel Memiger who lives with a foster family during World War 2. Through the course of the book, you meet new characters and watch them and Liesel grow, learn and thrive through the power of words. The importance of words in The Book Thief has a great impact on characters connections, without words none of the characters would thrive and learn about the world, for example when Liesel has her nightmares, Hans connects with her…

power of words and death .These themes perfectly demonstrate Liesel because she is a new citizen in Germany with an incomplete understanding of her surrounding due to the fact that she just recently lost her mother and father. Markus Zusak easily used death against Liesel. Markus brought together every part of Liesel’s life into one idea that is the theme of death. Death became imminent for Liesel from the time her foster parents and her brother died to the time Ilsa Herman, Frau Holtzapfel and…

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is filled with conflicts within most the characters. As a result, there is only one distinct character to blame, Death. Most readers can detect a scene or part in the book that revolves around internal and external conflicts. The main characters have all encountered the feeling of conflict, but the main characters count for Liesel Meminger and Alex Steiner. Liesel Meminger deals with internal conflict throughout the book. She has to dealt with people calling her…

have performed some kind of service for someone else. In the novel I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, the main character Ed Kennedy shows the traits of intelligence, compassion and bravery when he tries to do kind things for others in an attempt to make his life feel more fulfilled. Intelligence is a highly valued…

book to have a third person and a first person point of view. However, because the the point of view keeps interchanging throughout the book, it allows the book to be more interesting. Markus Zusak needed a narrator who would give “snapshots” of the war outside of Himmel Street. Which could be a reason as to of why Zusak choose to use death as the narrator. Death tells the story throughout the third person limited, which lets us somewhat connect to death.…

two characters In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a German girl named Liesel Meminger is sent to live with her new foster parents Rosa and Hans Hubermann on Himmel Street. The personalities of her two new guardians are very distinct. Rosa Hubermann is shown to be a strict, harsh woman who enjoys swearing. She is described as having “a face decorated with constant fury. That was how the creases were made in the cardboard texture of her complexion” (Zusak 33). She is known for having…

Markus Zusak has not really written "Harry Potter and the Holocaust." It just feels that way. "The Book Thief" is perched on the cusp between grown-up and young-adult fiction, and it is loaded with librarian appeal. It deplores human misery. It celebrates the power of language. It may encourage adolescents to read. It has an element of the fanciful. And it's a book that bestows a self-congratulatory glow upon anyone willing to grapple with it. "The Book Thief" resembles other, better novels…