The Book Thief

The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a story about Liesel Meminger, a young girl living through the Holocaust. The story focuses on Liesel’s life story and the book that she wrote about it. Zusak provides the reader enthusiasm and anticipation to continue reading through the themes that he utilizes throughout the story. Foreshadowing, metaphors, and the beautiful, original, and creative use of language are elements that all work together to highlight the two main themes in the story.…

The use of themes, such as losing innocence and the power of words, are used in The Book Thief and in The Catcher in the Rye to better show the main character's life journey. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is a story narrated by Death, of a young girl, Liesel, and her journey through life in Germany, 1939. the author, J.D. Salinger wrote the Catcher in the Rye with Holden as the narrator. Holden is a sixteen year old boy who has been kicked out of several private schools, cuts classes whenever…

in a factual, history book-type lesson. This can be interesting and beneficial; however it leaves human emotion out of the story and with so many emotions involved refusing to convey them would only be telling part of the story. For this reason, it is important to present it in different formats. In Art Spielgelman’s novel…

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 develops the story of Liesel Meminger throughout World War II. Zusak selects a interesting and unique character for narrator: Death, and develops him as an omniscient first person narration throughout the story. The research question was selected because of this different choice of narrator and this investigation will examine the possible reasoning for Death as a narrator and overall, the effectiveness of this technique through examination of Death’s character…

The book that I will be discussing is The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. This historical fiction novel's central question is about how humans can do both the most beautiful and the most cruel of things. Therefore, this central question is, what are humans capable of? How are they capable of such great things, as well, as such horrible things? In this essay, I argue that The Book Thief has more than one important theme and all of them helped to advance the plot and influence the story. The Book…

Holocaust there was fine line of life and death become pronounced, including the Concentration Camps and the bombing that would take place in Nazi-occupied areas. Liesel is no stranger to death, in fact Death admires her. Death is the narrator in The Book Thief, he is especially interested in the Liseal. Death is aware that he has taken Liesel’s love ones, but not with ill intentions, because he sees the suffering that humanity is laid upon them and just wants to end the misery of certain…

The Death developed in The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a highly complex and dynamic character. Zusak’s Death does not fit the traditional interpretation of death, because he does not enjoy the pain humans experience. This characterization is evident through the statement the narrator, Death, makes after the deaths of countless French Jews in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Death confesses to the readers, “Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if…

Children in The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, play quite a pivotal role in the shaping of the novel as a whole; they allow for a period of travesty to come out seeming much less dramatic and much more so, somehow simultaneously. It is through the struggles these children face, it is through the love they feel, it is through the relationships they hold that exhibit a sense of almost normalcy amidst chaos, which would be a difficult task for any adult to achieve. The author and narrator focus so…

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is narrated by Death who relays 10 year-old Liesel Meminger’s story as she lives in Nazi Germany. Liesel was sent off to live with her foster parents Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann on Himmel Street when her brother died on the train there. She learns to love her Mama, Papa, her best friend Rudy, books and the delight of stealing them as she lives there. When the Hubermanns hide a Jew in their basement, Liesel discovers brilliant and terrible things about life in…