• Book Journal 1 prompt: What is happening with the plot of your story? Has the author used foreshadowing so you were able to predict the next events or have you been surprised?
The Book Thief book journal one:
The Book Thief is set in the time of the Second World War, when the Nazi party occupied Germany. This creates some tension with the people in the story that are against the Nazis and the people that support the Nazi party. This affects Liesel because a Jew might to come to her house and that could be a struggle for her family, because her family is poor. They are also more stressed for money because some of the people who they do laundry for are no longer paying to have their laundry done. Liesel has also just stolen her second book, …show more content…
The book seems to be written after all the events happen, so quite a few of the events have exposition. Unlike The Hobbit, which is also written after the events take place, there is not nearly as much exposition because there is not a narrator. In The Book Thief, the narrator plays a major part, so there is a lot of exposition. In most of the events where there is exposition, you are told what will happen only a bit before the event. However, for some major events, you are told what will happen a lot beforehand. One example of this is at the beginning of the book, where it tells you how many books Liesel has stolen, and that some of the books were written by a Jew that they were keeping hidden from the Nazis. Another example of this is Liesel stealing her second book. At the beginning of the book, it says that the second book was stolen from fire. In the book, before the event, it says “A book would be stolen.” Then, a book is stolen from a pile of stuff that was on fire. I also know that there will be air strikes later in the books, and that Liesel’s basement isn’t deep enough to protect them. That is another example of exposition. One event that seems to be foreshadowed, is when the mayor’s wife, Ilsa, saw her steal her second book, and you think she will get Liesel in trouble. You might think Ilsa will get Liesel in trouble because in the book it says that Ilsa is waiting until the right moment. She then shows
The Book Thief book journal one:
The Book Thief is set in the time of the Second World War, when the Nazi party occupied Germany. This creates some tension with the people in the story that are against the Nazis and the people that support the Nazi party. This affects Liesel because a Jew might to come to her house and that could be a struggle for her family, because her family is poor. They are also more stressed for money because some of the people who they do laundry for are no longer paying to have their laundry done. Liesel has also just stolen her second book, …show more content…
The book seems to be written after all the events happen, so quite a few of the events have exposition. Unlike The Hobbit, which is also written after the events take place, there is not nearly as much exposition because there is not a narrator. In The Book Thief, the narrator plays a major part, so there is a lot of exposition. In most of the events where there is exposition, you are told what will happen only a bit before the event. However, for some major events, you are told what will happen a lot beforehand. One example of this is at the beginning of the book, where it tells you how many books Liesel has stolen, and that some of the books were written by a Jew that they were keeping hidden from the Nazis. Another example of this is Liesel stealing her second book. At the beginning of the book, it says that the second book was stolen from fire. In the book, before the event, it says “A book would be stolen.” Then, a book is stolen from a pile of stuff that was on fire. I also know that there will be air strikes later in the books, and that Liesel’s basement isn’t deep enough to protect them. That is another example of exposition. One event that seems to be foreshadowed, is when the mayor’s wife, Ilsa, saw her steal her second book, and you think she will get Liesel in trouble. You might think Ilsa will get Liesel in trouble because in the book it says that Ilsa is waiting until the right moment. She then shows