Power Demonstrative In The Book Thief

An individual is powerless against the larger power of society, ultimately it is something they will succumb to and face. In The Book Thief the story follows Liesel and her life in Nazi Germany as she encounters several victims and abusers of power. The poem The next war is a soldiers poem during describing his experience with death and fatality. Finally in an interview The Sins of the Father is both an interview that gives us insight into the psyche and trauma of Martin Burnham. Power demonstrative in the texts through a series of techniques that reflect the victims and users of power.
The text ‘The Book Thief’, demonstrates power can either create fear or ignorance to the cause. Hans Jnr the son of Hans Hubermann is under the heavy influence of the Nazi party and sticks strongly by their belief of a complete Nazi regime that would cleanse the country. The personification in “it’s pathetic – how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage as it makes itself great again” is …show more content…
Death is a figure that watches over all aspects of human life astonished and disgusted by their wastefulness and kindness. He describes war as pointless and needless, he sees men running blindly to their death completely unaware of what they were running at. The tone in “who think they’re running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.” Dictates his rather apathetic feelings towards war and needless process of collecting souls. He sees his responsibility as burden and describes it in a depressing manor. His burden is represented in “I am haunted by humans” due to the fact that he will forever be an observer and response to human ends. Death is no more only able to judge humans and not interact. He is cursed with seeing them commit atrocities and they are cursed with him looming over them, watching vigilantly to collect the next