Tayla Cahoon
The Book Thief August 2, 2017
The Book Thief
It is 1939. Nazi’s have taken over Germany. Everyone is holding their breath except for Death. In the novel The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak;“Death narrates the life story of Liesel Meminger all while being busier than ever. In this breathtaking piece of fiction, Zusak exemplifies power, change and connections. He portrays power by showing how Adolf Hitler forced many Jewish men and women to either face death or play a nerve racking game of hide and seek. Change is shown at multiple points in the book but the biggest change is expressed within the narrator; Death. Death is originally sardonic, and has a dark dry sense of humor, but as the novel proceeds and World War II gets to it’s boiling point, Death reveals weariness and remorse about having to collect so …show more content…
Adolf Hitler was an anti-semitic idealist, who was completely utterly insane. He was a great orator, but his ideals of what was right for Germany were far off. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, he exemplifies the four themes of social studies but mostly focuses on power, change and connections. Power is displayed in a quote from a passage from the novel “They watched the Jews come down the road like a catalog of colors. That wasn't how the book thief described them, but I can tell you that that's exactly what they were, for many of them would die...The suffering faces of depleted man and women reached across to them, pleading not so much for help - they were beyond that - but for an explanation. Just something to subdue this confusion. (391-392)” Hundreds of Jewish men, women and children were being marched to their death. No one could help them. If anyone even tried to say a word to a Jew they would either be killed or Hitler would make you work for him. No one wanted to risk their lives. Hitler was creating a master race. The more power Hitler got the easier it was for him to kill and control the people of
The Book Thief August 2, 2017
The Book Thief
It is 1939. Nazi’s have taken over Germany. Everyone is holding their breath except for Death. In the novel The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak;“Death narrates the life story of Liesel Meminger all while being busier than ever. In this breathtaking piece of fiction, Zusak exemplifies power, change and connections. He portrays power by showing how Adolf Hitler forced many Jewish men and women to either face death or play a nerve racking game of hide and seek. Change is shown at multiple points in the book but the biggest change is expressed within the narrator; Death. Death is originally sardonic, and has a dark dry sense of humor, but as the novel proceeds and World War II gets to it’s boiling point, Death reveals weariness and remorse about having to collect so …show more content…
Adolf Hitler was an anti-semitic idealist, who was completely utterly insane. He was a great orator, but his ideals of what was right for Germany were far off. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, he exemplifies the four themes of social studies but mostly focuses on power, change and connections. Power is displayed in a quote from a passage from the novel “They watched the Jews come down the road like a catalog of colors. That wasn't how the book thief described them, but I can tell you that that's exactly what they were, for many of them would die...The suffering faces of depleted man and women reached across to them, pleading not so much for help - they were beyond that - but for an explanation. Just something to subdue this confusion. (391-392)” Hundreds of Jewish men, women and children were being marched to their death. No one could help them. If anyone even tried to say a word to a Jew they would either be killed or Hitler would make you work for him. No one wanted to risk their lives. Hitler was creating a master race. The more power Hitler got the easier it was for him to kill and control the people of