The Book Thief Themes

The unification of reality and narration displays the vast elaboration of humanity’s understandings and knowledge. The post-colonial criticism, against certain characters of the text, “The Book Thief” set in 1939 war periods with the power of Adolf Hitler, applies a diaspora lens upon our perceptions towards this horrific event of our history. The narrator portrayed as “Death” in the context, can be seen as a major theme in both the narration and the reality in our understanding of humanity. Adding to the idea of themes depicted in the text, the human capacity for both kindness and cruelty is also shown through the contrast between two distinct faces of human race described in the novel. This which leads to the complex and varied human experiences, which we may consider as friendship or on the other hand, the loss of a persona in the context. It is within certain texts like these in which we may be inspired to realisation referring to the vast elaboration of humanity’s existence. Eventually, we come to a full worth of recognition upon the reason for how the complexity of humanity’s existence may be emphasised as, through themes in both textual and the factual references in our human experiences. .

The theme “Death” in the context of “The Book Thief” could be considered, both …show more content…
Predominantly “Death” is constantly lingering around us, particularly in the periods of war, like the setting in the text. With the references of relation from the book’s narrator “Death” and the factual reality of death upon our daily lives, we can visualise the vast elaboration, simultaneously occurring from the unification of reality and narration upon our human