The human race is the only species on earth capable of using language to such an advanced degree. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the idea of words being used as a weapon is expanded on. The novel takes place in 1943, during the Holocaust, and spends a lot of time detailing how Hitler was able to do what he did through the power of his words. He knew how to speak and used that to his advantage. This is a good example of how words have the power to control the world and warp perspectives and establishes how word can be used as a hammer to build something incredible, or as a sword and shield to break something down. The Book Thief spends a length of its time detailing how Hitler and the Nazis were able to use their words to build something
