There are many books recalling the devastation of WWII, but none of them recall it from the perspective of death. This is one of the main reasons that make this book so unique and also why I would recommend it to everyone.
To begin, Markus Zusak personified “death” by giving it a sense of curiosity and a combination of dark and funny personalities. Who would ever turn down a book that is narrated by death? Many of the books on WWII are all written by the perspectives of the people that lived through it, but none are based on the perspective of someone who would have seen everything. In the book, Death retrieves the book Liesel wrote explaining her life after the air raid at the end of the novel. Death is "haunted" by humans and unable to reconcile humanity's capacity for evil with humanity's capacity for good. To cope with all of the questions In its line of work, Death tries to focus on colors as a way of distracting itself from the survivors of those who have died. …show more content…
This is because you are not given all the answers. The author makes you work for it. You have to read in between the lines. It contains many diverse themes that are not so easy to identify. For example, Ilsa gave Liesel a book, but Liesel refused to take it because she was angered. Later she stole the same book from Ilsa’s library. Why? It's because in Liesel's mind stealing was a form of defiance and stealing the book from Ilsa instead of taking it when Ilsa offered it, was her way to get back at Ilsa for firing her mother. Liesel also didn't want the book out of pity, but she did want the book which is why she stole it. By challenging you, the author is getting you to think deeper for the meaning which makes the book that much more
To begin, Markus Zusak personified “death” by giving it a sense of curiosity and a combination of dark and funny personalities. Who would ever turn down a book that is narrated by death? Many of the books on WWII are all written by the perspectives of the people that lived through it, but none are based on the perspective of someone who would have seen everything. In the book, Death retrieves the book Liesel wrote explaining her life after the air raid at the end of the novel. Death is "haunted" by humans and unable to reconcile humanity's capacity for evil with humanity's capacity for good. To cope with all of the questions In its line of work, Death tries to focus on colors as a way of distracting itself from the survivors of those who have died. …show more content…
This is because you are not given all the answers. The author makes you work for it. You have to read in between the lines. It contains many diverse themes that are not so easy to identify. For example, Ilsa gave Liesel a book, but Liesel refused to take it because she was angered. Later she stole the same book from Ilsa’s library. Why? It's because in Liesel's mind stealing was a form of defiance and stealing the book from Ilsa instead of taking it when Ilsa offered it, was her way to get back at Ilsa for firing her mother. Liesel also didn't want the book out of pity, but she did want the book which is why she stole it. By challenging you, the author is getting you to think deeper for the meaning which makes the book that much more