Along with his dictatorship also came one of the most gruesome events in history as the Holocaust. Jewish people had already received an immense amount of hatred for thousand of years so Hitler built up all those feelings with the most powerful weapon known to man; words. He poisoned all of their minds to believe that Jews were the enemy and they soaked up every single word he said. The words were nurtured so they grew and blossomed until they took over all of Germany and infected it with poison. This book shows the power of words and how it has the ability to inspire and destroy. This is what the plot focuses on. However what makes this book so much different from the others is it 's unusual take on the Holocaust. Other books tend to focus on the pains of the Jewish victims but The Book Thief gives us a different perspective as it focuses on Liesel, a German orphan girl living in an antisemitic environment where one is forced to praise Hitler and if you refuse, you 're as good as dead. It shows the effects of world war II on the citizens and describes it so accurately that we feel like we 're actually experiencing the story. She is fostered by the Hubermanns since her mother does not have the means to take care of her and on their way there her brother simply could not survive the journey. Because of the war there is one thing that you 'll keep finding
Along with his dictatorship also came one of the most gruesome events in history as the Holocaust. Jewish people had already received an immense amount of hatred for thousand of years so Hitler built up all those feelings with the most powerful weapon known to man; words. He poisoned all of their minds to believe that Jews were the enemy and they soaked up every single word he said. The words were nurtured so they grew and blossomed until they took over all of Germany and infected it with poison. This book shows the power of words and how it has the ability to inspire and destroy. This is what the plot focuses on. However what makes this book so much different from the others is it 's unusual take on the Holocaust. Other books tend to focus on the pains of the Jewish victims but The Book Thief gives us a different perspective as it focuses on Liesel, a German orphan girl living in an antisemitic environment where one is forced to praise Hitler and if you refuse, you 're as good as dead. It shows the effects of world war II on the citizens and describes it so accurately that we feel like we 're actually experiencing the story. She is fostered by the Hubermanns since her mother does not have the means to take care of her and on their way there her brother simply could not survive the journey. Because of the war there is one thing that you 'll keep finding