Book Thief Personal Response

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The questions that 's only a lot of your minds is why should you read the book im going to intoduce to you? What exactly is so special and interesting about this book that you just have to listen to my presentation? Well firstly you do not know what a good book is until you have read an historical fiction book such as The Book Thief. Why is this so? Because it 's such a devastatingly yet beautifully written book that it 's able to convert even the biggest non readers into reading addicts. However a majority of teenagers tend to believe that because a book has the word history in it it will automatically be boring. In fact, Some polls have taken place to see which genres make the most money and which genres teenagers tend to like the best. As …show more content…
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

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