Markus Zusak

culture you live in, you’re not going to express anything to anybody else.” This quote by Paula Scher accurately describes how and why Liesel is impacted by the books she reads during World War II in Molching, Germany. In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the protagonist, Liesel Meminger, is a young girl who was once illiterate until she learns how to read. The books that Liesel Meminger reads from when she was just about to turn ten to after she turned fourteen guides her and influences…

An example is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. This novel is narrated by “death”. It tells the story of a young orphan girl, Liesel Meminger, and the struggles she faced during the Holocaust. It is set in Germany between 1939 and 1943. After her brother dies and her mother can no longer take…

In Markus Zusak's’ “The Book Thief”, he makes Death the narrator. Yes, death takes your loved ones away from you, but Death is not all bad, he has compassion too. “The Book Thief” takes place in Nazi, Germany, while a young girls brother dies, and her parents go missing, and is forced to live in a foster home. Death displays his compassion by showing how attentive he is to Liesel, how his job impacts him, and his obsession with colors. Death assembled Liesel’s fearless encounters, to share with…

Annemarie Johansen is a young girl who hangs out with her friend Ellen and takes care of her little sister Kirsti. She lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, during World War II. Copenhagen used to be peaceful, but now it's full of enemy soldiers. The Nazis have come into Denmark from Germany and are slowly forcing the Danish people to do what they say. Annemarie is a friendly young lady, and sees how life has changed since the Nazis came along. Actually, Annemarie's older sister Lise died around the…

The Book Thief Summer Reading Assignment Theme: Words have the power to heal, the power to hurt and the power to change people’s lives. Passage: “ ‘Liesel, if you tell anyone about the man up there, we will all be in very big trouble.’ He walked the fine line of scaring her into oblivion and soothing her enough to keep her calm. He fed her sentences and watched with his metallic eyes. Desperation and placidity. ‘At the very least Mama and I will be taken away.’ Hans was clearly worried that…

The Book Thief. The book thief is a book about death, love and survival. There is the death of a friend, love of a parent, and survival of those who can’t take it. World War ll was a catastrophic period of time and many people didn’t have the mental strength and stability to survive it. The book thief is about Liesel Meminger a 9 year old girl who was abandoned by her mother shortly before World War II to stay with two people she doesn’t know in Molching at a foster home. On their way to…

The Book Thief uses World War II as the desolate setting for Liesel’s journey. At the start of this novel, Liesel is innocent and unaware, however it quickly changes with the loss of her brother. This excerpt best forwards the theme that the loss of innocence is simply another casualty among the many of war. The death of her brother is incomprehensible to Liesel, “Still in disbelief, … He couldn’t be dead” demonstrates her inability to face reality. Her childhood has abruptly ended,and has…

The book The Book Thief has many topics that support many different themes throughout the whole book. For examples kindness, words and responsibilities. To begin, The Hubermanns show a big act of kindness when they hide and take care of Max. They make it a priority to keep him alive and are willing to put their own lives in danger, not to mention they give him so much respect. They also care for him and show him emotions as if he was truly apart of the family. Liesel and Max form a strong…

Book Stealer One day May was feeling bored. She was in her house and needed something to do. She did have the laptop but her big sister Lilly wanted to borrow it and broke it by dropping it at her house. May didn’t get mad because Lilly was going to get a better laptop in a few weeks. So, she decided to read a manga. May liked manga and anime it was because of the drawing style and the story line. May jumped out of her beds and walked to her bookcase where she keep…

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…