Markus Zusak

Summary of Plot Author Markus Zusak sums up the story of protagonist Liesel Meminger, a young girl residing in Nazi Germany, in his fictional novel The Book Thief. Narrated by death himself, the novel highlights significant events from the perspective of a usual being. The story develops an awareness to the struggles of the girl. This includes how her character progresses in light of the traumatic events she experiences throughout her young life. By the end of the novel, it is apparent in the…

In the compelling novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger discovers the importance and power of words, especially the power they have in the book’s setting of Molching, Germany during the reign of anti-semitic Adolf Hitler. After Liesel loses her mother and her brother she is sent to live with her new foster parents, the accordion playing Hans Hubermann, and his wife, the resilient Rosa Hubermann. Her new life has much in store for her including stealing books, a Jewish man…

All my life, I have loved listening and reading words, watching them float out of a person’s mouth or off of a page, forming into images. As a child, every morning, every night, was spent listening… listening to my mom, dad, or ba (my grandmother) read to me. I would walk up to them with my tiny toes and button nose and give them a book, whether it be Goodnight Moon or Runaway Bunny by Margaret Brown, or a book by Eric Carle, most likely The Secret Birthday Message. As I have gotten older, I…

In Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, Hans Hubermann and his wife, Rosa, newly foster nine-year-old Liesel Meminger. This new addition to the family changes all of their lives forever. The novel is narrated by Death, and is set in the small and fictitious town of Molching, Germany in the Second World War, Hans and everyone around him in Molching, Germany are expected to help support the Nazi party, even if it alters them as a person. Everyone is affected by this setting; some people had an…

Survival is resilience! To be resilient is to survive! I say this because those words are equal in meaning and definition. What does the word resilience mean? There are a few definitions of the word and in order for me to fully understand the meaning; I had to dissect the definition. There are two distinct differences relating to a human and an object. For a human, resilience refers to how the person recovered from adversities; whereas for an object, it refers to how it returns to its…

Popular novels written throughout different time periods illustrate the prevalence of tension creating an emotional connection in admired pieces of literature. In the novel Push, Sapphire writes from the point of view of Precious, a young teenage girl dealing with physical and verbal abuse from both her parents, as she tries to better life for herself and children. Sapphire’s poetic yet informal diction draws the reader deep into Precious’ inner thoughts and feelings as she deals with the…

Back in the 1600s, when the Renaissance age existed monarchies existed everywhere in Europe and some parts of Asia. The king rules the country and was considered the leader who made all the countries decision from war to education. So when a king dies or gets murdered it would have a huge impact on its people because they lost their ruler. Shakespeare play Macbeth is essentially about a superior soldier that is very well known around the royal family who ends up getting brainwashed from witches…

Introduction: In 1939, modern world’s largest conflagration started, when Germany invaded Poland and ended with Japan’s surrender in 1945. When Adolf Hitler, despite signing nonaggression pact with soviet forces, attacked Poland, Britain and France countered the act by declaring war on Germany. The events that followed were fall of Norway and Denmark at the hands of Nazi forces and invasion of lower countries. The war deteriorated when Nazi forces attacked Soviet Union, violating the…