The Lightning Thief

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, is a powerful written story about Liesel Memiger who lives with a foster family during World War 2. Through the course of the book, you meet new characters and watch them and Liesel grow, learn and thrive through the power of words. The importance of words in The Book Thief has a great impact on characters connections, without words none of the characters would thrive and learn about the world, for example when Liesel has her nightmares, Hans connects with her…

driver who likes to read and is chosen to deliver messages. One of the many other books written by Markus Zusak is The Book Thief. The Book Thief is exceedingly different from I am the Messenger in the subject; the Book Thief is about the Holocaust and I am the Messenger concerns an underage taxi cab driver. I am the Messenger is lesser known which differs from The Book Thief because it is more popular. I am the Messenger contains friendly tone, a good message for readers, and a clever…

WWII can be seen through many eyes and The Book Thief tells its story through the eyes of Death (Zusak 3). Death tells a story of a German young girl named Liesel and her experience of growing up through WWII (Zusak 5) In the book, the reader sees the importance of reading through the stages of Liesel’s childhood. To her, the books she steals are not just words on pages. They remind her of a turning point in her youth. The importance of reading in Liesel’s life can be reflected in the reader’s…

Themes and Humanity in The Book Thief The Holocaust was arguably one of the most devastating events in history. The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is an illustration of how dangerous this era was. The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster child who develops a love of books and words after her foster father, Hans Hubermann, teaches her how to read. However, Liesel’s life changes when the family begins to hide a Jew, Max Vandenburg, in their basement. In the middle of…

US History II Honors Summer Assignment (Group B, Essay 1) In Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, stories within the story often act as a powerful plot device. They serve to reveal underlying themes within the novel, to make character’s feelings known, or to break down what is happening around the characters into a more metaphorical form. The stories convey feelings, such as in Max vandenburg’s stories that he illustrated for Liesel, “The Standover Man” and “The Word Shaker”. The Max’s…

When Liesel is about 9 years old, she learns to read coming to an understatement that Hitler's form of propaganda and figures out why her mother, father, and brother are killed. Max, who truly understands and gets the effect of hitler’s propaganda helps impart this lesson in the story “The World Shaker”. In this journey of liesel leaving her old family, and becoming a stepdaughter of a new family with a mean step mother doesn’t like her in the beginning and claims she isn’t good and with a…

Clive Barker, the author of the novel The Thief of Always, develops the story well using the setting to drop hints and symbolize elements of the story. Harvey, on a mission to get back his childhood and destroy Mr. Hood and his Holiday House, encounters lots of interesting places, which are used as clues in the book. The setting is very important to the plot, and builds depth. The setting is a key element in the Thief of Always. Millsap, the town which Harvey lives in, is one of the biggest…

A thief is defined as “a person who steals, especially secretly or without open force”. This relates to the main character the narrator who is stealing throughout the story without his friend’s knowing. The author of “The Thief”, Junichiro Tanizaki, proves the theme of how people should not trust one another so easily based on his main characters. Nakamura, the thief's friend plays a great role in the theme of “The Thief”. Nakamura does not suspect the narrator of being the thief like Hirata…

Markus Zusak’s novel “The Book Thief” rocketed up the world’s best-seller lists when it first appeared in 2005, although the book is set at WWII Nazi Germany. The novel is accepted worldwide because of the themes in this book which resonate very deeply with people from different cultures and backgrounds. Especially when we compare that to Marc Forster’s movie “The Kite Runner”, A 2007 American drama with its screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of…

Book Report – The Book Thief The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a historically fictive novel set in Nazi Germany, at the very beginning of WWII. The Book Thief is about a young orphaned girl by the name of Leisel Meminger living during the coming of age of WWII. As Death narrates, we watch Leisel as a young girl, travelling with her mother and brother to meet her foster parents. Sadly, her younger brother Werner dies during the trip. During her brother’s funeral, she finds a book…