The Lightning Thief

and the 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…

• Book Journal 1 prompt: What is happening with the plot of your story? Has the author used foreshadowing so you were able to predict the next events or have you been surprised? The Book Thief book journal one: The Book Thief is set in the time of the Second World War, when the Nazi party occupied Germany. This creates some tension with the people in the story that are against the Nazis and the people that support the Nazi party. This affects Liesel because a Jew might to come to her house…

The Book Thief is “just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . .” (pg6) Sounds familiar, right? But don’t be tricked by the premise. The Book Thief is, without a doubt, one of those books that will stay with you all your life, or should I say it will haunt you. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s novel follows the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl…

to die” (Zusak 3). So, with these ten small words, begins the reader’s tumultuous relationship with Death, the narrator of Markus Zusak’s novel, “The Book Thief”. In a world where hundreds of pieces of literature have been published in an effort to preserve the memory of Hitler’s Nazi regime and their cruel acts against humanity, “The Book Thief”, with its striking narration, becomes a unique testament to the Holocaust. Death escorts the reader into the hellish realm of Germany during the…

An event in The Book Thief that is the exposition is when the narrator, “Death”, has its first flashback, to when Liesel’s brother died on the train. I chose this to be the exposition because it gave insight to the trauma she has been through and how that affects her now. An event in The Book Thief that is the rising action is when Hans gives the bread to the jewish person during the march. After facing the consequences, this made Hans feel so uneasy about Max hiding in their house, that he…

as she hauled the words in and breathed them out…For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw vision of the whistler running from the crime scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the worlds-their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on (Zusak 381). This quote was taken from the part of the story where the whole town was in a bomb shelter during the second bombing of Himmel…

Many characters in pieces of literature are characterized as strong, brave, and courageous. The Resistance of Auschwitz in the novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, by Antonio Iturbe are unique in which they are quietly revolting against the Nazis. They are willing to run schools, read books, and break many of the rules imposed by the villainous Nazis. Most of them are not afraid of death anymore. One man in particular, though, takes resisting the Nazis to an extreme level. In The Librarian of…

The use of themes, such as losing innocence and the power of words, are used in The Book Thief and in The Catcher in the Rye to better show the main character's life journey. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is a story narrated by Death, of a young girl, Liesel, and her journey through life in Germany, 1939. the author, J.D. Salinger wrote the Catcher in the Rye with Holden as the narrator. Holden is a sixteen year old boy who has been kicked out of several private schools, cuts classes whenever…

discussing is The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. This historical fiction novel's central question is about how humans can do both the most beautiful and the most cruel of things. Therefore, this central question is, what are humans capable of? How are they capable of such great things, as well, as such horrible things? In this essay, I argue that The Book Thief has more than one important theme and all of them helped to advance the plot and influence the story. The Book Thief is a story that is…

Zusak’s The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger moves in with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, in Molching, Germany. Together the three of them must overcome hiding a jew in their basement, life-threatening bombings, and war. With her best friend Rudy by her side, Leisel must learn to survive in these hard times. Through the course of the story, people can do amazing things when they are driven to survive, becomes clear through the setting, characters, and plot. First, In The Book Thief,…