Analysis Of ' The Palace Thief '

Through all of the irony and vivid coloring, The Book Thief is more easily understood after acquiring knowledge of reading literature with greater care and meticulousness. Applying chapters of How to Read Literature like a Professor can better enhance a reader’s awareness of hidden messages and symbols within certain works of literature. In Chapter Two, Foster explains how meals suggest a communion between all parties involved in it. Markus Zusak also uses meals and food to bring families together in The Book Thief. Foster also explains, in Chapter Eleven, how violence in literature usually stands for more than just violence.

“The Book Thief” is a novel and film about a girl who survives death during WW2 and how words became very important to her life. Liesel Meminger was brought to her foster home unable to read. Her foster father, Hans, finds out she can’t read and helps teaches her German. Liesel then falls in love with words and uses them to write her story.The theme “power of words” is displayed in the novel and film equally. Three ways the power of words were shown was by making an emotional connection with the audience, influencing people to do something, and creating unlikely friendships.

A terrific book is a piece of writing that is immensely riveting and interesting, that it draws the reader into the emotions and drama of the story, and makes them turn the page to see what will happen. (Correct Use of Modifier) An excellent book also incorporates action and dilemmas which give the reader choices about how they think the characters should respond or behave in certain instances. The key elements of a great book are its characters, the challenges they face and the development of the protagonist or antagonist as the story progresses. (Capitalization of Title) In City of Thieves, by David Benioff the book has all of these elements and a great story line. The reasons why this book is so great is because of the character development,

There are many relationships throughout the small part we read, in the story ‘The Palace Thief’. The few key relationship are Mr. Hundert & Sedgwick, Mr. Hundert & Senator Bell, and Mr. Hundert & Charles Ellerby.

Words are everywhere, words make up books, and the power of words make The Book Thief which will never be able to be improved upon. Words help us communicate with others, but mainly they have positive and negative sides to them. In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Death narrates the story while Liesel Meminger also tells her story of living in Nazi, Germany. We will discuss how there are many people such as Max Vandenburg and Liesel Meminger who choose to use to use their power of words in the positive way. We will also discuss how people also like to use their power of words in the negative way such as Adolf Hitler. The power of words are very effective especially in Markus Zusak’s writing, and we’ll discuss the main parts of the book which have been effected with the power of words.

For three generations of boys, Mr.Hundert in the short story “The Palace Thief” by Ethan Canin has molded his students into the leaders of tomorrow. Mr.Hundert is candid about the Senators and other successful men that he has produced from his classroom at St.Benedict’s school. Being as certain as he was about his ability to create future leaders, when Mr.Hundert’s belief is challenged by Senator Bell, he surely goes against his moral compass in order to prove that Senator Bell is wrong. Mr.Hundert is aware that he is making a mistake however, he proceeds to augment Sedgewick Bell’s grades so that Sedgewick Bell would be able to participate in a prestigious school competition. At first, Mr. Hundert does this furtively, however when Sedgewick Bell cheats during the competition, Mr.Hundert’s initial actions of changing Sedgewick’s grade begin to to spin out of control. Called into question by the Bell’s, Mr.Hundert simultaneously ruins his reputation as an honest man, yet also proves his ability to not merely teach his students, but rather mold them, repeating his own mistakes of allowing himself to be used by others.

“How deeply a viper is a viper” (Canin, pg. 173). Throughout the story of “The Palace Thief”, the main character Hundert is a teacher at the highly prestigious school St. Benedicts. During Hundert’s time at St. Benedicts he develops a sense of self importance from the schools reputation, and sees his work as life changing for his students because of this, which is part of the reason why when a character named Sedgewick Bell, a misbehaving student with an intimidating father, enters the scene Hundert makes it his personal duty to correct his behavior, and mold him into a better man. Due to this Hundert attempts to push Sedgewick into becoming better, and eventually favors him over another student and gives Sedgewick a place in a competition

In the article "The Palace Thief" by Ethan Canin, Mr.Hundert became more of a teacher that likes a particular student which was Mr. Bells. Through out the story Hundert over looked, emotion towards, and over estimate Sedgewick Bells. When Bells do well in the class Hundert overlooked on Bells which gave him a spot in the Julius Ceaser competition. Hundert express feelings toward Bells after Hundert met with his father because after the meeting Bell's father is a jerk, Bells started doing well, overlooked on Bells.

“Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight.” (99) In this quote Elie Weisel really describes how I look at chapter 7. Well I know other thing happened in this chapter but I really think that a big part of this chapter is about Elie not feeling like there is any will in his body to fight, to breathe, to live. Which really opened my mind up more in understanding the novel in a deeper way. It made me see what it could do to a person in a concentration camp. It dehumanized Elie. I believe that he was more like a caged animal. If you put a person like Elie in a “cage” a stripe him of his humanity he no longer will have a mentality of a human being. When you break a person for example in this book two of the worst things could happen: lose the will to live or could do whatever the person who put you in the cage wants you to do.

I have finally finished the 552 page The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Once I got into the story, it didn’t seem long at all. The way Zusak writes with such realistic characters and events kept me sucked in wanting to read more and more. When I got to the last page I felt like crying, and not just because of the content, but because I had just finished an amazing novel and almost wanted read it over again that minute-- and I rarely reread books. There is good news for me, however, because I can watch the movie version of the novel or I could read his Zusak’s other novel I am the Messenger which also sounds very interesting.

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Within the text “ A Palace Thief” by Ethan Canin, Hundert, a history teacher in St. Benedict's, believes that he will mold his students characters. He then meets Sedgewick Bell, a student who influences his “code of morals.”