Book Thief Narrative

“The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about…[but] what it meant …was more important [because it was] the last time she saw her brother..[and] her mother” (Zusak,38) – Death conveying what the book “The Grave Digger’s Handbook” meant to Liesel.

There are many reasons why Liesel’s life shows beauty in the wake of brutality, but the most significant reason is that she has beautiful connections with people, so no matter how brutal things get,

Death often foreshadows, or even just tells the reader, what will happen in the future of the book. This prepares the reader for what will happen in the future, making the book even more unique than it already is. It is not often that a reader learns of the death of a character before it actually happens (Cooley, Steffen). This is quite the opposite of what happens in The Book Thief. Death, as a narrator, knows what will happen and to whom it will happen to (Cooley, Steffen). One of the most extreme cases of this is the foreshadowing of Rudy Steiner’s  death. On page 241 Death openly says:”A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT RUDY STEINER. He didn’t deserve to die the way he did” (Zusak). This tells the reader that Rudy will die, but not telling the reader when he dies, adding more suspense to the book. Death also

Through following the life and hardships surrounding Liesel; Death learns how humans can simultaneously have a good side and a wicked side to them; he learns much about human nature, but is still confused by this aspect of humans even after studying the life of Liesel for about seventy years; and he still does not fully understand this aspect of humans, so comes to a grim conclusion about them. Starting from the first chapter of The Book Thief, it is apparent that Death has a complicated and unorthodox way of seeing things. On the first page, he says “First the colors. Then the humans.

Death. To many, it is the end of life and start of a new beginning from this world, but in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Death is our narrator. He is the one who guides us through the life of a young German girl named Liesel during Nazi Germany. Death manages to see her three times, and soon enough, becomes fascinated by her and the trials she must face in her life. Liesel manages to change Death’s character, surprising him in a way he thought humans never could and changing his viewpoint on them forever.

Liesel most definitely could have trusted Rudy with the secret of having Max hidden in her basement. Rudy was clearly Liesel’s best friend and partner in crime when Liesel was doing her acts of thievery stealing the books from the mayor’s wife bookself. The devotion to Liesel Rudy also had was strong and I believe Liesel could have trusted Rudy.

Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, tells the heart-wrenching story of Liesel Meminger, a German girl, as she navigates adolescence in Nazi Germany. With his convincing depiction of the time, it could be said that Zusak worked within the conventions of realistic fiction were it not for his otherworldly narrator—Death. Death traditionally marks the end of a story, so Zusak’s decision to begin his novel with Death’s voice piqued my interest. This interest was intensified by Death’s unique characterization—he is personified, yet retains his inhuman features. This incongruity in conjunction with the aberrant choice in narrator raised the question:

Death is the narrator. He is fascinated by humans and the colors of the world, but he struggles throughout the novel to figure out how humans are capable of so much ugliness and so much beauty. Death has real feelings,you can see him experience both sadness and joy. He even gets depressed.Death often provides humorous, or dark quotes. having death to narrate the book thief, foreshadows the book. Death is this mean character that kills people. He is sometimes nice and helps.He lists the main elements of the story, and reveals that he has seen the main character, the book thief, three times. The first time he saw her was on a train where he had come to collect the soul of a small boy. The book thief watched him take the boy with tears frozen

In conclusion, by choosing death as the narrator Markus Zusak provides the reader with the information that Liesel does not know and death knows but also describes Liesel, her life and how she feels about the things that are happening in her life. Also, by choosing death as the narrator it allows Zusak to describe the other characters and their thoughts which is effective because it does not create confusion and makes the reader eager to read more. For example, “AN ATTRIBUTIVE OF ROSA HUBERMANN She was a good woman for a crisis”. This is written in bold which means that it has been used as a distraction and to give information about the characters who death is talking about and it also provides the reader with the opinion of

“Words are life, Liesel” said Max Vanderburg – a hidden Jewish to Liesel Meminger – an ambitious and young girl. In “The book thief” movie, directed by Brian Percival, the connection between two protagonists reinforced by the skilled techniques and advanced up by colours, symbols and camera angles. All connections showed effectively and controlled were in the Christmas scene of this movie. This scene positively affected my thinking about the bond within the family for the strangers.

Craig awoke with his black cat, Thief, perched on his chest and pawing at his face. The sunlight was slipping through the curtains onto his bed, creating a warm spot for Thief to jump back onto once Craig threw him off his chest. Both he and his cat let out a long, loud yawn then got out of bed, ready for breakfast. Craig never liked the taste of coffee, so as he opened a can of cat food from the cupboard he walked over to the fridge to grab a ready-made smoothie. He settled on ‘tropical berry’ and set the can of food down for the cat so he could enjoy his meal without a high pitched whine. He sat down at his bar countertop and shuffled through the newspaper headlines on his tablet accompanied only by the soft smacking of his cat chewing. The rest of his world was still, if only for a moment.

It was confusing what was happening because we had to get out of our houses. . We had to go on a smelly cattle cart. On the first day of the journey my mother was moaning because her two sons and husband were on a different train by mistake. Then it all began my mother was constantly keep saying“Look At The Fire! Look at The Flame!” and told her to be quiet. I was very scared when those men were beating and gagging my mother that's when things were taken to another level. Now everyone probably thought my mother was a crazy and insane woman. I wanted to stop them but I was afraid they were going to hurt me. I understood why they did it to her but why gag her. They could of told her to be quiet but that probably would not have worked well.

The city was surrounded by a small river to protect us from the cruelty from the Jungle. The gates opened and in all the years I had lived in the city, the sun never seemed brighter than it was right now. But I know it hadn’t changed. As we loaded on the boats, weighted down by the heaviness of the rusty shackles, I was hoping I would wake up from some bad dream, and return to a life anew. A life where I wasn’t a thief, a life where I had parents to raise me. A life where I didn’t live in slums.

One morning at the break of dawn, a guard lit a candle and went to his king’s fortress to check on his king’s gold. Then, all of the sudden he heard a shriek. So he went to check where the shriek had come from. He saw that a prisoner was slumped against a cell wall with blood all over it. Just as he was about to unlock the cell door, he realized it was a trap. When he was about to turn back, he noticed a mysterious shadow through the window. He realized which way the shadow was going. He knew he must follow it.

This drawing represent the part where Ethan got kidnapped by someone he didn't know. Ethan got kidnapped while he was in the cemetery. He was put into a car that drove off out of the city. The man took Ethan into the woods. Ethan recognized that he was the men who pointed him in the alley days before. The men wanted Ethan cameras and Ethan didn't know why he wanted his camera but the grabbed Ethan's camera of his bag and destroyed. Ethan was terrified his hands were tied, he couldn't do anything, he continued on crying. Moments after Ethan untied his hands by cutting the rope in a sharp rock. Ethan grabbed a shovel and hit the men on his head while he was trying to get his gun out his car. Ethan grabbed the gun and keys from him and throw