Examples Of Cruelty In The Book Thief

Adolf Hitler is a prime example of the cruelty in humans in The Book Thief. Hitler fed the German people lies, conned them into his accepting his beliefs and then completely destroyed all hope throughout the entire country. He made people feel terrified for living lives guided by their own beliefs, and that they shouldn’t feel comfortable in their own bodies if their features were different than what Hitler said was acceptable. Liesel couldn’t even feel safe with herself because she had brown eyes. If a Nazi soldier were to see her and look into her eyes, it would be an automatic trip to death camp. When Liesel first meets Rudy, he shows her the road of yellow stars (Zusak 51). The road of yellow stars

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, written by Markus Zusak, outlines the tragedies and events that take place in Liesel Meminger’s life, in Nazi Germany. Throughout this young girl’s struggle of living in the oppressive Nazi regime, she is able to learn crucial lessons about life and the art of survival- some that follow her to the grave. The most important lesson she learned and the pivotal theme of the novel is that rebellion can be and beneficial in certain situations.

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is a story of ups and downs. At one point, Liesel is in complete misery and then another she is happy. She starts to realize that there is a universal balance of good and bad. However, she did not always understand this balance. Markus Zusak uses figurative language and structure to develop the theme that there is balance in the universe of good and bad.

The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by Markus Zusak. Based on its title, some readers might think the story is just about a thief who steals books, but really it’s more emotional than stealing books, the story is about a young girl named Liesel Meminger who steals books when people in Germany were captivated by Adolf Hitler from book burning and other places. The interesting point is that the books are not something really important, in fact, they’re just normal reading books, and the reason she steals the books is because of her desire for reading. Even Though Liesel is the protagonist of this novel, but in this essay, the main focus point is not her, but another guy who is also loved by the readers.

In Kingsolvers’ novel,The Poisonwood Bible, the characters are subjected to physical and physiological cruelty due to the actions and imperiousness of the perpetrator and antagonist Nathan Price. The Poisonwood Bible is told in a series of chronological accounts from the women of Price family in which the reader sees the cruelty and misfortune they endure in their everyday life in the Congo. In the end, cruelty pushes the Price family to the breaking point and the whole family decides to leave Nathan in the village as he loses what is little left of his sanity.

That means each man was on the verge of dying from starvation and they saw the few crumbs from the bread as something that could save them from their death beds. However, the man was amused by the men beating each up for the ration because he’s never seen how much of animal man can turn into given the right circumstances. The Nazi’s felt that the Jewish men on the freight cars were already heading to their deaths along with their already deceased friends and family, so they didn’t give them any food due to that aspect. Dehumanization is shown because the ones who lived in fear actually turned into the ones conflicting

Max Vandenburg, who was a very supportive boy of Liesel, always helped her during her worst times and even her best times. Max had missed Liesel’s 12th birthday so he made her a little gift. He took a book called Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, but made it his own called The Standover Man. He gave this book to Liesel as it symbolizes how people have always stood over him in his life to help him just like Liesel has. “During that week, Max had cut out a collection of pages from Mein Kampf and painted over them in white. He then hung them up with pegs on some string, from one end of the basement to the other … Only then, on the paper that had bubbled and humped under the stress of drying paint, did he begin to write the story. It was done with a small black paintbrush” (Zusak 223). This quote reflects the power of words because Max is doing this for Liesel since they are good friends, and since it's her birthday. This comes to show that Max is about positive words towards his friends, but mainly Liesel.

The acts of human nature can become a very difficult concept to understand. Markus Zusak uses Death throughout the The Book Thief to express the complexity of human nature. Death illustrates how complicated beings humans are and how they hold the capacity to act in both evil and beautiful ways. Throughout the novel Death helps give readers insight to the ignorance displayed and the pain it may cause a person. In the most troublesome and discriminatory times of the Holocaust, Death will point out the beautiful acts of compassion carried out by characters involved in the novel. Sometimes beauty and pain is mixed within the sacrifice some make for those they love and are loyal to.

“The Book Thief” presented a story filled with various themes that comprised a powerful plot line. Although there were many themes in the story, there was one that stood out to me more than others. In the process of reading the book, the theme of suffering affected me the most. The definition of the word suffer is to experience or be subjected to something bad or unpleasant. Different characters within the story are subjected to dreadful feelings and are therefore suffering. Through my analyzation, I observed the three different types of suffering that the characters experienced: guilt, feelings of emptiness, and anxiety. The characters of “The Book Thief” experience these three types of suffering in different ways.

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living in our fears.” (Les Brown). This is observed in numerous instances in The Book Thief. In the novel, fear can cripple indistinguishably as physical injury by subjugating one’s tenets, forcing paranoia down their throats, and ever so carefully whispering the panic. This may result in either a cracking, collapsing whimper or a roaring laughter.

This just shows how Germans burn things down for no reason. The Book Thief has also included how Liesel was hateful of the germans burning down things. Liesel does not like them for what they have done and because it was some people's most special to them. Also she can be hateful about The nazi party, because “Prior to

In the story The Book Thief, Markus Zusak introduces the theme that, many times relationships and connections may influence an individual's decision and could result in change of that individual's life. For example, towards the middle of the book after Rudy and Liesel have started stealing food from the town, one job in particular has Liesel questioning “Don’t you feel bad?” to Rudy after they stole food from Otto (Zusak 164). This shows that Liesel is still slightly guilty for what they did because she knows it's wrong, but later in the book it states that five days later they steal from a farmer; this time Liesel doesn't think twice about saying yes. From this, one can interpret that Liesel's relationship with Rudy has caused her to become

In the real world everyone loses their innocence at some point and decides to grow up, others are either childish for their life or are forced to grow up. In section two of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the author’s message about loss of innocence is that being forced to grow up and do things on your own is difficult, especially at such a young age.

we as readers learn by reading this novel the way in which the people should live together in harmony and peace through a primary moral attitude which is respect and accept each other despite