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This also shows the reader that by Hans recognising the old jewish man as human, the life of the Jewish man is significantly impacted as he now feels something of worth and can die now knowing he is a human. This act of giving bread also impacts the life of Hans, as Hans is made to join the army in the most dangerous class of work as he is now seen as a ‘Jew Lover’. Through this quote the audience can see that change is inevitable and impacts the course of ones life, as through one act of kindness, two mens lives are significantly impacted. Zusak explores the concept of changing perspectives through how he incorporates the idea that change is inevitable and impacts the course of ones life, into the roles of his characters in his book ‘The Book Thief’.

When you are done reading a book called, “The Book Thief”, by Markus Zusak, you may experience a lot of themes that support the human condition. In these stanzas, you’ll expect to see many themes that support the passage and it has many meaning toward readers. A main character, (Liesel), feels abandoned when her mother and brother leaves her life and Max feels abandoned because he abandoned his family. This is one part of the theme in the story and all readers can observe such passage every time they read each chapter from the book. Another example, can be Hans feels guilty over Erik’s death during World War 1. Therefore, two of these main points is an alternative way of the human condition. When a person who is thoughtlessness and

Music is like the wardrobe to Narnia. It sends an individual into a whole new world and causes one to forget about the world and problems they are living in now. In the novel A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, Beah becomes a child soldier unwillingly during a civil war in Sierra, Leone when he is twelve years old. All he had was his rap music that kept him going. In Ishmael Beahs novel he uses detail and diction to highlight how music provides a means by which ones life can be saved by the power of music, can temporarily escape the harsh realities of life, and can connect to happier times.

The reader is able to see the emotional chaos the characters are subject to after trauma. It changes their behaviors and can make them take risks they wouldn’t normally take. Zucker opens readers to understand the sorrow of Jews and sympathizers that fled from their homes and families while under persecution during World War II, as well as World War I veterans. In the words of Death, the narrator “It’s the leftover humans. The survivors [...] I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs” (Zusak 5). It is true that this type of guilt is often paralysing to certain individuals; however, it can also create empathy and strength when survivors overcome these defining hardships in life. This is shown through Liesel’s friendships with Max and Hans, and the emotional maturity they each possess. These relationships help bring acceptance and joy back into survivors’ lives, and allow them to release the guilt of leaving one

In the book “A Long Way Gone” music plays a role as a healer and a saviour.

Narration is important in almost any book,  which is why it is especially important in   Mark Zusak’s: The Book Thief.  He uses foreshadowing, perspective, and interaction with the  reader to make the book so much more interesting. Zusak's selection of Death as the narrator heavily changes and alters the way the book is read. Death allows the reader to have a completely new and different perspective of Death itself, he heavily foreshadows very important events in the book, and he interacts with the reader many times throughout the book. By presenting death as the narrator, Zusak provides a more outside and impartial view of humanity’s pain and suffering (Johnson).

In the memoir A Long Way Gone, author Ishmael Beah describes his survival journey as a lost child in his country, because of the civil war in Sierra Leone, then becoming a child soldier facing war daily, afterward the process that Beah went through during rehabilitation and finally in fear escaping the civil war. Ishmael Beah emotional journey has three stages of development in which Beah utilized music. In the first stage, Beah uses music as a survival mechanism to keep sane and safe. In the second stage, begins when he loses his brother and friends, Beah reaches the lowest point with the loss of his entire family again, some friends, music, and being forced to join the war. In the final stage, is the process of rehabilitation where Beah connects with music once again. Ishmael Beah exposure to music at a young age stayed with him throughout his life. (Beah, 2007, p. 5-218)

Zusak alludes to the many book burnings that took place in Nazi Germany to show what people thought of words, and how powerful they really are. “Nazi’s were gathering fuel… Liesel was witness to men and women knocking on doors, asking people if they had material that they felt should be done away with or destroyed” (Zusak 101). This is when people come knocking on doors, asking for books they deemed ‘un-German’ to burn in a large bonfire that night. Zusak alludes to this event to show how Germany thought of words and what they did to the mind. Zusak uses an allusion to Adolf Hitler himself to show how powerful his words were to the citizens of Germany and how they influenced them. “Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing” (Zusak 521). Here, the narrator Death is speaking about Hitler and that if he never spoke those words he did, if he never rose to power, the world wouldn’t be the way it is. Zusak does this to show words, even when negatively used, can change people and what they do. Zusak uses an allusion to Adolf Hitler’s own novel Mein Kompf to show the Nazi governments drilled words into the citizen’s heads through the book. “In return, he received a used copy of Mein Kompf” (Zusak 128). In this scene, people hand a copy of Mein Kompf to Hans, like they do to all citizens, to attempt bringing him in deeper to

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.

Markus Zusak’s Book Thief chronicles the life of Liesel Meminger and those who crossed her path. Through his use of Death as a narrator, a profound underlying message of the wondrous complexity of the human world is presented, balancing the ever-present forces of evil and good.

Markus Zusak, in his novel The Book Thief, set in 1939 Nazi Germany, raises many ideas, one of which is the power of words. Through various techniques including characterisation, personification, and similes, Zusak conveys messages about the power of words such as their intent, their ability to form bonds between people, and their importance as vessels of language. Many times, throughout The Book Thief, Zusak describes words as if they were living things, which gives them personality and shows us that words can have intent separate to that of the speaker. Through clever personification he gives personality and traits to words, and helps describe the feelings of characters, such as Hans’ “visible” hangover that “heaved itself to his shoulders and sat there like a bag of wet cement.”

Over the course of one’s life, it is inevitable to encounter bumps in the road. Some might be small, and some might be big. The response to these “bumps” is the development of individuals all around us. Some difficulties in our life help us realize our true hidden potential, whereas some problems help us understand life as a whole, these make us the people we are today. Living and understanding the disputes symbolises who we are. For instance, in Mark Zusak's book, The Book Thief, the reader gets an understanding of how certain conflicts create attributes in the characters and how it can symbolise an individual. The author manipulates symbolism, and conflicts to develop Liesel from a young powerless child to a woman who represents strength,

Words are one of the most powerful ways humans can connect with each other. Nazi Germany is a place where the use of words was the most powerful gift anyone could have. Since the novel is set in Germany during World War II the words back then had negatively influenced the society at that time, and positively influenced a young German girl named Liesel. In The Book, Thief Zusak tells the story of a German girl named Liesel who goes with Rosa and Hans Hubermann in Molching Germany, who become her foster parents. Liesel enjoys books and tends to steal various of them. The Hubermanns encounter a Jew named Max and do their best to help him survive the evil Nazi’s. The message

Songs are written to evoke emotion, feelings, to be relatable. Song writing, or lyricism, is an art form. Lyricists carefully craft their lyrics to not only entertain an audience, but to also evoke an emotional response whether it be happiness, anger, sadness, etc. Songs are not solely the instruments emitting a beat but the lyrics as well. The instruments reflect the tone that is set in the lyrics. Music can be only instruments but that is categorized as instrumental music. By listening to the words in a song, a person can extract its message. Two strongly contrasting songs in terms of tone, message, and context are Heathens by 21 Pilots and Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World. There are literary similarities, but there are also many differences that set these songs apart from each other and elicit differing emotional responses from the audience. Heathens and What a Wonderful World have contrasting themes related to the times from which they were written influencing each song’s meaning, but they were written in a similar way with the same intent to inform the audience.

It’s not too often that anyone lets out their emotions, most of the time people keep them bottled up inside and not even pay attention to the at all. It isn’t good for anyone to do that. Writing music can easily get those emotions out and help anyone get into a better mood. Not many people do write music, but little does anyone realize how much better it could make people feel. Not many people actually sit there and take the time to just let your emotions out, just let everything go for at least five minutes to just let out all those feelings. It could be anything from feelings of hate, anger, sadness, depression, anything. Somewhere between the words and the music you find a feeling, an understanding that makes your cares go away. Researchers have evidence that tunes can actually heal and motivate humans (Lichtman). When everyone hears a song on the radio and everyone listens to the lyrics carefully everyone could easily realize most singers and songwriters are writing all about their emotions.