Schindler's List vs Book Thief

According to “Jakobs Story” The Holocaust was a bad place for the Jews and homosexuals and all the kind of people the Germans hated. Some people were put to death for even helping these people. Jacob states that “We were beaten constantly” (Jacob paragraph 8). This show how much these people were despised by society and the Germans. This also can show how the people suffered the these cams and had the make some kind of sacrifices.

Death states that, “I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both” (Zusak 491). This book shows us human doing things that weren’t even imaginable before this point. Many people give into ideas that were lies. But, we also watch a few people go out of their way and sacrifice everything for a man they barely even know. They do everything they can to keep him safe and alive. They work harder, the get another job, and they even steal. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, death examines the ugliness and the beauty of humans.

“The power of words, written or spoken, have life. They can change the world.” (search quotes). The power of words should not be underestimated. Liesel proves this to be true in the novel and the film The Book Thief. She uses words to develop relationships with her foster father, Hans Hubermann; Max Vandenburg, the illicit Jew in her basement; and her neighbours. In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak there is much more relationship development compared to the film The Book Thief directed by Brian Percival. This consequently causes the theme of the power of words to be less prominent in the film.

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There are many times one can see the Nazi’s brutalizing the Jews throughout the novel. From the moment the Nazi’s took the Jews as prisoners they were being mistreated. They were loaded into cattle cars, a vehicle made to transport animals, to the point where they were so full people could hardly breathe. They were sent to concentration camps where they were tortured and treated as slaves. As they entered the camps they were humiliated, SS officers yelled at them to “‘Strip! Hurry up! Raus! Hold on only to your belt and your shoes”(Wiesel 35). They were sent to cold showers and bathed in a sulfur-scented soap to be identifiable by their scent. They received only one small ration of food a day, these people were starved. Not only were they cared for like a group of worthless animals but some were never even given a chance.

The Nazi’s went day after day without feeding the Jewish individuals. When the Nazi’s gave the Jews food, it was extremely scarce while it still had to be rationed out to others. The documentary stated that “ if they were given food it would be stale bread and the guard would toss water at them.” Not only were the Jewish starved as if they were animal, but they would be called by a number on their arm rather than their name. The tattoo on their arm was a reminder that they were not people, but they were simply the number on their arm. The Nazi’s also killed thousands of people appoximatly an hour after they arrived at camp. After the Jews were killed the Nazi’s would strip the Jews of their values such as gold teeth, jewelry, etc. Whether the Jewish individuals were dead or alive, they were treated like animals with no way

How is innocence portrayed and corrupted in The Book Thief and The Boy in Striped Pyjamas?

(109) The Jews by lose their faith in their god when the Germans hung a little boy, and he was dangling there struggling to die, and a Jew next to Elie said “where is god when this boy is suffering?” Elie said back to the man “God is here, he is hanging from the ropes” ( 90) As a result Elie loses faith in hs god. Inhumanity and cruelty were shown when the Jews were stripped of their identity, hair, jewelry, and shoes. The Germans stripped the Jews of everything because they did not want to have individuality among the Jews in the camps. The Germans gave the Jews numbers that were tattooed on the arms so they could be kept up with. It is almost like in prison how they have numbers so they do not get mixed up or lost track of. Once they had numbers the Jews were told to go to the barracks and they were given striped blue and white uniforms. This was also savage because it was the middle of winter. The Jews wore very little clothing causing some Jews to die from the cold and

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 movies which our group chose to study for the assignment, were, The Book Thief and The Blind Side. We thought that both films were similar in a sense that they both revolved around reading and writing literacies. We decided to watch these films because they were the two films which we had access to and which we had read good reviews about. Both the films show the main characters literacy journeys from being illiterate to literate.

Hitler tried to use dehumanization to wipe Jews off the face of the planet. Millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis in brutal and savage ways, but some were lucky enough to make it through the selection. Although the Jews survived the selection, they were forced to live like animals. The Jews were given scarce amounts of foods and necessities, which made the Jew’s struggles even harder. The Jews had been treated as if they were animals for so long, that they started to act inconsiderately of others in some situations. Dehumanization was portrayed in multiple ways, throughout the story.

After Elie and his father are separated from the rest of their family and transported out of the ghetto, they are about to get their head shaved, stripped, beaten, and many other horrible things before they can enter one of the camps named Birkenau. “Dozens of inmates [are] [here] to receive us, with sticks in their hand ‘striking anywhere, anyone, without reason…’ Their hair clippers ‘tore out our hair’, they shaved every hair on our bodies (35).” Physically dehumanization is made clear here because first off all they are actually hitting and beating the jews, but they are also cutting off their haid. Also to cut off all their hair is against their religion therefore by forcing them to do something against their religion shows the Nazis don't care, and are stripping them of their physical religious attributes. In the same way the Jewish people were beaten they were forced to run by the Nazis. While the Russians are destroying Auschwitz the Nazis force the Jews to leave the camp and go to another camp by foot. “The Nazis yell at the Jewish people to go faster calling them ‘tramps,’... and ‘flea-ridden dogs!...’ as well as ´filthy dogs!´ Until they are no longer marching, they are running. Like automatons (85).” This physical dehumanization is made clear here because the Kapo’s are forcing the Jews to run and run all the way to the next camp. Also running this far of a distance can be very hard

This program authorized doctors to destroy those who were “undesirable.” In Berlin, a state organization was formed, which allowed doctors to examine hospital and clinic records. When the doctors found patients who were deemed “incurable,” they marked their form with a “+”, which designated them to die. Between 1939 and 1941, doctors sentenced 70,000-100,000 Germans to death through their experiments in “perfecting methods of group killings” (Fishkoff). In an attempt to expose this program, a Tel Aviv filmmaker, Nitzan Aviram, made a ninety minute documentary entitled “Healing by Killing,” in which he records the domestic euthanasia campaign and, more specifically, the participation of the German doctors (Hareg). One aspect of this documentary that makes it original from any other is the fact that with the exception of one psychologist, there are no Jews in the film. Its focus is entirely on the “domestic German implications,” which gives the story “a powerful, if self-consciously ironic, twist” (Fishkoff). This film reinforces the fact that the Holocaust was not just against the Jews, but against all that did not fit the Nazi “mold.” “I did it on purpose,” Aviram says. “The Holocaust is so well known, and I had a story not as often told. The Holocaust started in the dark basements of German hospitals. All the elements were there. I wanted to tell that German story. . . These stories aren’t known in Germany. These people had not been interviewed before.”

Every minute there is about 105 deaths and every minute there’s 250 babies born. This is the reality of the beautiful and brutal earth within the 21st century. No matter what changes we make upon our actions, history would repeat itself. This unfortunate motif is seen through texts such as ‘The Book Thief’ and ‘V for Vendetta’ which displays key contextual ideas and values that is relevant and relates to the 21st century today. These contextual values consist of totalitarianism, rebellion for freedom and oppression.

This film was drawn to show footage shot by the British Army in Nazi concentration camps in 1945. They found unspeakable horrors which are still with people all over the world today. The term concentration camp refers to the camps that people were treated in harsh conditions. They were people imprisoned for being born into a family of Jews. People were forced to work and abused. If the people different work, then they were forced to die. The first concentration camps in Germany were established by Hitler in January 1933. Hitler thought at the beginning the camps were for those who opposed the Nazi policy. These “prisons” were then built in Germany, Poland, and other parts of Europe. By 1941, they began to use the camps to kill those who were not ideal blond hair, blue eyed Christians. He began with the Jew descents. He would target the disabled people, Roma or Gypsies, Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and others were also considered worthless races, although Jews were by far the most targeted. Europe had over 9 million people considered themselves Jews. In the end, less than 3 million survived. Many of those who survived moved to the United States or other