Shared Humanity In Markus Zusak's The Book Thief

Moreover, Daisy is also physically isolated from others. This can be evidenced when she asks Nick “do they miss me?” (15). Nick has just recently arrived in West Egg, so Daisy and Tom have invited him over for lunch at their house. Upon hearing that Nick had taken a stop in Chicago on his way East, Daisy asks this question of those who she knew when she lived there. This quotation demonstrates Daisy’s physical separation from her friends and family, and her lack of contact with those whom she cares about. Thus, Fitzgerald’s efforts to bash women is apparent in his treatment of Daisy’s social isolation, due to the fact that, although isolation can be the cause of many serious psychological traumas, Fitzgerald instead decides to manipulate it in order to illustrate her as a character who is shallow, and obsessed with her reputation. Hence, psychological and physical segregation is used to belittle both Myrtle and Daisy in the

Death is a very well-known figure that is feared by many in all countries. He is suspected of being cruel, disturbing and all synonyms of horrifying. Death is inevitable and that is the most fearing aspect of his persona. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Death is made to seem or resemble humans. Effectively using the narration role, Death introduces a unique description and definition of colors in which he uses as a tool to effectively engage the readers to the events occurring throughout the book. He also demonstrates him personal and different experiences as well, mostly about soul gathering and the implications of WWII that have affected him. On the contrary to Death’s dead, appalling and scary nature that many interpret him to be

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.

On the other hand Tom and Daisy’s relationship was incredibly flawed, however they suited each other in terms of social class. They both had the same shallow views, as Nick states in the end, “they were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed things up and creatures and retreated back into their money and vast carelessness.” The ending of the novel reinforces the idea that in such a morally corrupt society only relationships concerning those of the same social standing could work even in the slightest, and even so those relationships were doomed to a certain extent.

The Book Thief’s main character is Liesel Meminger throughout the book she develops more and more by opening up and doing new things. At first she was very shy and would not do hardly anything for example, “It took nearly fifteen minutes to coax her from the car. It was the tall man who did it. Quietly.”(28) That is when she first got out of the car “There was the gate next, which she clung to.”(28) This shows all the more how shy she was at the beginning of the book when she first arrived on Himmel Street. Then as the book goes on she starts to adopt her foster-mother, Rosa or Mama’s style of speaking and starts cussing some when talking to her best friend, Rudy and even the mayors wife when she terminated her mothers washing and ironing

Markus Zusak in his novel, 'The Book Thief', explores ideas about human beauty and human brutality using the narrative voice of Death. Beauty expressed through the power of words and acts of kindness. Brutality is illustrated through the concept of Nazi leadership as well as the destruction of society. Death narrates the novel and is perplexed by humanity's attitude to beauty and brutality.

Daisy and Tom are bereft of these dreams. Daisy at one point in the novel suddenly rebelled, realising that she did not love the man she was going to marry despite his rich gifts, and Jordan describes her struggle " "Tell 'em all Daisy's change her mine. Say ‘Daisy's change her mine!' " She began to cry -- she cried and cried . . . She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow" (page 83). Society in the form of Jordan Baker was there to spread on more lies to cover the rough spots, to make the surface elegant and hope no one had depth enough to look beneath it.

in a negative light from the narrator’s perspective, Daisy has different priorities that make him

Daisy’s selfish nature plays a vital role throughout the novel as it is the main cause of her rash decisions which slowly

Daisy finds out that Gatsby achieves his wealth by bootlegging and questionable activities which scares her. Daisy chooses Tom to have a normal, pampered life, she is afraid that she could get hurt if she got intertwined in Gatsby’s business. In this passage: “Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table...He was talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement. They weren't happy...and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said they were conspiring together.” it is believe that Tom and Daisy are talking about their plans for what comes next and moving out west, as they then leave shortly after. This shows that Daisy would rather have a comfortable, safe marriage, rather than be with someone she loved and constantly have the fear of being at

“The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.(Rosoff 64)” Daisy knew the entire time that she was doing something that to most people would be wrong and weird, but she made a choice that made her happy. The choice may confuse the audience, but it is a very important choice that definitely impacts the remainder of the story. Daisy uses her love to keep herself and Piper alive in hopes she will get to see and be with Edmond again. This leads into the other shared humanity trait shown in the novel;survival. Once Daisy and Piper were separated from Edmond, Isaac, and Osbert, Daisy had to do whatever she could to help Piper and herself survive and get back to their family. Eventually they were forced to live in a barn for a week after they discovered that the enemy was going house to house killing innocent civilians. (Not finished)

Humans, the most advanced species of the universe, fueled by politeness and hatred. For centuries new mothers wonder what their young sprout is going to grow and be, “I wonder if my child will be a flower or a thorn bush.” We grow today, grow from soil, we grow up to be a flower. Are humans born good or bad, that is a statement that exploring will take years of research and test on new lives brought into the world, exploring the flower is what will lead us to discovering the beauty of life itself. Growing up a flower, today life is started from a seed and is grown to a flower, everyone buds out and lets their petals fall.

In the novel The Book Thief written by Marcus Zusak, Max found himself in a situation where the propaganda that Hitler has set affected his life in many ways. With the help of Liesel’s words and reading and the care that the Hubermanns gave, Max grew stronger and he had the courage to stand up and protect himself from the force that Hitler had set against the him and the Jews. By having the his power of will, Max was fighting Hitler in his own circumstances even if it 's just in his imagination.

The narrator, Nick is grouping together the women of the party and describing their persona all in the same way. The men of the party are comforting them, as they are providing protection and masculinity to the “swooning” and “puppyish” women. The women are following the social norm/stereotype that men must be their protectors because they are such frail beings and must be accompanied by a man. These societal standards were represented through the specific character, Daisy Buchanan and her actions throughout the novel. Daisy has intentional ignorance of her husband, Tom’s multiple affairs showing her lack of empowerment and fear of disrupting the gender roles. The woman was meant to be the housewife, caring for the children, and staying home. Daisy believes women should not be intelligent and applies these expectations to her own daughter: "I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right, ' I said, 'I 'm glad it 's a girl. And I hope she 'll be a fool—that 's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 116-118). It is evident that Daisy was disappointed by the gender of her baby, and thinks little of what a woman can be in

“Here is a small fact: You are going to die”(Zusak 3). The Book Thief, a historical fiction book by Markus Zusak, is narrated by Death. The novel takes place during the 1930’s and 40’s in Nazi Germany and follows 9 year old Liesel Meminger, who death refers to as “The Book Thief.” After her father, mother, and then brother are killed, Liesel becomes an orphan and is taken in by Hans and Rosa Hubermann in Molching. Throughout the book, she meets many people including the Mayor’s wife, Isla Hermann, and Max Vandenburg, a Jew who is hiding from the Nazi’s in the Hubermann’s basement. Although Liesel’s life is filled with death and loss, she ends up surviving an air raid on her street and after the war, she is reunited with Max who survived