Story Behind The Book Thief

Over the course of reading The Book Thief, readers will come to know about Markus Zusak’s constant use of descriptive words, figurative language, and character plots throughout the story. In one particular part of the novel, Zusak shows an example of all three of these points to support one of the many central themes he gives us. While Liesel is standing in front of the burnt offerings near the town hall and the square after a Hitler rally, she sees a book underneath all of the hot ash. This moment allows Zusak to go into explicit detail to make a point about the significance of the moment to the reader. In The Book Thief, Zusak uses vocabulary that evokes recklessness and stealthiness, personification about books, and Liesel’s internal

The Book Thief is set in the time of World War 2 where the Holocaust is present and disaster is everywhere. Throughout the story, Liesel, the main character, learns that words are extremely powerful and hold the ability for people to use them for good or for evil. Among the disaster and altercations, Liesel uses her literature to comfort her and make herself more powerful due to her knowledge, which demonstrates the theme of the story, the comfort and power of literature and words softens the pain of loss.

In The Book Thief, a work of historical fiction, written by Markus Zusak introduces the main character Liesel Meminger, the reader starts to see how she keeps having many conflicts but always stays positive. Liesel has many conflicts, for example her brother dies early in the book and that shapes the way she is. Later on Liesel steals books and that makes her happy because the first book she stole was the grave digger's handbook and that is how she remembers her brother. Liesel steals and reads books this is how she finds happiness with all the bad things going on around her. In the end of the book most of the people she loves die and it is hard for her to find happiness again. The author uses the setting and point of view to express theme and to make the reader feel sympathy; He uses this because with the theme of finding light in the darkness, deaths perception, and the setting of Germany makes the theme clearer.

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.

The Book Thief has had a place on my “To Read” list for quite some time now. For that reason I decided to read another. I knew that if i hadn't read it by now, it wouldn't get the dedication it should. I turned my focus toward a book that spoke of adventure and discovery, that promised to teach me of the world as well as myself. I continued to read The Alchemist because it did just that with its beautiful writing style and enchanting tale.

“Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” - Pearl Strachan Hurd. The Book Thief is a story about Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who lives with Hans and Rosa Hubermann after her mother was forced to give her away. I believe the most important example of the power of words in The Book Thief is Max’s word shaker story because of Hitler and Liesel’s influence.

As the Book Thief comes to an end, a new book thief is revealed. It is death, or the narrator that has been following Liesel around for most of her life. The book she steals is called the Book Thief and it was by Liesel Meminger. Death finds this book being thrown in the back of a garbage truck, but she saves it. The book got there when it was forgotten on the road after Liesel saw her mama, papa, and Rudy lying there dead. The book was picked up by a man and thrown in the back of the truck. The whole book that was just read was death reading the book she had stolen and adding what she had seen during some of the parts. Liesel wrote the book as an autobiography and told of how she had stolen, her life, but when death tells the story it

In my opinion, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak was a very interesting book with a great plot. It is actually one of the best books I have ever read. It shows that words affect life more than we may realize. From the books Liesel stole, to the book that lead Max to the Hubermann's, words and books really do have a major impact on life, both positively and negatively.

The thrilling story of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak contains intrigue, a bit of romance and some mystery. This book is considered a contemporary classic because it is loved by many people and can stand the test of time. This New York Times bestseller is about a young girl named Liesel who lives in Nazi Germany and loves books from a young age. She is on the way to Munich with her mother and brother to meet foster parents because her mother is unable to care for them. The brother dies on the train and they’re forced to exit the train to bury him.

The title of The Book Thief fits the book very well. First of all, it sounds intellectual, which lets people know the type of reading they are about to be doing when they sit down with this book. If someone was looking for a light, fun read, this tells them not to pick this book up. Also, the phrase “the book thief”, comes back many times within the novel, whether when Death is referring to Liesel, or when Liesel titles her autobiography after her unknown nickname.

“When life robs you sometimes you have to rob it back” – Liesel Meminger The Brian Percival film The Book Thief follows a young girl named Liesel Meminger who lives with her adoptive family in Germany during the Nazi Era. She discovers her love for reading from her adoptive father, begins “borrowing books” and sharing them with a Jewish man named Max. Max teaches her how to write and how to use her eyes to tell a story.

My name Nina Pandya, and I am a freshman at St. Andrew’s Priory. In my English class, we read the Book Thief for a summer assignment. At school, we made a KWL (Know, Want to Know, Learned) chart about you and your life. I found answers to the questions I had, but I still have some unanswered questions that I would like you to answer. Our job now, is to write a letter to you, in hope for an answer.

In the fall of 2009 a series of break ins in Rye, New York had residents in this sleepy little town in Westchester NY living in fear. Thieves were breaking into cars, stealing the garage door remotes, and gaining access to homes while residents were away at work. Car doors were left unlocked, so thieves just simply opened them up, stole the clicker, and waited patiently for the homeowners to leave the following morning; unaware that they were about to be robbed.

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.