The Book Thief Narrative

The Book Thief, written by an Australian author, Markus Zusak, is a devastatingly powerful historical-fiction novel that bears several re-readings. Being one of the greatest, most divinely-written epilogues in my school library, The Book Thief, is a soul-shattering, thought-provoking story that undoubtedly can be recommended to the young and old alike. This poignant, prolonged, but achingly sad book, is the pinnacle of contemporary historical-fiction, poised to become a classic. Phenomenally breathtaking, and inspiring, bringing nothing but anticipatory dread, this lyrical, surreal book, though depressingly morbid at times, was my “gateway” to historical-fiction. The tribulations and trials provided in the novel, had inevitable passion, perspective

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.

Suddenly the growling was even more intense. It was menacing. Turning around thorough the glass window and darkness of night Caroline saw a pair of icy blue illuminating eyes staring back at her. Before she could calculate what was going on a large black wolf came through the glass window shattering it and a sharp pain dug in her neck and every thing went black.

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.

There are many books that will teach you important lessons. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak there are many lessons to be learned. Some of the lessons that the book teaches is that courage is the key to achieve anything, fear can be distracted, and Death’s kindness. These lessons are important to learn.

There was a distinct smell of blood, fresh blood, and a motionless body lay in the ally.
There had been yet another attack, this was the 5th person to be killed, the same way, and same murderer, their plan had worked, this could only mean the invasion had begun.

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.” - Markus Zusak. This is a quote from my favorite book, The Book Thief. The book thief is about a foster child, Liesel Meminger, living in World War II Germany where death is abundant and books are scarce. In grade 7, the holocaust was a major topic in the syllabus and through the research we did and books we read, we could recall information about what had happened in our sleep. With the many books our classroom library had to offer, I chose the book thief for the mystery you would only unveil after getting to the very last sentence. However, you could bypass how long they made you wait to reveal the surprise as each page brought both tears and laughter. When I got to the last page, I could not

What are you afraid of? Is it the sound of slithering snakes, prickly tickly spiders? Or is it worse? Is it the glistening thoughts of our reality? Maybe, just maybe, it’s that first glimpse of the afterlife in which you finally close your eyes perminitaly and see nothing. Darkness. Wait, do you see something? In the novel “The Book Thief” by Marc Zusak, that is a day to day challenge many people recognize. When Death, the narrator of the novel, enters the life of Liesel Meminger a 9 year old German girl with the struggle of surviving during the first year of coping without a mother and brother soon becomes a world win full of colours, bomb threats and the bitter truth that everyone will soon enough die by the end of the novel. Because of the

As The Book Thief continued, I started to enjoy reading it. I was thinking in my head, this is gonna be one of those lame nonfiction books.From the prologue. The reason I made that first assumption was because, the prologue was hard to understand, boring, confusing, I would also say that it was very unique. There are a lot of very bold and courageous acts produced by different characters. There are a lot of little acts of courage that foreshadows the main events.

Markus Zusak made an interesting choice, by having Death narrate his book, The Book Thief. In this essay, we shall find the effects of that, and the difference Death is portrayed in this book versus other literatures characterization of death.

August Abt 8/10/15 Honors English 9 Summer Reading The role of books in both novels is slightly different but both come back to a general theme that is used in both novels. In both novels the authors use books as something that provides knowledge to a community but the government is trying to suppress this knowledge.

In the novel “The book thief” by Markus Zusak involves the maturity of core characters due to World War II. In the text, Nazi Germany plays a huge role in the town and how they are treated and act. Based on a historical time period individuals dealt with many issues of religious diversity and diversity in general.The key points in the story include the hardships of Liesel Meminger along with her story living in Nazi, Germany. There were also hardships for the whole family that took care of the young girl. These hardships were most commonly caused by the war in Germany.

Abruptly awaken in the dark in a cold sweat, his maroon reds eyes piecing through the darkness wide open, he unintentionally fell asleep. Distance screams fading in his ears, images of burning buildings, people fleeing in terror in every direction, the smell of fresh blood and sound of clashing swords. A nightmare, something that happens at random after a successful kill.

This drawing represent the part where Ethan got kidnapped by someone he didn't know. Ethan got kidnapped while he was in the cemetery. He was put into a car that drove off out of the city. The man took Ethan into the woods. Ethan recognized that he was the men who pointed him in the alley days before. The men wanted Ethan cameras and Ethan didn't know why he wanted his camera but the grabbed Ethan's camera of his bag and destroyed. Ethan was terrified his hands were tied, he couldn't do anything, he continued on crying. Moments after Ethan untied his hands by cutting the rope in a sharp rock. Ethan grabbed a shovel and hit the men on his head while he was trying to get his gun out his car. Ethan grabbed the gun and keys from him and throw

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.