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    “The Book Thief” presented a story filled with various themes that comprised a powerful plot line. Although there were many themes in the story, there was one that stood out to me more than others. In the process of reading the book, the theme of suffering affected me the most. The definition of the word suffer is to experience or be subjected to something bad or unpleasant. Different characters within the story are subjected to dreadful feelings and are therefore suffering. Through my analyzation

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    of “The Book Thief,by Markus Zusak is interesting because it tell the time where the main character Death (Narrator) first time seeing the book thief on a train. The book also shows that it is between a first person or third person point of view. The book grabs your attention as which it has sad moments where Wener (Liesel Brother) Pass away and have to get off the train to bury his body. This book is dated back in Sydney Australia in 1975. Character Analysis In the novel The Book Thief, by Markus

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    The Book Thief ´s author Markus Zusak, tries to convey the theme “ the power of words” to the reader. He shows how words can affect people’s lives in a positive and negative way. He used the characters to interpret and develop the theme of this book. By analyzing the text, the reader can identify the theme that Markus Zusak tries to convey through the characters and their diction whether it is positively or negatively. First, one of these characters that Markus Zusak uses to interpret and develop

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    The Book Thief Suffering

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    Bohemian Rhapsody- Suffering Throughout the book, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak tells the story of a young ten year girl who lived during the Nazi regime. Everyone who was living in this time era went through coldness, hunger,emotional and physical abuse, guilt, the horror of the battlefield. Despite the protagonist and her family suffering in worse way considered to the character from the song, Bohemian Rhapsody, they both go through pain, loss, and suffering. In bohemian Rhapsody he had just

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    2.9 Response Paper 2: The Book Thief A book that I had recently had time to read was than The Book Thief, A Historical-Fiction Novel written by Markus Zusak released on the 14th March 2006 worldwide and during 2005 in Australia. This text revolves around a young German girl that was abandoned by her father and subsequently sent off to a foster home with her brother as her mother was a communist and feared for her life. Her 6-year-old brother (Werner Merminger) had suddenly died on the train ride

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    Reading Response to The Book Thief The book’s title is The Book Thief. The book’s author is Markus Zusak. The Book Thief was published in 2005. The book is about a girl who names Lisle. She came to a new german family. She can not read the book, but she interested in the book. So her new father was trying to teach Liesel how to read. But one day, A Jewish person who name Max escaped to her house. He was happy to see Lisa, and he also want to help her to read. When Max leaves, the town they lived

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    The Book Thief Analysis

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    “What is the theme of The Book Thief?”, lets us give our opinion on the book. Even though it’s not fully our opinion, we still get to state some of our opinion in our writing. This is my first time writing about a prompt like this. What I think the theme of the book is that Liesel steals books, her family keeps Max in the basement, and the kindness of words. Why I think a main part of the book is that Liesel steals books. She didn’t just steal books from a bookstore, she steals books that will

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    In the novel The Book Thief Markus Zusak uses many different characters, experiences, and control factors to greatly illustrate the life of a young girl and her book living experience through the Holocaust. Speaking of this young girl brings us to the main character is well as the protagonist of The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger. Liesel Meminger is a young girl who is given up by her mother to foster parents, the Hubbermanns, when she is no longer able to be cared for. When first arriving to a

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    The theme in , “ The Book Thief “ by Markus Zusak , is the power of communication and how it influence people . Liesel did not know how to read at first , but then she begins learning to read and starts craving different terms . Her need for words made her steal books because it was her safe haven that kept her mind off the war that was going on . At this time , Adolf Hitler used words to brainwash Germans to do brutality things on the innocents . When Liesel finds out about this , she realized it

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    In the book thief the directed by brian percival. Brian percival portrays the film technique camera work in very interesting ways. In every scene a different camera shot is used but they are not used at random. Each shot has a purpose even for a character, idea or a setting in the film. The different shots in the book thief helped me understand more about the main character Liesel Meminger. Liesel is a young girl who lost her little brother and her mother gives her up as soon as her brother dies

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