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    In “The Book Thief” Markus Zusak, the author uses the three topics of plot events, setting and mood, and symbolism to develop his theme. Markus Zusak uses these topics to make the book complete adding details along with making the storyline interesting. These three topics, create the theme topic of death, which shapes the book into a completely different story. These convey how death can impact a person’s life. The first section that shapes the theme topic of death is plot events. The plot events

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    since a young age. She used many methods to cope with her life such as stealing, reading, and gaining knowledge. Liesel especially tried to make sense of her broken life through literature. Markus Zusak shows the power words create through The Book Thief. Even at age nine, Liesel was drawn to literature. After

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    Martin Luther King Jr. once stated, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” In The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan, Luke Castellan’s body has been taken over by Kronos, the Mighty Titan Lord who hopes to overthrow Olympus and gain control of the world. Luke wanted to join Kronos because he thought his family did not care about him, so he wanted to destroy his father, along with the other Gods of Olympus. He is met by demigod heroes Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Thalia

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    The Book Thief is a story about a girl named Liesel Meminger set in a realistically depicted German town in WWII; with the exception of the narrator. The concept of death is typically the end of a story. Every human life ends with death, however, in this story Death is the beginning of the story as well as the perspective throughout the story. While there are multiple uncanny events throughout the story, one of the biggest uncanny things in the story is the narrator himself; Death. Death is portrayed

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    1) The Main characters in The House of Hades are Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Leo Valdez, and Jason Grace. Percy Jackson is the son of Poseidon and is strong, brave, and a warrior, who is in Tartars fighting to close the Doors of Death. Annabeth Chase is also in Tartars trying to close the Doors of Death and is the daughter of Athena, which gives her the abilities of a skilled fighter, strategy, and wisdom. Leo Valdez is the son of Hephaestus, which allows him to build things, like the Argo

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    The Power of Words Liesel Meminger is a young girl that was put in the care of Rosa and Hans Hubermann in World War II, Germany. The power of words is heavily represented in The Book Thief by Liesel. They have connected her to several people and created unbreakable relationships between characters. Words have several effects on the characters. These include love, hatred, comfort, and the ability to be able to think for yourself. Words have the power to connect others and spark a revolution in

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    the Nazi’s. Liesel becomes infatuated with books and starts her journey of stealing books. She first steals the book at her brothers funeral, then she steals the book from the burning pile of jewish books, and then from the mayor's library.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Throughout the novel death appears.We start the book with death making its journey around the train and stopping right at Liesel's brother. The entire book is written in the perspective of death, and what he observes throughout his

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    The Book Thief focuses on a girl named Liesel Meminger who stays with her foster family in Munich, Germany after her biological mother didn’t want to risk Liesel and her brother’s life. Their mother was a communist, something that wasn’t well-tolerated at the time, especially in Nazi-Germany. Sadly, her brother died on the train to Munich and had to be buried next to a train track. This is where Liesel Meminger started her criminal record by picking up a book that one of the grave diggers had dropped

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    Entry 1 In the book The book thief it consists of only 5 main characters. The characters are Liesel meminger, Hans hubermann, Rosa hubermann, Max, and Rudy. This book takes place in 1939-1943 in Molching, Germany during world war ll. The big plot of this book/conflict is that. The young girl Liesel and her little brother Werner are on a train going to there new foster parents for a unknown reason at the time. But during this train ride her brother Werner dies. At his funeral she picks up a book called

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    Wes Andersons’ ‘Grand Budapest’ and Mark Zusak’s ‘The Book Thief’ both have unique narration styles which are similar in some aspects but then are different in others, this meaning that both comparisons and contrasts can be drawn from the two different forms of text. The Book Thief has a very unique narration style which is told in first person by ‘Death’, death basically guides us through the novels using different sections such as parts, characters, brief descriptors and sub – headings. Death’s

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