The novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak first starts out in a small town in Germany.It is taken in the point of view of Death, and a little girl named Liesel Meminger who loses her family in World War II, goes to live with her foster family. The book is taken place to the time where they were experiencing the holocaust with the Nazi Party and etc. As the story goes on Liesel starts to develop her own identity, starts to learn the value of words as Germany moves towards war and helps her foster family hide a man named Max, a Jew. Later in the novel, Liesel starts writing a book and learns to move on when something life changing happens.
I chose the book because of the title and that I vaguely remember it from the movie. Who wants to steal books? What's the significance of the books in the story and what's the importance of it? Once I began reading I had to keep going because it really shows the importance of words and what they mean. Shows the struggles a girl in Germany had to go through to just read a book, while now I can probably go buy one for a few bucks at a store, Liesel had to go steal one.
I did find the book realistic. It made connections to the Holocaust that I read about and went to The Museum of Tolerance in eighth grade for a field trip. It mentioned the whole segregation with the Nazis and Jews and how the worst thing to be is a Jew.
The authors tone was mostly sadness or tragedy. In the novel it started out with the tragic event with Liesel's family being killed in the War in the beginning of the movie. There was also the time where Hans was taken away to war and L
Some personification,, "Twenty-three minutes later, when the train stopped, I climbed out with them. A small soul was in my arms." Death, a thing, is personified. He does not just happen, but actively taking away souls
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