Examples Of Emotion In The Book Thief

Emotions From Hell Emotions can control one’s thoughts. Thoughts lead decisions as one’s decisions then lead to character, which controls life. The Holocaust can be what some might call “hell”, but the reader can discover the wise words in The Book Thief that helps the readers find light where it is the darkest. Markus Zusak, the writer of the daunting story of The Book Thief, uses imagery to represent beauty and brutality and emphasises great emotion that leaves the readers feeling loved, tormented, and vulnerable. To start, love, the beautiful word that can represent happiness, sadness, guidance, or even guilt, it takes strength to find love in a place of hate. Liseal Meminger states how she hates Hitler, but it is dangerous to say that

Max, the jew that was hiding in Liseal Meminger’s basement, was on a death march until Liseal tripped attempting to talk to him, “the Jew, the nasty Jew helped her up [,] It took all of his strength,” (Zusak 510). Max is starving and in unimaginable pain. Yet, he still helps the healthy girl up, out of pure kindness and his love for her. Sometimes, war can just be brutal, so brutal that “blood streamed till it was dried on the road, and the bodies were still stuck there,” (Zusak 12). It gives the readers a different perspective, a perspective of the blood escaping the bodies. The bodies are dead and they are just stuck there but, the blood gets to escape. Liseal Meminger had death following her almost everywhere she went, figuratively and literally, “she knew me and she looked me in the face and she did not look away,” (Zusak 490). It is almost depressing that a girl, not even mature enough to be on her own, constantly surrounded by death, almost everyone she knew and loved has been lost to death. Somehow, it can also be shown as how Liseal has grown, and is almost standing up to death. Torment, the pain in death, can show brutality for sure, but also beauty for how the love is