In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, narrative tension is shown in many different forms but only a few stuck out the most to me. For example, one of the ways Zusak gathers the tension in the book is in part one. Zusak adds in a part that includes foreshadowing that builds the narrative tension. Zusak writes, “Their was something black and rectangular – lodged in the snow. Only the girl saw it. She bent down and picked it up and held it firmly in her fingers.”(Zusak 214). This shows uncertainty because the reader understands what the object looks like but is still uncertain on what the object truly is. Even though I do not know what this object is, specifically, I can guess and try to figure it out using the details. As the reader, all I would