Examples Of Power In The Book Thief

1. What is power?

Power is represented in the comics mainly through the conflicts and relations between the communist and American people, where the later complies with the former due to its control in economy, press, religions and military, which is exemplified by the religious and political sanctions against the enemy other, say the Christian, and the violent interrogation conducted on the assassin.

Besides imposing actual punishment, the communist also flaunts on its capability of applying sanctions, and thus, making people panic about disobedience, and creating new reality. The plot of the assassin serves as an example, through which he is forced to fabricate excuses for the party to rule out the church and consolidate the regime. More

freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, by political and religious persecution, as well as propaganda. Besides suppressing people’s liberty, the communists are accused of manipulating freedom, instigating people’s anger, and “paralysing” them to abuse their rights entitled by American constitutions, like the freedom of civic participation (labour strike). Abusing the freedom, the people violate the actual civil liberties. It’s also noteworthy that the “freedom” tolerated by the parties, however, would also be called off. When the strike is “enough”, workers’ concerns are

However, they do not intend to achieve common wealth as stated in ideology, but aim at appropriating public belongings for private use, which is pointed out by the information that “[o]nly party members got food. Starvation came to America”, and the contrast between the starved people and the feast enjoyed by the communist. Military force makes common property possible, as implied by the food collecting scene where armed soldiers are responsible for the collection and the farmer mentions “Joe Banks was sent to Alaska for holding back on his