The Power of Books In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury transports us into a dystopian world where books are forbidden. Throughout the story, the main character, Montag, faces a war against society as soon as he decides to go against the law and read the books that he has collected over the year. Later, Montag becomes part of a secret group in where each person has the job to memorize a different book and pass them along to the following generations in order to maintain humankind’s relationship with literature. Montag chooses to memorize the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, however, if I were in his shoes I would memorize The Book Thief.
Markus Zusak draws the reader into this fascinating story that takes place in WWII through Death’s point of view. The novel contains controversies that are still seen today like racism, having too much power, the importance of knowledge, and etc. Since the beginning, Death is very truthful about mortality and how sooner or later everyone will have the same ending. In one of his travelings, he finds an intriguing girl named, Liesel. He visits her every chance he gets when he has to pick someone close to where she lives. Death writes about Liesel and the war
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She then decides to steal a book to learn to read and immediately falls in love. Therefore, she continues stealing books. Then, we have Liesel’s best friend, Rudy, who wants to be the next Jesse Owens. Even though, people tell him to stop with that silly idea of idolizing a man of color. Later, we have Max, who is a Jew and is trying not to get caught by the Nazis. At last, we have Hans Hubermann who treats Liesel like his own daughter and gave shelter to Max regardless of the law. All of the characters presented in the book go through different complications such as men vs society and inner