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The Book Thief Essay

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Books have always been attractive to me because the make me forget my surroundings and my problems by taking me to a different place and setting. My favorite book is called The Book Thief. This book is based on history, so the content that it has really touches you emotionaly. This book should be read by anyone because even if drama and history are not your favorite reading topics the book's content has a little bit of everything. I was assigned with this book in one of my english classes, and I am really grateful to the teacher because it is the best book I have read.

The Book Thief is a great book for everyone to read because it has many things that make it stand out from the rest. Although it is about World War II, this book is not like all of the books out there that share the same topic. This book is different …show more content…

The content that it has makes you feel sad at some points of the story, but you can also laugh at little details that the author adds to the story making it light to read. There are some parts of the story were love is experienced by naive kids, which makes the readers like the characters more and more. Suspense and drama can also be found throughout the novel when death is telling you how it took some people away before knowing who the person actually is. All of the different characteristics that the author writes make the story seem genuine. It makes readers believe what is happening because good days and bad days are shown like in real life. It is hard to assign a genre to this book because it really has it all, but I would say it is mainly a dramatic novel. All of the emotions found in the book are not the only reasons for reading this book. The book introduces the characters in a way that makes you feel that you know them or that you feel related to them even when you live under different circumstances and in a different time

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