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The Book Thief Text Analysis

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The Book Thief ‘You’re World’ Spoken Imaginative Text Liesel’s mother, after leaving Liesel in foster care I awoke from my sleep with the worst shock I could ever imagine. Don’t panic; calm down just open the door. Be prudent through the snow, I don’t want to drop my little boy. It dawned on me. Werner is gone, forever. How did I let this happen? I must be the worst mother in the world. Stepping up onto the platform I realised Werner starting to get heavy. My arms are starting to get pins and needles from holding him, along with my legs from standing on this train for so long. I’ve lost my husband, and now my son. How could I do this to my daughter? My poor Liesel, just 9 years old, has to stand before her own brother’s burial beside a
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is an award-winning novel surrounding the main character Liesel, and her experience in Germany throughout World War II. As Liesel grows up as the novel progresses, she discovers various things about herself and her home of Nazi Germany. Throughout the novel, Zusak uses juxtaposition to emphasize the differences between sides. Zusak most clearly demonstrates his use of juxtaposition in the duality of Nazi Germany and how hate is not everywhere, and how the power of words can be used to either save or destroy. One example of juxtaposition in the novel is the duality of Nazi Germany.

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Rudy is the sole main character to ever exist that has unlikeable traits. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel is living with a foster family during World War II in Germany. Before this, she stole The Grave Digger's Handbook, but her foster father discovered it when she arrived, and he taught her to read. Rudy is Liesel's best friend. They steal together and play together all the time.

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Liesel, known as the book thief to the audience has a distinct passion for books and how much they mean to her. Stealing book after the book becomes a hobby for the young girl whose love of books is fostered by her foster father, Hans Hubermann. As Hans teaches Liesel how to read and write they develop an

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Based on the circumstances that they are developed in, humans are capable of both good and evil. Markus Zusak's The Book Thief explores the complexities of human nature through his use of setting, symbols and characters. Different characters possess different qualities based on their experiences. Symbols are used to illustrate both the beauty and the ugliness in humanity. Also, in the novel, the setting in which the character is raised has either a negative or positive effect on the characters actions.

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Michael Rivera Ms. Burges English II PreAP 21st May 201527th May 2015 The Book Thief 10th Grade PreAP Summer Reading Assignment Part 1 Death from The Book Thief and the familiar personification of the Grim Reaper have their similarities and differences.

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Blood. Many people say that blood is thicker than water, but in this book that is not the case. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, family is shown a extremely unique way. Normally when people think of a the average model family, they think of having money, being prim and proper and usually, being blood related. Though, family in this book is based on shared hardships and having faith in each other, not by blood.

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Growing as a Character Every event in our lives happens for a reason, whether it is to learn from our mistakes or to gain experience from them. In Markus Zusak's novel “The Book Thief,” Liesel Meminger uses her experiences with living in the 1940s to learn life lessons and experience first hand the many terrible things Hitler is doing to people around her. She learns how to deal with the many obstacles that are thrown at her. Liesel grows as a character by following her step-father’s footsteps in being a kind and generous person, going through childhood with her best friend Rudy, and being aware of what is going on around her by learning from Max.

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Law, a system that is established by the government that determines what is right and what is wrong; crime or virtue, is authorized for a better society. When someone commits a crime, they are then to face the consequences of it, or meet punishment. Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, is a memoir that has many instances that exemplify crimes being executed. These crimes consisted of being a member of the Jewish population, attempting to help the Jewish people, and going against the government. Nazi-occupied Germany enacted many of these new laws for a "better" society.

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Markus Zusak has assembled ‘The Book Thief’ using a variety of narrative conventions. These include a unique narrative viewpoint, plot structure and use of imagery, all of which provide meaning to the reader. (33 words) A narrative’s point of view refers to who is telling the story. In this case Zusak’s narrator identifies himself as Death.

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At first, Liesel is illiterate, but when she steals her first book at her brother’s funeral, and is abandoned by her mother, she turns to something she

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The characters in a story. They are hard to bring to life, yet a story would be incomplete without them. I love to write, and I often don’t have troubles creating my characters. But what makes every character stand out is that special thing about each and every one of them. That’s one thing that I loved about “The Book Thief,” by Markus Zusak.

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