Essays on The Book Thief

The Book Thief is a historical novel written by Australian writer Markus Zusak and published in 2005. The Book Thief is a novel narrated fully by a compassionate Death character who tells us about Liesel, a young girl growing up in Germany during World War…

Do you think suffering is important in a story? Suffering is a very important theme in the novel The Book Thief, by Mark Zusak. This novel is about a girl and her close ones who went through a lot of suffering or hardships. Hunger, cold,…

The death of Werner, Liesel’s brother, further cements Death’s belief that pain is an unavoidable part of living. Liesel’s younger brother dies as a result of frigid temperatures on the train journey to their new foster parents’ home in Molching, Germany. Every night, the pain…

The grave digger’s handbook The Book Thief started with a girl named Liesel Meminger, who travelled to her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, with her mother. She unfortunately lost her brother, Werner, on the way and as she was by his grave, Liesel picked…

The Book Thief published in 2005 is Markus Zusak’s fifth and most popular novel. Markus Zusak was born in Australia to German-Austrian parents who fled Germany at the time of the Second World War. The Book Thief is written in a German perspective. It is…

The book I chose to read over the summer was “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. I chose this book after reading “Resistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief”, an article on LitHub. I had originally watched the movie when it…

Setting The Book Thief takes place in Nazi Germany from 1939-1943. The bulk of the story takes place in Molching, a suburb of Munich. The main characters live on Himmel Street. Himmel Street is very tight knit. The children and the adults all seem to…

When coming upon a new book, watching a movie, or hearing a new song, a person is exposed to many components of the literary theory list without even knowing it. Through the traits of this list, a piece of literature can leave a reader astounded….

The competitors took their marks. Butterflies fluttered through the stomachs of every runner, except for one who was very confident. The competitors got set. The confident man could feel the eyes of Hitler lurking upon him. The competitors took off. In the blink of a…