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“The Book Thief”
The Book Thief is a tragic war time story narrated by a compassionate death telling his 3 encounters of Liesel, a young girl living in Germany during the Second World War. Liesel steals books and learns to read and enjoys it as a sense of safety. Her and a Jewish boy hidden in her families basement befriend and Liesel is the only one to make it out of a grizzly carpet bombing of her town, kissing the boy in his dying moments.

Connor.stroeve When the rubble cleared and Liesel was identified as the sole survivor of this tragedy she was adopted by the mayor and his wife, who she‘d live the rest of her childhood with then move to Australia in her adulthood.
Reading the book thief as a teenager adds more information and shed light on a clearer understanding of how cruel the world war times were. 1mo

Connor.stroeve The main theme reading the book thief to me was the power of words and what a drastic impact it had on Liesel through this horrific time period of her life, through stories Liesel came to realize the harsh situation of her reality in this war but also the dream of a life rid of it.
The Book Thief is another great story for those who delight in reading the tragic reality of the pain and suffering of those people who lived through the war. 1mo

Connor.stroeve It‘s a great story, very immersive and addicting; it gives a new outlook to an already diverse sea of the hatred and sadness provided by war. If you like books that are informative on the lifestyle of those people who had their lives taken via war The Book Thief is a great novel to read and I entirely recommend the story. 1mo

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The Book Thief | Markus Zusak

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Death introduces himself as the narrator of this story. Death spotted “the book thief” a total of three times, on a train, coming for a pilot who had crashed their vessel, and after a bombing. The author tied three colours to each sighting, red white and black, the nazi flag.

Connor.stroeve Death starts the story abruptly when The book thieves brother Werner suddenly passes away aboard the train. While burring her beloved brother, one of the grave diggers drop a book in which she confiscates and brings home. Her mother and her both then travel to a town called Molching, where the book thief will be raised newly by her foster parents. At first she despises these new parents, but after some bonding and cigarette rolling she builds 2mo

Connor.stroeve Bond and is stable in her new life, though the nightmare of her missing brother burdens her heart.

Readers who like to indulge in graphic and darker war settings will be amazed by this atmosphere. It immediately immerses the reader, and catches the hook which provides a longer desire to read.

The book is written in third person omniscient, Death who switches from third to first person provides a moody glimpse of the young girls war stories. 2mo

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