The Book Thief

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces two women who influence the life of the main character Guy Montag, a firefighter whose job is dedicated to destroying books. The seventeen-year-old neighbor, Clarisse McClellan, is mentioned first and provides the stimulus for Montag’s new outlook on life. His wife Mildred, whose personality differs completely from Clarisse’s, portrays the second woman who impacts Montag. With their differences, Clarisse and Mildred influence Montag in opposite ways…

The Book Thief and The Boy in Striped Pyjamas both symbolise and represent the aspects of conformity. Between both of these texts the common factor is that in each of these films there are always a certain group of people that are able to stand out from the rest of the crowd and resist to conform. In both texts the Nazi regime puts exponential pressure on the society and youth to conform with the rest of the crowd. This is done by representing propaganda to the youth in both films to try to…

goodreads.com/quotes/tag/power-of-words) Patrick Rothfuss is a young author who spoke the quote above during the struggle of writing one of his first books because he didn’t understand that the significance of words change his story altogether. When he grasps what words are capable of, he is able to finish and publish his book. Just like in The Book Thief, words have shown their power throughout history. During World War II, Adolf Hitler used his words to corrupt the minds of German citizens,…

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak displays the power words possess over the fate of people's lives such as Max's, Leisel's, and Frau Holtzapfel's. Unfortunately, Max's life is destroyed by hateful words: German propaganda, Mein Kampf, and Nazi speeches and rallies. During the holocaust, social stigma surrounded Jewish people. To be Jewish was to inherently be underserving of natural rights and freedoms. In Adolf Hitler's attempts to eradicate the Jewish population, he utilized propaganda to…

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces two women who influence the life of the main character Guy Montag, a firefighter whose job dedicates to destroying books. The seventeen-year-old neighbor Clarisse McClellan is mentioned first and provides the stimulus for Montag’s new outlook on life. His wife Mildred, whose personality differs completely from Clarisse’s, portrays the second woman who impacts Montag. With their differences, Clarisse and Mildred influence Montag in opposite ways with…

One example is when Liesel steals her 2nd book. The Nazi party is doing a book burning. Though the town Molching is a fake, but burning of Jewish books was not. Any books that were viewed as ‘non- German’ got heaped up in a massive pile, and the whole town was gathered to see it be engulfed in flames. Book burnings would happen before and during WWII and as we so in The Book Thief Liesel experiences one during the war. When Max is recalling the Night of Broken…

that they had been damned with. Germany was in their hands in a blink of an eye and they did nothing less but to consume it whole. Some Jews could go so far to say that they feared Hitler more than being lifted by the narrator from Mark Zusak’s The Book Thief --Death, whom was more understanding. Adolf Hitler was creating his master Aryan race,…

Good role models appear abundantly in literature to teach lessons to both the characters in the story and to the reader. Many of these role models are a parent of the protagonist. For example, Hans Hubbermann (from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak) displays how a father should act through his relationship with his adopted daughter Liesel. He always shows her kindness and love, encourages her to view people in different and better ways, and teaches her to read, which she wants to do more than…

PTSD, also known as post traumatic stress disorder, “derives from situations where persons have been involved in a life threatening event and lived to tell about it” (Calhoun). A group of individuals it affects are Holocaust survivors. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger survives the consequences of WWII. Although she was not a Jew who went to concentration camps, she still experiences trauma that would leave someone scarred for life. What she experiences during the holocaust was…

Introduction: Tomorrow When the War Began, written by John Marsden and The Book Thief directed by Brian Percival, had demonstrated the three themes Friendship, Danger/Death and .. with a similar ideas throughout their texts. Theme 1 In both texts, Tomorrow When the Wat Began and The Book Thief had clearly shown the theme Friendship throughout their story. Tomorrow When the War Began had shown the theme Friendship in their story, each member in the group has a better relationship with one…