The Book Thief Summary

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The Book Thief Essay The book thief is an excellent story about a girl named Liesel living in Nazi Germany, except the story is narrated by death. This story is very well written, instead of the story being narrated by the main protagonist or the author himself, he has death narrate the story. The author also uses detailed imagery to paint a picture in the readers mind. Although the plot originally moves rather roughly and may seem somewhat confusing at first, once you are a few chapters in it becomes difficult to put down. I believe the author uses death as a narrator in the first few chapters to help you imagine the devastation that occurred during the holocaust. The narrator also describes the color of the sky or earth to help you imagine how death sees the world. Throughout the beginning of the book Markus Zusak uses colors both literally and figuratively to describe Death’s perspective on events in the book; he also effectively uses figurative language to make the novel come to life. During the one of the first few chapters of the story Death uses the color red to describe the red sky during the firebombing that took the lives of everyone on Liesel's street. In the story I believe red represents death and blood. Death also uses black literally to describe the night sky when the American pilot crashed his plane. The color black represents death and the color of the sky. The author uses the color white literally when Liesels younger brother dies and the ground is covered in white powdery snow. I believe the white represents death and sadness. Death conflates these colors into the Nazi flag: a black swastika in a white circle surrounded by a field of red. The author Markus Zusak uses detailed images and descriptions to form a picture within the readers mind. In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, many different types of

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