‘The Book Thief’ and the ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ The Book Thief focuses on a 12 year old girl, Liesel and her family who are living in Germany during World War Two. When her family takes in Max, a Jewish man that is hiding from the Nazi Soldiers, Liesel’s life is turned upside down as she struggles to keep her family’s secret and to find a place in her new world. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is also set during World War Two. It follows the story of Bruno, a young boy whose father is a Commander General of a Nazi Concentration Camp. With nothing to do, he explores and finds Shmuel, a Jewish boy that is being held in the camp.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Book Thief is a story narrated by Death and is about a young girl by the name of Liesel Meminger in Nazi Germany whose mother planned to drop her and her brother off with foster parents in the fictional town of Molching, Germany. She could no longer take care of them, and on the train ride there, her brother died. That’s when Liesel stole her first book, The Grave Digger’s Handbook. She went on to meet her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann and Rudy Steiner, her best friend. Hans and Rosa began to hide a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement until Hans made a mistake that forced Max to leave before the authorities came and found him.
Later, when the family takes in a Jewish man, Max Vanderburg, and hides him away, Leisel shares her love of words with him, too. Desperate for new reading material, Liesel, with the occasional help of her friend Rudy, steals books from a Nazi book-burning pile, that the wife of the mayor just so happens to see. The Mayors wife, with a shared love of reading, introduces Liesel to her amazing private library that Liesel will soon, frequently sneak into and take from. All seems well, but when the Allied bombs begin to fall on their street, things get even worse and death begins to close in on Liesel, her family and her friends. The Book Thief is a very memorable story.
By 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne’s father’s office building. Two years later, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945. On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank received a diary and began documenting from that moment on.
Introduction In his novel, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak writes about a young German girl who is placed in foster care during the early years of World War II by mother who is too ill to take care of her. This character is forced to face a series of events during this time of Nazi Germany and survives this horrible part of her life by finding or stealing books. The author uses Death as a narrator to help discuss the stories event, helping to bring the mind and emotions of his characters to life. Within Zusak’s novel, which appears to be related to his childhood, he writes about the theme of duality. This theme, appearing more frequently in the epilogue discusses the kindness and cruelty of the human race while blending it with the duality of characters in the Nazi-era Germany.
As sepia toned colours wash across the screen, the camera quickly zooms in to show the train is carrying Liesel and her mother and brother. Leisel looks over and finds that her brother’s nose is bleeding, and we quickly learn that he has died. From this point onwards, the story focuses on the time Liesel spends with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Huberman The Book Thief focuses on Liesel, a young girl who escapes from the horrors surrounding her by stealing books and learning to read. All the while her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann (played by Geoffery Rush and
The novel explores the impact of the Holocaust. Keller's forthright comment to Mrs Crabbe, 'One presumes they were not gassed... and then burned after the removal of gold amalgam', highlights the evil of the Nazis, and an issue that was reality to Keller. Goldsworthy gives the readers a series of snapshots to evoke images of Jewish annihilation. These images include: Keller's tattoo; Henisch's description of Keller sewing on his yellow star after the murder of his family; and the weakened Keller falling and 'dying' during a concentration camp march. Such tragic images enable readers, along with Paul, to piece together Keller’s tragic past.
Nazi Death Marches During WWII, Hitler ordered for all Jews to be taken to work camps, where they were forced to work in with little to no food. Most of the time the Jews would be making stuff for the German army such as, tools or clothing. The Jews had to have a strong spirit, or they would perish. But, towards the end of the war American troops invaded Germany, finding the work camps. Afraid of the American troops finding the work camps; Hitler ordered all work camps to be evacuated to death camps deep in Germany.
This is evident when David held her tightly and whispered “God, I’m sorry”. ‘ What could have made him want to hurt the girl, the one he really still loved?’ Therefore characters in the wave saw the positive and negative effects of The Wave but still they chose the wrong path and peer pressured those who weren’t members with incensement of social pressure they managed to get the whole school. Initially, Morton Rhue indicates the reader to the policy of social pressure in Nazi Germany. To kick off the novel , Mr Ross exhibits a video of the German Nazi and how they killed millions of thousands of Jews, taking them to concentration camps and killing them with no accurate reason just out of anger and furious. “They could see gas chambers now, and the piles of bodies laid out like stove wood”.
When he hears a newsboy shouting about a trial, he imagines he is a crack shot being interrogated in the case. As he waits for his wife to finish at the hairdresser's, Walter sees pictures of German plane and imagines he is a British pilot. Lastly, as Mitty waits outside against a wall for his wife to buy something in a drugstore, he fantasizes that he is a bold and brave man about to be shot by a firing squad. The story ends with Walter Mitty awaiting his death. At the beginning of the story “The Necklace” we meet Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class girl who desperately wishes she were wealthy.