Through the inhumane, anti-semitic world of Germany - The Book Thief captures a vision on both perspectives, the beauty and the ugly of characters in the darkest of times. The Book Thief illustrates the true horrors of the Holocaust through the life of Liesel Meminger. Although it expresses both beauty and ugly in the novel, but moreso the beauty of characters in a ugly setting. Mark Zusak captures glimpses of those traits throughout the novel, through a series of perspectives. Death’s perspective, the beauty and the ugly in characters through their actions and in events.
The portrayal of beauty and brutality of humanity within the book is narrated by death, as the novel