The Book Thief By Mark Zusak Analysis

In Mark Zusaks “The Book Thief” one element of narrative tension that stands out is uncertainty. Zusak uses uncertainty throughout the whole story but a lot in the second part. At the beginning of “The Arrival On Himmel Street” Zusak states, “With one eye open, one still in a dream, the book thief -- also known as Liesel Meminger -- could see without question that her younger brother, Werner, was now sideways and dead” (Zusak 20). This is uncertainty because we don’t know how or why her brother had died. Also why they were on the train going to wherever they were going in the first place. Lastly because we don’t know why he had only died out of everyone else on the train. An additional place you see uncertainty is once they first arrive at