The Book Thief By Markus Zusak
I’ve hate the words, and I’ve loved them, and I hope I’ve made them right
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
A favorite quote from a book was tough. There are thousands of good books I’ve read with staggeringly impressive quotes, but in the end, I chose the one that talked about the little scribbles on paper, aligned and spaced in a way to convey meaning and define humanity. In other ‘words’, words.
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”- Rudyard Kipling
A few months back, I had written another story for the Times of India organized ‘Write India’ competition. It’s a competition where famous Indian authors give you an opening line and some rules, based on which you must write a story. I had written three of them last year …show more content…
I think about how random, abstract, so simple and complex, how angry, beautiful and relevant words are and it blows me. After reading ‘The Book Thief’, I started to see words as so much more than a way of conversing. I started to see them as a way of breathing.
“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I have been brought up by a rather well-to-do family and have experienced no dearth affected trauma or superficial joys that would make this essay seem more gripping or powerful. My days are outstandingly straightforward; my life’s monotonicity broken only by the suppleness of a paperback or the spell of a beautiful poem. These simple words- they wash over me in a multitude of inchoate waves, drowning me in unknown depths of unheard knowledge, unfound places, unctuous lies, helping me breathe the truth of the simplicity of the complex human nature. And these simple words- in many ways, create me. And I redeem the justifiable crimes of my humane-ness by trying to create
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
A favorite quote from a book was tough. There are thousands of good books I’ve read with staggeringly impressive quotes, but in the end, I chose the one that talked about the little scribbles on paper, aligned and spaced in a way to convey meaning and define humanity. In other ‘words’, words.
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”- Rudyard Kipling
A few months back, I had written another story for the Times of India organized ‘Write India’ competition. It’s a competition where famous Indian authors give you an opening line and some rules, based on which you must write a story. I had written three of them last year …show more content…
I think about how random, abstract, so simple and complex, how angry, beautiful and relevant words are and it blows me. After reading ‘The Book Thief’, I started to see words as so much more than a way of conversing. I started to see them as a way of breathing.
“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I have been brought up by a rather well-to-do family and have experienced no dearth affected trauma or superficial joys that would make this essay seem more gripping or powerful. My days are outstandingly straightforward; my life’s monotonicity broken only by the suppleness of a paperback or the spell of a beautiful poem. These simple words- they wash over me in a multitude of inchoate waves, drowning me in unknown depths of unheard knowledge, unfound places, unctuous lies, helping me breathe the truth of the simplicity of the complex human nature. And these simple words- in many ways, create me. And I redeem the justifiable crimes of my humane-ness by trying to create