The Book Thief By Markus Zusak

Thesis Statement: To better understand The Book Thief, one must consider what influenced the author, Markus Zusak, and how Zusak crafted his writing.
Markus Zusak stated that he “stumbled across bits and pieces over time and started using them for no apparent reason” (Stillman). He uses his parent’s stories in his writing, and his mother was actually the main influence to him for The Book Thief (Stillman). Politics influenced his writing in the main form of Hitler who had very powerful speeches that persuaded the German people to think like him (“About Markus Zusak”). He’s always valued them and says that he loves when his parents talk about the story like it’s theirs’ because it is (“About Markus Zusak”).
His father was from Austria and his