Words Can Changes Your Views: The Book Thief Literary Essay

Words Can Changes Your Views: The Book Thief Literary Essay Wouldn’t you like to read a book where the author gives you details of his or her story in mysterious ways? Markus Zusak created a novel of a girl observed by “Death”, in the town of Mulching Germany. Zusak’s novel, “The Book Thief” included different types of literary devices like personification, metaphors and de-personification to make The Book Thief a better plot for the reader’s imagination. Even though Zusak’s novel’s novel created a world of hate it also gave a new view on how no one should judge a book by its cover. An author may use metaphors to describe his or her character’s emotions, movement or environment. A metaphor is a comparison of two unlikely objects to co-exist with each other. Zusak’s narrator in The Book Thief, death describes how Liesel was nervous by letting his readers know that “necklace of sweat had formed around (Liesel’s) throat” (Zusak 122). This gave a foresight of Liesel’s anxiety, agitation and numb affect. Zusak also captured his character’s dialogue through his own use of literary devices. “The words were thrown at (Isle Herman’s) steps” (115), when Liesel was screaming at Isle for sacking (firing) Rosa Huberam. One other way an author may use metaphors, is to tell his or her readers of the reaction to the character’s environment. Just like when Liesel “…. Lay(ed) back. (Liesel) closed her eyes and her ears held the notes” (71), expressed Zusak’s character’s emotional connection to the sounds she heard around her. Zusak allowed his reader to not only read his book but to have a more mental insight to Zusak’s characters. Personification is used to give the author’s inanimate objects such as doors, clothes and walls, human characteristics. An author can chose to also even give a spirit or myth like “death….a heart” (71), personifying death as a regular human with feelings, integrity and moral concepts. The Book Thief even gave their readers a view on how nasty