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    video games disk Fell onto my hands out of a sudden. The whole action happened really fast. I was so shocked that I just stood in the middle Of the road and heard someone calling‚" Stop thief!" but I simply don’ get what’s going on. After recalling the scene‚ I knew abruptly that I was holding the booty of the thief! I threw it on the floor violently and ran as fast as I can. The track blurred below me as I felt a surge of adrenaline. The steady thump of my footsteps echoed in my ears and beads of

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    depressed. The Book Thief and The War Horse both show that war causes depression and death. The war left many people in poverty. In The Book Thief and The War Horse‚ many of the children had to go off into the war. This caused the family to lose their workers. In The Book Thief‚ there weren’t a lot of jobs available. The Jews were customers for many companies and they were being killed by the Nazi’s. This resulted many companies losing business. In The War Horse and The Book Thief‚ many of the citizens

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    Death is our guide and narrator to ’The Book Thief‚’ by Markus Zuzak. In some ways Death seems human as we see that he experiences both sadness and joy in the novel and even gets depressed. To help distract him from his sad‚ never-ending work‚ he often fixates on the colour of the sky as a distraction from the anguished survivors of the dead. Death faces suffering with dignity. He does not enjoy his never-ending job of collecting souls but he keeps persevering as he knows he must continue for the

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    The Book Thief Essay: life lessons life lessons are important for everyone‚ we see them everywhere. Most books give us life lessons more than one most of the time. In The Book Thief we learn about morality‚ love‚ war‚ identity‚ and suffering. All of these are great life lessons to know. Within this essay I will explain to you how liesel and all her friends and family went through all their hardships and how they overcame/moved on from them. Death who is the narrator keeps us focussed on mortality

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    Jackson Jr. Examines the nineteenth century history of Germanic migration‚ seeking to find societal factors that motivated the movement of people. In addition‚ Kirril Shields utilises a fictional historical narrative‚ Markus Zuzak’s The Book Thief‚ in order to develop an understanding of how the lives of everyday folk relate to the institution of National Socialism in 1930s Germany. Shields utilises the work as a fictional source‚ paralleling with historical evidence in a way that provides evidence

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    under the main category of point of view which is means they both tell a story from a certain perspective. Also the two elements‚ are both third-person‚ and are told from a person or thing that is not contributed within the actual story. In “The Book Thief‚” the narrator is death even though he is not in the story. The book is written from his perspective and is considered written in third-person. Since they are both third-person‚ they both tell the story as they hear and see

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    Death is the narrator of this story and begins by explaining his work. He talks about how the first time he saw The Book Thief ( Liesel Meminger) was when her brother (Werner) died on a train and he took his soul. Liesel and her mother get off the train to bury Werner and this was the first time the Book Thief stole a book The Grave Diggers Handbook was found in the snow when one of the grave diggers dropped it. Her mom then took her to her new foster parents in Mulching on Himmel street. Liesel’s

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    Strength is a quality exhibited and possessed by the characters in Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. While on a chase during a rainstorm to escape a monster from taking them alive‚ lightning strikes their car and are stuck to fight with the monster itself. His mother is killed after the monster takes her in his grip and Percy furiously takes on the monster and grabs its horn to stab it‚ even if it was twice his size. Even if the monster is something nearly impossible to win against‚ he pushes himself

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    Hannah Reed November 6‚ 2013 Exploring Markus Zusak’s use of Death as a Narrator in The Book Thief Word Count: 3‚496 Abstract The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is narrated by Death who tells the story of Liesel Meminger. The reader can learn a lot about Death through his narration. Consequently this essay focuses on the question: what effect may Death’s narration in The Book Thief have on the reader and what does the reader learn about Death? Death is a metafictional and omniscient

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    The Strawberry Thief was the first indigo-discharge textile to include yellow and red. It has a repeat of four birds‚ two perched on stylized green branches‚ clearly singing lustily‚ and two beneath them or above them‚ amongst strawberry plants. Each bird carrying away

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