ADVANCED ENGLISH 1) Prescribed Text – The Book Thief a. Compose a summary/synopsis of the text (plot/themes/characters/key concerns). (100 words only) ‘The Book Thief’ by Mark Zusak The Book Thief is a story of a young german girl named Liesel Meminger in Nazi Germany during world war 2. At age nine her brother drops dead in front of her and when Death himself comes to collect his newest soul‚ he becomes fascinated with Liesel. From then on death narrates the story of a girl who moves into
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Markus Zusak is an Australian author best known for writing The Book Thief. The Book Thief is narrated by Death and is the story of Liesel Meminger‚ a nine year old German girl who goes to live with her foster parents‚ Rosa and Hans Hubermann in Molching. The Book Thief takes place in 1939‚ right before the beginning of World War 2. One of the many themes shown in The Book Thief is the theme of identity and belonging. The book portrays the struggles the characters go through to find their sense of
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wars and hostilities‚ even through tragic times beauty has shown as a light in the hardship of brutality. This is a recurring theme in the novel “The Book Thief” written by Markus Zusak‚ beauty and brutality occur in the characters Liesel‚ Rosa‚ Death revealing the confusing ways of society and humanity. Zusak won the 2014 Edwards Award for “The Book Thief”‚ which occurs in “machine” Nazi Germany. The society is facing the hardship of Adolf Hitler‚ who is trying to create a perfect world without Jews
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The Book Thief Notable Quotes and Response 1. “… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried it’s hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.” (Pg. 497) ~Its important because it shows that she’s like a child in the big world‚ a child couldn’t turn off a tap just like she couldn’t turn off the rain and change the events that had happened. 2. “She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Liesel
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Macbeth & The Book Thief: A Comparison between Ambition present in the Novels In comparing Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Zusak’s Book Thief‚ though the books deal with different time eras‚ characters and even language styles‚ there are some striking similarities between the themes in both novels. The themes are evident throughout both novels‚ these themes give a better understanding of the author’s message he wants to portray to his audience. Both books show ambition effectively in many situations
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Child Social and Linguistic Development in Nazi Germany As inspired by The Book Thief The language of 1939 Nazi Germany has taken a new tone‚ projected by a new voice of both pride and power‚ but laced with underlying blood and carnage. Yet‚ to the ears of a ten-year-old German girl named Leisel‚ these words are just a combination of letters that she can neither read nor fully understand. In Marcus Zusack?s The Book Theif‚ the time and place where Liesel lived and learned as a child had an instrumental
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The book thief is written by Markus Zusak. This book is told by death about a little girl ’the book thief’. The girl is called Liesel‚ she has to go through alot. She was sent to her foster parents with her little brother. The rough time begins already by losing her brother. It was al because their mother didn’t want them anymore. At the funeral of her little brother‚ a man dropped his book what she tooks. She took it home with her and hide it under her bed. A few days later living with her foster
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writes the exciting account of The Book Thief; the book is placed in Nazi Germany. Hans’ ability to avoid death has often left Hans’ depressed or feeling like “It should have been me” (Zusak 477). This state of mind leads him to make the decision to Shelter Max‚ who is the son of his Jewish friend‚ Erik‚ who saved his life during the war. Hans Hubermann is an uncommon person‚ one who will accept death‚ although he has miraculously avoided death three times in the book. Hans’ ability to survive and his
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unfairly treated his whole life. He couldn’t drink at the same fountains or swim in the same pools as people that were white. His whole life he was abused and unfairly treated‚ but he still learned kindness and peace‚ and eventually became famous and memorialized today. His situation is shown in some of the characters in the Book Thief. Even though there’s a lot of suffering and pain in the book‚ Markus Zusak shows how the characters grow from it‚ just like Martin did. In the Book thief‚ Marcus Zusak illustrates
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Allusion Book Reference 1936 Olympics Pg: 56 “Hitler’s Games” Non-Aryan Pg: 110 “We put an end to the disease that has been spread through Germany for the last twenty years‚ if not more!” Jesse Owens Pg: 56 “Jesse Owens had just completed the 4x100m relay and won his fourth gold medal. Talk that he was subhuman because he was black and Hitler’s refusal to shake his hand were touted around the world” Hitler Youth Pg: 40 “Ten years old meant Hitler Youth.” “Wednesday and Saturday were designated
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