What makes death such a deep and interesting character though is that he’s not the bad guy, in fact he’s far from it. And he’s right, whether you like it or not, you will die at some point, and death will be there to guide you when you do. “Here is a small fact, you are going to die.” Death states so frankly within the first pages of the book. At his funeral, she commits her first act of book thievery, the first of many, when she steals, The Grave Digger’s Handbook. She doesn’t know much of her father and she believes that he is actually dead, and she had a brother, but he died after a coughing fit on a train, the memory of her dead brother haunts her for the rest of her life. The diamond in the rough of Nazi Germany is Liesel Meminger, a 10-year-old girl who lives on the bleak, gray Himmel Street with her mama and papa. He is sympathetic yet puzzled at the actions of humans, but he can’t help finding beauty in them, sometimes. Death guides us through the tragedies of these times and provides a unique style, tone, and perspective when compared to a human narrator. There is a great abundance of death during this time, so who could provide a better perspective than death itself. These are the events that led to the holocaust, and the deaths of tens of millions of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, handicapped people, and sometimes even political opponents and rebels. If someone tried to help them in any way shape or form, they would be punished too. And God help anybody who wanted to help these poor souls. To achieve this absurd goal, he would round up everybody who didn’t fit the Aryan description, and he either killed them on the spot, or worked them to death, all the while ridding them of the necessities to live. These were dark times, WWII is just starting to heat up, and Hitler’s ultimate goal was to create a superior race of Aryan Germans. Nazi Germany and Death The Book Thief takes place in Hitler’s Germany, between 19. He was most likely influenced to choose this job because of his parents’ wishes when he was a kid to be fluent in English. As Zusak grew older and went through jobs as a janitor and a house painter, he finally settled on being an English teacher. Zusak took an interest in writing at a very young age, and he started writing fiction when he was 16. Because Zusak’s parents were illiterate, they strongly encouraged their children to learn how to read and write in English fluently. He is the youngest of four children and neither of his parents could read or write any English when they first arrived to Australia. He came from humble beginnings as the son of a house painter and a maid. Markus Zusak was born on Jin Sydney Australia.
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