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The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)

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Daisy said: " Daisy Garate
1201 English
Independent Reading Book- The Book Thief By: Markus Zusak
Reading The Book Thief, has been a good choice for me as a reader. Even though it was 500 pages, I managed to read it and collect three Criteria for Daisy Garate
1201 English
Independent Reading Book- The Book Thief By: Markus Zusak
Reading The Book Thief, has been a good choice for me as a reader. Even though it was 500 pages, I managed to read it and collect three Criteria for the book. The setting, imagery and how the title connects to the book. The main character Liesel goes through a devastating event during the Holocaust. She and her brother are being separated from their mother. While being on the train on a white cold day her little brother dies. There was nothing her or her mom could do but feel the cold and pale skin of the Little boy. Liesel stays with a family that have taken kids. Mrs. and Ms. Hubbermann. She develops a father and daughter relationship with Mr. Hubbermann. He teaches her to read and write and keep promises. In secret Mrs. and Mr. Hubbermann bought her two books for Christmas. The first book she ever stole was called The Grave Diggers Handbook. She learns the past of her foster father Hans Hubbermann and why he kept Jew Max Vandenburg hidden in the basement.
I love how the setting is very explicit during the beginning and the ending of The Book Thief. The first few chapters Death, the narrator breaks down the Nazi colors of the flag. Red being blood, white being peace and black being catastrophe/tragic. Death describes the setting when Liesel is in the train with her mother and brother being fogging, cold and white as snow. With very vivid settings in the book it feels like I'm experiencing being in that specific place. For example when on page 106 of the book Death states, “ In 1942 and early ‘43 in that city, the sky was bleached bed sheet-white each morning. All day, as I carried the souls across it, that sheet was splashed with blood, until it was full and bulging to the earth. In the evening, it would be wrung out and bleached again ready for the next dawn. And that was when the fighting was only during the day.” I could just feel being there seeing blood and clogging my nose of the rotten smell. Having my arms around me because of the cold and just standing there surrounded by bodies.
Imagery is very live throughout the book. I can see and be in each page without missing any detail because everything is so specific and detailed. what impacted me on the first page was when death said “I will carry you gently away.” That’s when I realized the person who was narrating the book was Death. In The Book Thief, one part caught my attention, “Ten meters to my left, the pale, empty- stomached girl, was standing, frost- stricken next is a signature black plane still coughing smoke leaking from both its lungs.” Personification is used in a vivid vision. I imagined the actual plane on the ground full of smoke and black all over this scene. The smoke exhausted itself. There was nothing left to give. The scene rapidly made me think of the plane dying little by little as well as the Jews in the book did.
The relationship of the title to the book makes sense. Liesel is the “Book Thief” during Nazi Germany. In Nazi Germany all the books in the country where being burnt. Liesel was always lucky to steal books. she was getting an itch of stealing books. The first book she stole was named The Grave Diggers Handbook. The Nazis would never suspect a nine year old to steal a book so strong and exclusive. With her father, Hans, she learns to read word she has never experienced to see or pronounce. While reading this book she wished there was a way her little brother was buried the right way. In the Fubrer’s (Hitler) birthday there was a place there the Nazis made a pile of fire burning books, clothes, any object that was found. Liesel saw a book; she took it. When she looked someone had seen her take it but didn’t do nothing about it. She realized it was the major’s wife that had seen her. When Liesel went to pick up her laundry as her duty from her cruel foster mother, the major’s wife at first was empty and silent. the next day she invited her in and had shown her a room full of books in which Liesel was so shocked and happy that there were different sizes, fonts, and styles of books. since Liesel was so good and lucky at stealing books, her and her best friend Rudy decided to steal food because there wasn't enough money for food in both of there families. As a fighter and thief she was strong, fast and smart while doing such crimes. She became so advanced and unlike other kids she was aware of the Nazi party and who was the Fubrer (The man who took her mother, father and little brother away).
This book met my Criteria. With so much uncensored, vivid and explicit events in this book I understood the reason why the book was titles The Book Thief. The book was a flashback then explains every little detail of her and Hans Hubbermann and why their relationship is so strong and amaranthine. The rate of this book is an A+ because of all the adventures it took me.
I actually felt, tasted, smelled death coming to Liesel even though she didn't deserve it. I learned so much of the period of Nazi Germany. This book is all history and knowledgeable that it was worth reading. ...more "

Nov 15, 2011 11:53AM · see review