Quotes

“This time I had come for a man of perhaps twenty-four years of age. It was a beautiful thing in some ways. The plane was still coughing. Smoke was leaking from both its lungs.”

“The streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road, and the bodies were stuck there, like driftwood after the flood.”

Intro

NAME THE TEXT, THE AUTHOR, THE THEME, AND THE TECHNIQUES USED TO CONVEY THE THEME, RESTATE THE QUESTION.

In his novel, “The Book Thief”, Markus Zusak communicates his ideas about the vulnerabilities of all societies to colluding in atrocities by re-framing the events of the Nazi Holocaust in the mid-20th century. Like many texts in the genre of Magical Realism, a variety of techniques are used by Zusak to help the reader to look at something familiar with new eyes. Zusak uses language features such as personification to deepen our understanding of the larger theme about the vulnerability of our society to allow for horrific acts.

P1

In his novel “The Book Thief” Zusak communicates his ideas about the vulnerability of our society, through the personification of the character Death. “I am haunted by humans”

P2

In his novel “The Book Thief” Zusak symbolises the words to show their power, which reveals the vulnerabilities in our own societies.
“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this, the Fuhrer was nothing. What good were the words?”,
this shows the reader how Zusak symbolised the words to the power and influence they held over Nazi Germany.
By doing this Zusak reveals the vulnerabilities in the German society which allowed for such atrocities such as the Nazi Holocaust. This challenges the preconceived ideas about Nazi Germany and events of the holocaust. which is revealed can occur in our modern societies and that we can unknowingly stand witness to such atrocities.

P3

In his novel “The Book Thief” Zusak often personifies the setting