Essays on The Book Thief

In literature, themes are depicted as universal, main ideas or messages that are gathered from the audience’s eyes. In Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, various themes are used to depict the cruelty and unjustness of Hitler, whose government control and moral values pose negative...

“Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it’s directed at something you never asked for and something you can’t change.” – Paolo Nutini. This describes the feelings of Jews and gypsies during World War II. Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, he...

In “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak, many characters are put in a variety of predicaments where the character has to make tough moral decisions and make courageous actions. Hans Huberman is the most honorable man in the whole book. He is a silver-eyed painter...

Throughout Maus and The Book Thief, both Vladek and Hans display different ways of affection and in the way that they engage with their children, however, they both have one thing in common which are their good intentions. Despite going through similar times, Vladek seems...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak says a great deal about humanity and its effects on Death. The book shows how humans are capable of so much atrocity. The things we do to one another can be maniacal. At the same time, there are people...

During the Holocaust, Nazis incorporated concentration camps. German Jews were treated horrendously. The Nazis were Germans, and they treated their own people wrongly. The process of transporting the German Jews to the concentration camps was gruesome. The Wiener Holocaust Library described the process of concentration...

Do you think suffering is important in a story? Suffering is a very important theme in the novel The Book Thief, by Mark Zusak. This novel is about a girl and her close ones who went through a lot of suffering or hardships. Hunger, cold,...