“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it had pulled it on, the way you pull on a jumper.” “boy’s spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream.” “A packet of souls.” “The day was grey, the colour of Europe.” In his novel, “The Book Thief”, Markus Zusak communicates his ideas […]

Markus Zusak writes his novel “The Book Thief” using conventions of magical realisim. In this novel the power of words is presented through the manipulation of insignificant events or details. These supposed insignificant events or details, like the painting over Mien Kamf in white paint, Lesiel stealing her first book and . These revel the […]

Wake up, early morning, its winter in a small southern town. The warm embrass of the sun still eclipsed by lofty mountain ranges, a utopia for a thick darkness to enshrouded the township. Fields filled with anticipation, torn trees loomed above as hungover housholds slept off night of regret. ” Wake up ” The selective […]

It is winter, early morning in the little township, chilled and blackfrosted, the plants and bushes stiffly frozen, the football field icy, the trees carrying crystals of sharp ice up to the wet sodden air-hugging mist. Listen.  It is morning quietly roving the main road, the moist melodic streaming mist rising over the garage and […]

Looking around nothing, looking up nothing, the blank canvas filled with useless knowledge that guinea pigs follow to strive for a job in a home for one because inside they know they are really alone. A rope, I follow it, I look down at the stool. “Theo, Theo” music plays in the background then theo […]

In the novel ‘The Book Thief’ written by Markus Zusak, Zusak uses the genre of magical realism to display the power of words and the impact it has on society. Magical realism is a type of genre that is used to display a realistic picture while also having magical and surreal elements. Magical realism can […]

In ‘The Book Thief’ Markus Zusak uses Magical realism as a genre to expose an idea that the reader may not have apprehended by altering the reality of the book. Markus Zusak does this by adding into the book imaginary places or people without notice of the readers to show the persuasiveness of words. By […]

Book burning – Book burning during WW2, Germany 1939 – 1942. Was used to sensor the religious group called the Jews which in Nazi Germany at the time was thought to have been lesser people or scrum. The book burning during WW2 was used as a way of censoring German people from Jewish literature and […]

“In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it all right. You see ? Even death has a heart.” Markus Zusak uses death to show the perspective of WW2 through the eyes of the ‘book thief’. From the quote above “of my dark-beating heart” we can see how death has human […]