“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 about the vulnerability 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. Through the use of different language features such as the personification of death, symbolisim of words. Markus Zusak deepens and conflicts the understanding of our preconcieved notions about the Holocaust and NAZI germany. He does this though the power of words and

Zusak use the personification of death to show how the nomalisation can sway the readers point of view throuhg the power of words. “. A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way – I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)”

Markus Zusak also shows the symbolisim of books through the journey of leasil trying to read and gaining more knowledge about the minipulation of words and power behined them.

Markus zusak uses the