"The book thief"
By: Markus Zusak
Overview:
In our holocaust project, I was curious to re-read the book thief and see and learn things my twelve year old self didn't comprehend or catch the first time. Much like the first time, I adored the little book thief herself, Liesel Meminger and her shy yet spunky personality and fell in love with Rudy Steiner, who idolized the great Jessie Owens admits nazi Germany. It was a new take on a holocaust book and proved to be much more than that. Death, who is the narrator, painted us a world of purely colors, and the readers began to understand the deeper meanings of a tomato soup sky, the colors we wear on our sleeves, and the undeniable power we hold in our words. We saw how our actions create a domino effect and the people we were raised to be and the people we choose to be. It is a book of friendship and grief and love and forgiveness and war and good and evil and above all, it is a book of human nature and the story of how a little girl found her voice. |