Having to live with fear your whole life, doesn't seems very cool does it ? The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a historical fiction novel. This novel is a great novel for 9th graders to read in class or even to read in their own time, however it will take a few time to read it . Zusak the author of the book uses great style to tell the story by using complex and interesting language . The Book Thief's narrative is Death you might think that it's weird but thrust me is a great novel that people of all ages will enjoy it !
Liesel Meminger (protagonists) a 15 years old girl , lives in Nazi Germany with her fosters parents after her mom is force to give her and her brother on adaption . After her brother dies on their way , she arrives to her new home with her foster parents Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann . Rosa Hubermann is a woman who seems like she doesn't have compassion for anyone will show us that she is the one that most worries about others trough out the book . On contrasts , papa (Hans Hubermann) and Liesel relationship become one of the most strong and lovely relationship that will make them inseparable friends but Liesel will love him like a father . Hans Hubermann is a tall kind guy who fought on the war and survived only because of a accordion . Throughout the novel you will see a change of personality of each of the characters. Just for a little taste Rose Hubermann will said the most meanness things to the ones that she loves because that's how she shows her love to them .
As papa show Liesel how to read because Liesel passion is to read and she sees books of something she needs to survive in live. As time past, Liesel become friends with Rudy Steiner a kid with yellow hair that will be with her in the good and rough times . They will become very close to each other that Liesel will fall in love with him.
This novel takes places during war world 2 so you can imagine that not all of this is happiness on contrast happiness is not a big part of the book . Death is our narrative because on the time their will be alots of deaths , deaths of Jews , soldiers, or people dying because of the bad economy . This times were Germany's hardest time . Economy was bad and Jews were were killed by Nazis more and more every day. Max Vandenburg, a Jew that will be a huge part on Liesel life. Vandenburg , a Jew that has been hiding to survive and have successfully made his way . He needs to go and live at Hubermann's house to hide. As time passed Liesel and home become friends and get along with each other people in some way or another they have been Throughout the same things. The Hubermanns live in Himmel Street a street they is very dangerous to hide a Jew . Liesel have a very difficult time she suffered when her brother died, when her mom left her, when her papa was force to go to war, and at the end all of the people that she loves dies when Himmel Streets is bombed .
The Book Thief has effected me because you learned that children of our age have and are suffering a lot . Teenagers now days worried a lot and sometimes think that their lives are miserable without thinking of how bad other struggle to survive . Throughout this book I learned that you need to appreciate why you have without any regrets . At the being of this book I thought this book was going to be boring and not interesting because of the time it took place and of its cover . However , as you can see "you should never judge a book by its cover " . Even though the author's language is sometimes hard to understand you will like it a lot. This book is not related to my life because my life is not as complex so theirs and maybe because of all the new things we have now . I recommend you this book, you will find it very interesting and will learned things about others that you never thought people will go throughout it.
