Should high school classrooms be required to read the
book thief? I say yes. It is an amazing piece of literature with one of the
best settings, characters, and plot that you can find.
The book is set
on the fictional Himmel Street in Molching Germany where all the kids (Rudy
Steiner, Tommy Muller, a few others and now, leizel meminger) spend their days
playing soccer racing and scheming like all kids at their age. Himmel Street is
where most of the book takes place and while you are reading you will forget
where you were and focus on where you are, Himmel Street, and there is no other
place you’d rather be.
But you are not there alone you are hanging around with Rudy leizel and the rest of the gang whether you are scheming to steal apples helping Rudy win leizel’s affection or just trying to survive the law of the fuher you will most definitely enjoy yourself while doing it with this great cast of playful dramatic and even loving cast of characters.
What you do while you are there is pre determined but it doesn’t feel that way It feels like you are just going with the flow of all your friends and living with them day to day experiencing every last detail you will hate the fuher you will steal apples to survive you will be there for your friends leizel Rudy and even max when they need you most
But of course everything is not always so peachy; you
are Nazi Germany after all
Hitler is killing all Jews, but why them, there’s
nothing wrong with Jews, Exactly but Hitler’s mental state is nothing to brag
about and he believes them to be inferior.
What can I do to help my Jewish friends, the answer, nothing, well, you can hide them but if they are found then they will be sent to a death camp and you will be executed, oh yeah you didn’t know about the death camps because you where just a little German boy (or girl), so naïve, yes they are killing the Jews by the thousands with poison gas executions by rifles and even starvation, the most brutal way to die, but don’t worry you’re not a Jew and you definitely aren’t hiding one, you could get in trouble, coward, but what of your friend who always seems tired and especially secretive and you even see light going into the basement at strange times in the night, oh no, god damn it leizel, what will you do now, rat her out, help her, or just leave it be, yes I know it’s a hard choice but this is how it is in Nazi Germany, you are cold hungry and your best friend and her family are most likely traitors, life must go on but if you survive is completely up to you, and death……DUN DUN DUN
