Entry Four – August 14

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

When looking at the list of books this stood out to me because the movie just came out recently. Also a lot of my friends have talked about it. It has gotten a lot of good reviews from people and I thought I might give it a try.

I thought it was very interesting since it was placed during the time period of Nazi Germany. We learned a lot about it in the past couple years in history class.  I found an interest in learning about Nazi Germany and things related to it. This book didn’t relate directly to me in anyway but I just really had been wanting to read it before.

I really enjoyed The Book Thief by Markus Zusak it really helped me see the perspective of a german who doesn’t want to follow Hitler. That there were people who didn’t agree with Hitler’s decisions. I would suggest this book to anyone who likes personal narratives or stories written in the perspective of someone from a different time period.

If you have seen the movie the book might be a little slow for you since you know what happens in the end. I have not seen the movie but I plan on watching it very soon.

Entry Three - August 14

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

"Certainly something of great magnitude was coming toward 33 Himmel Street, to which Liesel was certainly oblivious. To distort an overused human expression, the girl had more immediate fish to fry..." (Markus Zusak, 129). This quote from The Book Thief stood out to me because I did not want to stop reading when I read this paragraph. The author did a good job of "hooking" the reader in. this sentence was at the beginning of a chapter and draws the readers attention even more.


The quote above gives a good amount of detail but not so much that the reader gets bored. Zusak uses words like distort and magnitude to emphasize what he is saying and what might be important or interesting. What stood out to me was when Zusak says 'something of great magnitude was coming toward 33 Himmel Street' because I wanted to know what happened later so I kept reading. it is foreshadowing what is going to happen later on in  the chapter. Zusak started the chapter with these sentences because it is introducing us to the most important event in the chapter. Because he doesn't tell you what it is right away he leaves the reader "hanging."