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."