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The author of The Book Thief is Markus Zusak. The publication for the story is Random House Press 2006 (Paper back) New York, New York, and the genre is a narrative. The Book Thief is a story of death, grief, survival, courage, love, and friendship.
 * The Book Thief **

The story takes place on 33 Himmel Street in the small old town of Muinch, Germany. I think the author choose this particular location because the story is based around the period of the Holocaust, and majority of the characters are Germans. The main character of the story is Liesel Meminger; a young, skinny, and pale German girl. She would be considered the protagonist because she is the only one who survives the booming of Himmel Street. The antagonist of the story is Adolf Hitler, survival, and death. With Hitler being the world dominator it ties in with death and survival because booms were dropped everywhere, family members were shipped off to war, this lead to poverty and hunger.

The plot of the story trying to survive the effects of the war. Liesel’s goal was to learn how to read and write, and she was able to accomplish her goal. The arch of the story was when Max; A Jewish man who lived in the basement of the Hubermans (The Foster Family of Liesel). The message of the book is to show the power of words, and the wisdom you can gain from it. Towards the end of the book the author showed the process of how Liesel got better with reading and writing and how she learned that Hitler had so much power because of his way with words.

I think that the writing was both powerful and effective because the story of Liesel Meminger was about courage, strength, and survival. The strong point of the book is how the author made it very descriptive. You could picture everything “Death” was describing. There weren’t really any weak points of the book. I think the author’s perspective is about how powerful words can be. I agree with the author’s perspective because in the beginning Liesel started off illiterate, and in the end she was able to read, learned how powerful it was, and wrote her own book. My impression from the book is that it is very interesting and moving. I would recommend this book because even though it talks about a lot of death it is really interesting. Not only is it moving, but it has some humor to it and I believe that people could somehow relate to the story.