The London Times EDITORIAL: “THE BOOK THIEF” CRITIQUED By: Jenna Jarosinski “You are going to die” (6). The scary and dreadful truth stated by none other than the only inevitable event of our lives—Death. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is an emotional story about a young girl named Liesel Meminger living in Nazi Germany. This young adult novel features Liesel’s coming of age and her perspective of World War II/Holocaust Germany, as narrated by Death. A novel narrated by Death? Surprisingly, that’s
Edgar Allan Poe uses many allusions in his short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, to further express the theme that death cannot be avoided. Poe’s first allusion was inspired by William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”. “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious”(Poe). Prospero, the protagonist in the Shakespearean play, was a brave wizard who saved and freed many people. Much like this, Prince Prospero, the protagonist from Poe’s short story, was also fearless. The Prince
The Painters: Early June is a segment of the latter part of Markus Zuzak’s ‘The Book Thief’. This passage from part five follows conventional narrative structure. It consists of paragraphs and an interjection from Death regarding Max’s basement visions. Death is the narrator in this section, with close proximity to Liesel’s thoughts. She is not the narrator, though her perspective is focused on out of the other characters. The reader is positioned to consider Death a reliable narrator, through both
The story begins in 2001 with a memory. A memory of an event that took place in 1975. Amir is the one who will be narrating this story. This event is said to have changed his whole life and the person he becomes in the future. Amir recalls this event taking place in Kabul, Afghanistan when he was still a child. Amir grew up comfortably. He had a nice home, he ate well, he had servants, he had everything he ever needed and wanted. Amir lived with Baba, his father who raised him since Amir’s mother