The Book Thief Continued

 After much thievery and learning to read and write Narrator stops following Liesel for a while and starts following Max. Who's Max? Well, Hans, Liesel's adoptive father, has been going to "work" to meet this Jewish man named Max who is the son of a friend he had during World War One who saved his life in a way. At the time Max was a child and when he grew up he was hidden in a dark room away from the Nazis. Hans went to visit Max everyday claiming he was going to work, but really he was going to give Max food and water so he could survive while Hans thought of a plan to let him be free for a while. He soon did. He did this by buying two copies of Mein Kempf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler, one for Liesel to read and one for Max to walk around with. Anyone who sees a man carrying around a book not allowed for Jews will immediately assume he is not Jewish. So he bought him the copy and Max walked out bravely to meet Hans at his home for the first time. While all this is happening there are things going on Liesel's life. The book is called The Book Thief so we of course get to know what is going on in said book thief's life. Liesel and her friend Rudy (Or should I say boyfriend heh heh. I'm kidding they're not dating, they're 11) didn't really have much to connect with besides soccer that they play sometimes. Until Liesel and Rudy stole something together and they immediately had something to talk about, something to do that wasn't soccer. They joined a group of kids who stole food from others to eat which benefited Rudy because he was a poor child and was always starving. Plus who doesn't enjoy a good thievery? Anyway, they joined these kids and did remarkably well on their first day, they stole a bag full of apples from a farm and ate most of them of their way home. Wonder what it'd be like to steal without feeling guilt. Closest I've come was stealing two lollipops on Halloween when the bowl told to me to only take one.

 

 I think the genre of this book is more Realistic Fiction than Historical Fiction. When I first thought about it I immediately thought it was Historical Fiction because it was during the Holocaust and has some troubles regarding the rules of Hitler, but then I thought that since they didn't get into too much about the Holocaust and were just mainly focusing on Liesel's life it didn't really make sense. I mean, if I wrote a book about a boy who knows someone else who is an illegal immigrant and that someone else faced troubles when I'm 70. It wouldn't be a Historical Fiction because, yes, he did face troubles of something that may or may not be in history books, (or whatever we use besides books in the future) but that was just something many people had to deal with because of the way the laws were. In conclusion it is a Realistic Fiction even though I first thought of it as a Historical Fiction.