Sunday, December 7, 2014
The Book Thief
The Book Thief is quite a book. It starts out with the narrator talking to us. They don't have a gender but they do have a job. Narrator takes people's souls when they die so it's like Narrator is a character in it's self. Narrator follows a little girl named Liesel who is referred to by Narrator as The Book Thief. The story is set during the Holocaust in Germany mainly through Liesel's life and not really focusing on the major events that occurred during the Holocaust. Liesel is born to a single mother and later gets a brother. Her mother cannot take care of them so she puts them up for adoption and is sold to a better family. On the way to this family her brother dies in a train by Narrator. Liesel never sees her mother again but learns to cope with her new family and ends up loving them. She doesn't know how to read at her age so instead of being in 4th grade she has to go to school at Kindergarden. She can't learn to read but she tries with her new father by reading a book she stole (I bet jew did nazi that coming). Slowly she learns to read and enjoys it which just motivates her to steal more books. By now she's stolen three. One place she stole a book was during an event where everyone was supposed to burn a belonging of theirs together with everyone else making a huge fire. Since Liesel was part of the Hitler Youth she was forced to attend. After the fire was out and everyone went home Liesel found a book that had survived and she took it home before the men cleaning up could get to it. The other one she stole was from her school but she didn't like stealing books from there so she returned it.
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This is one gigantic paragraph! You have a lot of good detail, but it would be easier to follow if you broke it up. Also, which blog assignment is this? It isn't very clear.
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