Book Thief Quotes

The book thief quotations Nikhil Shah

1. “It would be better for a complete dream, I think, but I really have no control over that.”” Pg. 21

This quote has a significant personal connection to me, as it shows how her nightmares took over part of her life after the death of her brother. Liesel’s nightmare were ongoing events of suffering every night, that would put her in a depressed state of mind. I connect to this quote/event because In my past I had to deal with the death of close ones, therefore, causing a traumatic experience which leads me to have nightmares. These nightmares would ruin my ability to sleep as I would drown in the reality of life that I had lost someone close, and that's is exactly what Liesel is feeling too as her

“ Just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.” Pg 83

This quote is important as it shows the readers how the theme of the book, death, is supported by the events and characters. Death is one the main themes shown throughout the book, and that the narrator of the story is death himself, Death is shown throughout the whole book at times through war, bombs, suicide, and old age. He is something that no one can escape and all the characters in the story show an understanding of this concept. But death is misunderstood to have no feeling when he has some feelings or at least knows when things are not fair to even though he said that all he is fair (contradicting himself). This is seen when he admits “even death has a heart”

The setting and time of the book are World War 2, during the Holocaust, which shows in “death to more death”, that death was amongst them everywhere. In that time frame of 1939, Liesel knew about the war and how people get taken away and die. She also had a thought that her mother was taken away by the fuhrer (Hitler). Death was around Liesel as had to endure that struggle of your mother going away (allegedly dying), her brother dying, and the death of Rudy later on in the book. Adversity connects to death as we see that Liesel had to deal with adversity in her life before coming to a stop, and when you see Max go through the same thing. We see the connection between the two, Liesel and Max, and how death is the main

The Jewish people were murdered in camps, put to hard labor work, or looked down at by the Germans in general. Being a Jewish person meant that you couldn't travel, or own land, or do anything normal (German) person would do. Even as something simple like giving a piece of bread or painting over Jewish slurs, would get questioned about your loyalty and would get people thinking that they are agisnt the “Nazis”. The Nazi regime had brought radical and daunting social, economic change to the German Jewish community. If you were a terribly poor German with no money or food or good family. You would receive no discrimination against your own blood, but being a German Jewish person. You would not receive any support or help, you would get stripped of your identity and discriminated. The Nazi regime over the Jews is the biggest example about how there was a cultural significance in the time period of 1933- 1939. This cultural significance is greatly shown through the mid to last part of the book when Max had come stayed with them. But he had to stay hidden as he was a Jewish man with a fake identity which took two years to get or else he would've been caught and sent to camp or