Effects Of Innocence In The Book Thief

Children are often viewed as the source of the world’s innocence through their narrow life experience, and for most, positive outlook, and their overall ignorance to most situation. The integrity of the structure of this innocence is quite fragile, leaving even the least of traumatic events a threat to their innocence. Knowing the effect of trauma on children is important to understand the perspective survivors of such horrible events, such as, human sex trafficking or living through the oppressive, authoritarian Third Reich Nazi regime lead by Adolf Hitler. Sold by Patricia McCormick, and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, are two fictional novels that describe the lives of two girls whom were placed into traumatic situations and came out with a lack of innocence and ignorance, therefore, having a more realistic view on the world. The Book Thief is book that describes the life of Liesel Meminger and her experience of living in Nazi Germany. The story starts when Liesel 's communist mother is on a train heading for a town in which Liesel’s new adopted parents are. On the train ride to Liesel’s new life, her brother, Werner, had died before arriving in Molching, and not only that, but she would also go on to lose her mother to Hitler’s Regime for being a communist. Already, Liesel experiences such a traumatic event that will affect her for the rest of the story, and will see dramatic changes to personality and outlook almost immediately with her being quite resistant to her