The Book Thief: An Analysis

On December 14, 2012 twenty first-graders and six educators were killed by a man who then killed himself. There are many conspiracy theories that pass the whole thing off as a hoax; when in fact, it was a very real situation. Peter Houlahan, a Newtown EMT, “Before Sandy Hook I looked at the world as a good place where bad things happen. Now I look at the world as a bad place where good things happen.” Many people have had an emotional and scarring reaction. Based on this EMT’s response, “But Connecticut 's public safety culture is changing, and with it, perhaps, the notion that emergency service workers are somehow immune to emotional injury,” it is directly shown how everyone involved is effected on a large

Muslims are also to blame for bringing terrorism to America and have gained so much power that they put fear in the citizens of victimized countries (Moore 1). The measure that criminals go to commit hate crimes is just devastating and harsh. These kinds of violence cause harm and strike fear in people not only in London but also places hearing of these horrific events. Nobody wants to be harassed or attacked for something that certain individuals in their culture did, and be stereotyped as that one

Mass killing (murder) is defines as the act of murdering several or more people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time. The Boston Marathon Bombing and the massacre in South Carolina is two events that will never be forgetting in American history. Both massacres had huge impacts in the United States. Hundreds of people was affected by both massacres; leaving friends and families without their love ones. How can someone have this much hate to just go and kill/hurt a large amount of people?

That helped Liesel forget her fears when she had a nightmare, formed a lasting bond between the new family, and also helped her realize her thirst for words. "The Grave Digger 's Handbook " was the first of many books Liesel stole. While

Myop has just found out that her world is not as she had thought it was for all these years and ends up more curious than before. In paragraph 7 Alice Walker describes the corpse in detail, and Myops innocence disappears altogether, “His head lay beside him” tells the reader that the man’s head is decapitated. Added to this the quote “all of them cracked or broken” conveys that this man had taken a real long beating before his death and that may have been the cause of his death. As the story goes into paragraph 8, Myop then discovers the real cause, and is aware of how evil the world can be, “rotted remains of a noose”. This portrays that the man had been hung ,and gradually Myop understands what has happened and is able to acknowledge the truth about

Adolf Hitler was an influential figure in American history for a multitude of reasons. His primary influences were made through getting Germany out of the Great Depression. The thing that makes Hitler stand out the most is the amount of people he killed. Through the years of 1933 and 1939 he instituted hundreds of laws and regulations to restrict and exclude Jews in society. His life spanned 56 years from birth on April 20, 1889 to his death on April 30, 1945, caused by suicide.

Her life was nothing easy and getting education caused a lot of contradictions, there has been thousand of people being killed by the terrorists and millions have been injured and she is one of them. The voice of Malala is to create a kind of attention between the terrorists shot and people who don’t receive human rights such as education. One of another ways that Malala used pathos, is that, she used the description of her hometown,family and their morals. One way Malala affected the world through pathos is it recreated an organization called we are

From the onset of the book, death is a recurring event, persistent throughout the entire poem. In many ways, the Odyssey is the story of the death of all of Odysseus’ friends and fellow fighters during their return home from conquering Troy. These deaths are particularly heartbreaking to Odysseus because, normally, one would expect that all dying would conclude with the end of the war against Troy. In this case, however, the anticipation of his return to his family at home became a series of tragedies. This sequence of events changes his view and molds Odysseus’ character in regard to his surviving friends and family.

Liesel and her father’s relationship grows each and every day they are together. She feels comforted by his presence. “Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father’s eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver… Upon seeing those eyes, understood that Hans Hubermann was worth a lot,” (Zusak Ch 6). Hans Hubermann genuinely loved being

It was moving and perfectly composed book. The story is about a young lady living in a time of where there are many lives are taken as a result of the war and adjusted another group where her mom left her and where her life changes with some new individuals in it and where she learned numerous things; where she found her abilities. There are numerous musings that I can work out of this extraordinary novel. This novel is not a period squandering one in light of the fact that toward the