“How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief?” Markus Zusak conveys his ideas about the obscuring social perspective we use to look at and consequently react to actions within society in his novel, The Book Thief. Zusak does this […]

“How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief?” The Book Thief illustrates the power of words; negative and positive. This power is important because it can change the social perspective and hence exponentially encourage others to speak out and […]

The author manipulates the reader Subject Verb Object

Death is the action responsible for taking a human life. For this action to occur there must firstly be some other action responsible for the loss of it. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, death, the action of life’s ending, is not only developed as a key character but is also the story’s narrator. […]