The Book Thief: Review

By: Timothy Albornoz M. English Pedagogy UCSC When someone starts reading a common book, that person expects to be in some way enchanted with the title and the introduction of that book and nothing new is expected to be found as the reading goes further. However, when the reading of The Book Thief is started, some things are rather confusing for the reader and non probable to be understood at first. For that reason, it is very important to say why this book causes all that amusement and fascination when is read. The fact is that this book is not narrated by the protagonist or other kind of narrator, but the one that is present in many stories: The Death. To begin with, the story focuses its attention into that little girl, Liesel Meminger, which is taken to live with a foster family after his young brother dies on a train when she is travelling with his mother. When the story starts to develop and raise some branches about Liesels life, and how Nazi Germany affects her environment and again her family. Which is interesting is how The Death tells us this story and the denouement of Liesel in the basement trying to write her this book. Then, Liesels house and family being killed by an air raid, and she as the only survivor. The story is based in many moments, but the most important and shocking is the one when Ilsa Herman gave Liesel that blank book and encourage her to write an own made story instead of stealing the books from the library. In fact, this was what Liesel was used to do when a book called her attention. This part of the story takes the reader to a complete affected and involved into the story again, even at the end. It was a fantastic book and sight storytelling. This is what make people aware that not all German were bad and not all them were guilty of Hitlers wills.