The Book Thief By Markus Zusak

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The Book ThiefBy Markus Zusak

• The Power of Literature

1.Literature has the power to save lives
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Mein Kampf

• Saves Maxs life by providing him with the
  appearance of a Nazi German.
• My Struggle is ironic as it is now Maxs
  Struggle
• Mein Kampf. Of all the things to save me -Max

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The dream carrier

• Steals this book from the Mayors library to read
  to Max while he is sick.
• About a young boy who wants to be a priest.
• Represents Maxs longing for a new life and
  Liesels desperation for Max to wake up.
• She gave The Dream Carrier to Max as
• If the words alone could nourish him

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The Book Thief

• Liesels book that she writes about her life
• Saves her life as she is in the basement when
  there street is bombed and she survives
• Shows her struggle through the
• war and the end of her old life.
• She was still holding desperately
• on to the words who had saved her life
• I have hated the words and I have loved them,
  and I hope I have made them right

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2.Literature is a source of power
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The Word Shaker

• Max writes this book about Hitlers rise to power
  through words
• Shows the two sides of words Liesels good,
  loving side and Hitler's manipulative, evil side.
• The Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world
  with words

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The standover man

• A book that Max writes about how powerless he has
  felt his whole life until he meet Liesel.
• He writes over Mein Kampf and in doing so
  exercises power over Hitler by erasing his words,
  and therefore his source of power, and replacing
  them with his own.
• He draws himself as a bird because he longs to
  have the freedom that a bird has as well as now
  identifying himself as what Liesel percieves him
  as.
• His hair is like feathers

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3.Literature gives people hope
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The Gravediggers Handbook

• Finds it at her brothers funeral
• Helps her to understand that death is a regular
  occurrence and reassures her that her brother was
  buried correctly.
• It becomes her last link to her brother and
  mother and represents her old life with her
  family
• The books meaning. 1. The last time she saw her
  brother. 2. The last time she saw her mother.

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The shoulder shrug

• About a Jewish man who is portrayed in a good
  light. Teaches Liesel that Jewish people are
  humans and teaches her compassion towards them.
  This sets her up to meet Max and accept him as
  part of the family.
• Also gives her a distraction from her nightmares
• She was soon pleased she was awake and able to
  read

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The whistler

• Story about a detective and a serial killerGives
  the people of Himmel street hope and a
  distraction from the bomb raidsIronic that a
  book about violence gives them hope when faced
  with the real possibility of their own deaths.
• Becomes a symbol of hope in everyday life for
  Liesel
• She liked to feel it in her hand

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The Duden Dictionary and Thesaurus

• Is given to Liesel from Ilsa in an
• attempt to fix their relationship
• Liesel appreciates it as words are what defines
  her
• Gives Ilsa hope as it creates closure for the
  death of her son
• Helps improve Liesels knowledge of words
• I hope you find this dictionary as useful as
  you read your stolen books - Ilsa

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The Last Human Stranger

• Stole from the Mayors library
• Represents the end of her nightmares and the
  point where she is at a peaceful point on her
  life
• Foreshadows the events to come
• There were people everywhere on the city
  street, but the stranger could not have been more
  alone if it had been empty
• This is how Liesel feels when her street is
  bombed and filled
• with dead bodies of her loved ones, leaving her
  alone.
• She becomes The last human stranger.