The Boy in the Striped Pyajamas

 

 

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The Book Thief

554 pages

The novel by Markus Zusak called The Book Thief is not for people who aren't up for a challenge. The book is narrated entirely by Death and takes place during the Holocaust. It has many characters in it, but one main character is Liesel Meminger who was an orphan taken in by foster family. She only loves one thing in the world: books. When she first came to her foster family she couldn't read, but had just stolen her first book about digging graves. Her foster father helped her learn to read and soon she had many stolen books. Liesel shares these books with her neighbors as well as a Jewish man that her foster family is hiding in the basement. Liesel and the Jewish man are very close until he is forced to find a different hiding place. This book was very hard to read and even harder to keep track of what was going on. The narrator, Death, kept using flashbacks and other stories to tell the main story. I do think this was a good book though. Whoever reads it just has to make sure to take a lot of notes.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

216 pages

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was a really good book. It's about two young boys named Bruno and Shmeul. Shmeul lives in a concentration camp and is Jewish, but Bruno lives in a house by the concentration camp. Bruno and Shmeul start talking and find out they have the same birthday. They find out that they actually have a lot of things in common. This leads to a really important and unexpected friendship with an extremely sad ending.

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My Second Bookthief Post

I noticed that Death said she would take her second book soon. I also noticed that she is still having nightmares about her brother. Do you wonder like me if that is going to effect her later on, or will she be caught for stealing another book?

 

Sincerely,

Jordan

The Book Thief


In the novel The Book Thief, the main character is a little girl named Liesel who lives in Germany during Hitler's rule. Liesel comes from very a poor family. She was given to a foster family by her parents because they thought Liesel would be better off there. One of the things that I noticed in Part 1 is that Liesel was not given to members of the Nazi party. I thought this was significant because this tells me that Liesel could be in danger later on in the novel. I think she is either in danger or her new family will have to join the Nazi party. I am very worried that Liesel's new family will be hurt or killed because they are not Nazis, but are surrounded by neighbors who are.