Analyse how language features were used to deepen your understanding of a theme. In his novel, “The Book Thief”, Markus Zusak communicates his ideas about the vulnerability of all societies to colluding in atrocities by re-framing the events of the Nazi Holocaust in the mid-20th century. Like many texts in the genre of Magical Realism, […]

tarras It is winter, early morning in the little township, chilled and blackfrosted, the plants and bushes stiffly frozen, the football field icy, the trees carrying crystals of sharp ice up to the wet sodden air-hugging mist. Listen.  It is morning quietly roving the main road, the moist melodic streaming mist rising over the garage […]

“It’s pathetic, how a man can stand by and do nothing while a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great again”. This is the mindset Hitler was able to make Germans have through the power of his words.In the novel, ‘The Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak, Magical Realism is illustrated. Magical Realism […]

Question: How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel ‘The Book Thief’? Molching being fictional personification of death death being niave foreshadowing from death death being normalized

“I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it’cold. I don’t have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy to pinning on me from a distance.” From this quote, death is trying to change our perception or the views we currently have of him. I personally […]

“I do not carry a sickle or a scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it’s cold. And I don’t have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance.” page 329