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The Book Thief Themes
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The Book Thief Themes: Courage
- Throughout the book, there is a lot of courage shown by many characters
- Rudy showed lots of courage when he repilied with a false date on purpose, when he was asked the Führer's birthday, even though he knew he would be beaten.
- The Hubermann's showed courage when they took in Max, even though they knew they could be persecuted for harboring a Jew
- Liesel showed courage when she decided to help Max when he was moving to the concentration camp truck even though she knew the soldiers were watching
The Book Thief
The Book Thief Themes: Identity
By: Markus Zusak
- In the Book Thief, anyone with a Jewish identity is persecuted in Germany.
- They are starved, physical abused, and live in the worst living conditions.
- This creates a change in the identities of some ofthe characters in the novel. A wrong move can result in instant death for loved ones, not to mention one's self.
- Some of the novels main characters refuse to be identified as Nazis and forge new identities from friendship, and resistance to injustice.
The themes of The Book Thief
- War
- Dehumanization
- Identity
- Courage
- The power of words
The book Thief Themes: The Power of Words
- A lot of the words used in the Book Thief have affected many of the characters in the book thief
- Learning the alphabet and how to create words is how Liesel and Hans Hubermann begin to develop their deep bond.
- Liesel uses the words of the book she had with her, to calm the people in the raid shelter during the air raids.
- Liesel's book that she wrote, The Book Thief, helped established a emotional connection to Death in the story.
The Book Thief Themes: Dehumanization
- The Book Thief is set in the time of Nazi Germany
- It is also during the time of the Holocaust
- Jews are being taken out of their homes, and sent to concentration camps
- It showed how a lot of the non-jewish people of Germany hated the Jews that lived there.
- Max, one of the characters, hides inside the Hubermann's basement to be protected from death
The Book Thief Themes: War
- The Book Thief is steeped in war. It's set primarily between 1939 and 1943 in Nazi Germany.
- Both the Holocaust and World War II are going on at this time. Warfare shapes the characters' lives and impact their choices.
- The narrator, who is death, does not like wars as it stops him from taking a vacation and he never has a slow day.
- Hans Hubermann tells Liesel that he had previously been in World War I.
- Hans Hubermann and his son are enrolled into the German army for WWII
Themes in The Book Thief
By: Kwame Kena
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