The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
1. ‘The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same problem will be waiting at the end of the trip – the relative you cringe to kiss.' (p 25) Discuss.
2. Rosa Hubermann seems unlovable (p 35) and yet she has a lot of love to give, and ‘was a good woman for a crisis.' (p 230) Are seemingly angry people simply protecting themselves from the hurt which inevitably lies in human relationships? Discuss.
4. Discuss narration in this book.
5. Punishment for a moral transgression must always be made personal for people to really fear it. Hans warns Liesel not to reveal that they are harboring a Jew, by threatening to take those things which are most precious to her. (pp 219-221) This is a metaphor for the need to always ‘feel' the consequences of a crime…to ‘feel' other people's pain. Is our affluent society insensitive to other cultures and their pain?
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