Seroka, LindseyMrs. HackettEnglish 8Period 8May 22, 2014Book ReportBook Title: The Book ThiefAuthor: Markus ZusakPublisher: Random House Children's BooksCopyright Date: 2005Number of Pages: 550Genre: Young Adult/Historical FictionPoint of View: 1st person; 3rd person limited; 3rd Person OmniscientThe narrator of The Book Thief is Death, and his point of view is in the first person. It provides a narration from his perspective of the war. Setting: Where and when the story takes place. The novel centers around Molching, Germany, a fictional town that resides on Himmel Street. Ironically, Himmel means "paradise", something which does not at all describe Germany from 1939 to 1942, when the story takes place. Much of the story revolves around the basement of 33 Himmel Street, where the Hubermanns sheltered a Jew. Other important games take place on Munich Street, the city's main street. This period takes place right in the heart of Nazi Germany, a time when everything was tense and tense. One of the main threats at that time for towns like Molching was the fear of being bombed, which ended up playing an immense role in the outcome of the novel.Main Character: Personality, character traits of the main character and description of appearance (what they look like). Remember, these can be found through direct and indirect characterization (actions, looks, things they say, things others say about them, etc.). The protagonist of the novel is Liesel Meminger, who is perhaps better known as The Book Thief. She is a diligent and abnormally curious girl, who started the book at just ten years old. Even though one of her very first scenes in the novel is when she steals a book, she encounters great difficulty in the middle of paper......ge: Use of metaphor, simile, personification or expressions idiomaticsTheme: Life Lesson or MoralThe theme of this novel is that there is power in the words people say. The book illustrates this as Liesel begins her friendship with Max and Hans as they bond over words and books. As Max explains in the books he wrote as a gift to Liesel, Hitler rose to his position of dominance not through war or pain, but through the influence of his words. They can make you feel beautiful or make you turn on innocent people. As the book progresses, Liesel tries to quell the war by taking books, and then continues to soothe the people of their anxiety in the bomb shelter by reading her books to them. The book teaches that it is worth trying to save others at the risk of your life. That no matter how bad the situation gets, there will always be a way to benefit yourself and others..