Its oppressive force lurks wherever you go. Burning behind one's eyes, lapping at another's soul. Start wars. Destroying lives. You can try to run, but you can't hide. It's deadly and you can't escape. We are all victims. Hello/afternoon my fellow book club members, my name is Savannah Higgins and I am here to discuss the concept of discrimination in “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. Despite the time jump, humanity has progressed. no further in its acceptance and tolerance of those who are different. Discrimination has always been present in past societies and will most likely persist in future generations. It is the most damaging and widespread problem in Australia, with victims ostracized, bullied and even physically abused. In our society today, homosexuals in particular are still victims of unjust and oppressive societal attitudes. But why? They're still human, right? Throughout this reflective discourse, the relevance in our modern society of this question explored in the novel will be analyzed and evaluated with regard to the representations of concepts, identities, time and places; ideas, attitudes and values; and perspectives of past and present societies. Please keep your questions and/or comments until the end. Through “The Book Thief”, Markus Zusak demonstrated that his writing was poignant, poetic and profound. He is a brilliant writer, a poet, the Picasso of words, a literary marvel. Zusak's depiction of discrimination in the Nazi-delivered book was found to be extremely blatant and brazen, with the author revealing and reinforcing the stereotypical German concept that the Jews were treated like bug-eyed cesspools. .. middle of paper ... in this case - everyone loved them, some Han - but because they were afraid that it would put them in this position or worry them? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about, right? Another example was during the Jews' parade, where no one intervened to help the malnourished man, because they all knew that if they did, the Nazis would beat the shit out of them and they would suffer the same consequences as Hans or worse. It is clear that the preferred perspectives in the 1930s were those of the Nazis and their sympathizers, you would have to be as blind as a bat not to see that. They possessed the power of fear to impose and propagate their discriminatory and unjust political agenda among the Germans. These were the outcasts who weren't even given the time of day, whose perspectives were shamelessly ignored, the Jews forced to accept and endure a submissive role.…