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Book Thief Violence Quotes

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In the novel, The Book Thief, author Markus Zusak illustrates the theme that words have the potential to be more harmful than physical violence, if used in the wrong way. This is exemplified by two quotes. The first quote is from part eight, in Max’s book, The Standover Man. “Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words. ‘I will never fire a gun,’ he devised. ‘I will not have to’” (Zusak, 445). This shows that Hitler, at least through the eyes of Max, knew he could control and destroy people not through violence, but through words, symbols, propaganda and hate. The second quote is found as well in part eight, in The Word Shaker. Here, Max wrote about Germany’s nation of farmed thoughts, “He watched them grow, until eventually,

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