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1. Summary: There are many books written about the struggles of Jews during WWII and the Holocaust. However, this book focuses on the problematic life of Germans who didn’t support Hitler and tried to help Jews. This novel was written from a third person point of view, from Death himself. Markus Zusak, the author of “The Book Thief ,” has written this 600 page book and talked about his inspirations on writing this novel. His mother, Lisa Zusak, told him stories about Nazi Germany and how Jews were sent to death chambers. Lisa Zusak, who spent her childhood in Nazi Germany, told her children that, “children were giving bread to starving prisoners on their way to concentration camps, and parents were being punished for not letting their kids to be taken to special schools by the Nazi Party…” (Farmer, 1).
This novel focuses on a small girl, Liesel Meminger, who was put up to adoption by her mother because she was too poor to provide for her daughter and son. On the way to the adoption …show more content…

Book Report Recommendation and Reflection:
a. As a result of reading this book, I’ve learned about the struggles of Germans, who didn’t support Hitler and German Nazi. There are many Germans who were against nazism and tried to avoid joining the groups connected to movement, but due to their choice to disagree with their new leader they had to face consequences by the government.
b. After reading this book I began to view the world differently by understanding those who hide from the government, which at first might look as an illegal way of avoiding consequences but there are many laws against immigrants and sometimes they’re treated unfairly. As for in the book, Jews were treated unfairly due to their nationality and beliefs, which was considered to be illegal in Nazi German so instead Jews were forced to live their homes and sent to concentration camps to be killed. Many Jews choose to hide in the basements to stay alive and not be killed by the biased

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