Monthly Archives | April 2020
Connections between the Book Thief and Night (with some spoilers)
Posted on April 24, 2020 | By kdaniel24 | 1 response
In the book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, there are some connections within the text between it and the book we are currently reading in school, Night by Elie Wiesel. For instance, it offers insights in the differences between the situation of Jews living in Nazi Allied territory and homeland Germany. For instance, in […]
Philosophy in the Book Thief
Posted on April 17, 2020 | By kdaniel24 | Leave a response
In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, there are many questions raised about the topic of death. To quote the book, when a pilot is shot down over a suburb of Munich and killed, (this is from the perspective of death harvesting the pilot’s soul) “You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all […]
First they came…
Posted on April 2, 2020 | By kdaniel24 | Leave a response
This is a theme I see in many stories of persecution, and, in extreme cases, genocide. Of course, we know this was a prominent issue in the allowing of the holocaust, but I’m sure this is a leading cause in many other atrocities. The fear to speak out is a strong one, and it is […]
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