Argumentative Essay On The Book Thief

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“I am haunted by humans” (Zusak 550). The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is about the horrors of World War II. Liesel and her family help out an old friend by hiding a Jew. Liesel also steals her first book when she at her brother’s funeral. Liesel Meminger’s remarkable actions like feeling good when she steals a book and her family hiding a Jew help demonstrate why Death is “haunted by humans”.
Stealing books is not right but it is also unusual. Stealing books in Nazi Germany is unusual. Stealing is illegal which could cause Death to be haunted by humans. “Liesel stood in the mayor’s library with greed in her fingers and book titles at her lips” (Zusak 365). When Liesel is trying to find a book to steal in the mayor’s library, she gets the feeling …show more content…

Liesel and her family were paying an old friend of Hans but also doing something that they knew they could be taken away for. “We can’t leave him here, the smell will kill us…and we can’t carry him out the door and drag him up the street either” (Zusak 329). Max, the Jew had become sick and they were not sure if he was going to make it. Trying to figure out a way to take out a Jewish corpse had become impossible to do without getting caught. “Does he know? Liesel thought. Can he smell we’re hiding a Jew” (Zusak 343)? Having Nazi soldiers come into their home was nerve racking because they had to hide Max but they had less than a minute. They were so worried that they might get caught because they could have been taken away from their house and their family. Hiding a Jew could scare anybody if they were not allowed to.
Liesel Meminger’s remarkable actions like feeling good when she steals a book and her family hiding a Jew help demonstrate why Death is “haunted by humans”. Stealing books and hiding a Jew were both wrong things to do because they were not allowed. These two things are just a few of the ways Death could have become haunted by

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