Persuasive Essay On The Book Thief

We now live in a generation where parents excessively “bubble-wrap” their children. Bubble wrapping is the figurative term used to illustrate how parents want to keep their children safe and out of harm’s way at all times. Society often wonders, what the problem is with this, with all of the conflict, terrorism and wars happening in the world surrounding them, how could keeping a child safe have negative consequences? The truth is, that not letting children out into the world and keeping them from the current news and events no matter how devastating, decreases their capability of understanding their environment around them and, of further adapting to it in the future. In The Book Thief, after Liesel was transported by her mother to a foster home because of their

She thought of her mother an repeated Rosa Hubermanns questions. Where was she? What had they done to her? And once and for all, who, in the actual fact, were they?” (qtd. Zuzak pg.96 ). In this quote, it shows how Liesel is being left in the dark about the events happening in Nazi Germany and the activities their government is doing without the public’s knowledge such as mass murders and imprisonment of specific cultural groups and the possible effects these events could have on Liesel’s biological mother. It has been proven that children that are acknowledged as risk-takers and know more about the world around them are more likely to be stronger as well as more competent, therefore they can be a better contributor to society as an individual. If Liesel was more aware of the situation of the war happening around her, and of the consequences it could have on her mother (such as poverty or the lack of food), she would most likely be less curious about her biological mother’s situation and would be able to focus on more important and current situations such as her amelioration in reading and writing in school which would help her not only in school but in her everyday life as