The Book Thief Book Vs Movie Essay

The Book Thief is a novel and a film that takes place in Germany. The majority of the story is based through the years of 1939-1943. In the book, the main character, Liesel Meminger, is a 9 year old girl with her foster family the hubermanns. After seeing the hit book blow up, they decided to make a movie. The Movie and the book, even though having their similarities, weren't exactly hand on hand in everything. . Some of these differences are minor, some being major. The Movie and the book were different through Setting, Character, and mood. Firstly, we have setting. Throughout the two pieces, the setting is the main element that stayed the most faithful. As Stated before, The Book Thief takes place On Himmel Street in Germany. I did not observe, or read any differences between the book and the movie. It stayed relatively the same throughout the movie, and I found that there were no differences between the Movie and the Book.

The characters were different, and did different things in the movie as they did in the book. One of the most obvious differences in the characters that I see is with Hans. In the book, one of the main reasons that lisel and he bond, is because of their cigarette rolling sessions. Hans asks Liesel, “ You know how to roll a cigarette… next hour … playing with tobacco and cigarette papers…” This is showing how they were rolling the cigs together, but this was never featured in the movie. Another major difference I notice that was in the book and not the movie, was the absence of the narrator, Death. Death was present in the beginning of the movie, but wasn't even as close as present as he was in the book. The movie missed out on some of his helpings, quotes, and foreshadowing. Lastly, their were a list full of characters mentioned in the book not in the movie. Some of these being Hans Junior, and Vector