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| Analysis- Death utilizes the literary device foreshadowing to avoid horrendous occurrences while narrating The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak. In doing so Death reveals his sensitivity to the subject of the appalling acts humans commit. You can determine that Death finds these behaviors abysmal by how sudden the excerpts are in the novel. When something is misfortunate Death quickly puts forth an excerpt and doesn't dwell on the topic as if he yearns to get it over with as quickly as possible. He does this because, while claiming not to be, Death is bothered by death and foreshadowing is his way to circumvent going into detail. He states these excerpts in multiple ways. Some will be indirectly while in others you can sense his opinion, and sometimes you’ll catch a glimpse of his emotions or he’ll be straight forward. |
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| “The time had come for one.” Page 19 |
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| “Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.” Page 30 |
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| “She saw it but didn’t realize until later, when all the stories came together.” Page 71 |
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| “Trust me though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived Liesel would hold them in her like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.” Page 80 |
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| “Like most misery, it began with apparent happiness.” Page 84 |
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| “ She was just waiting for the right moment.” Page 132 |
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| “Also, it’s important to the story.” Page 138 |
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| “You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must.” Page 258 |
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| “Perhaps it was because so much more had happened by the time she wrote her story in the basement.” Page 258 |
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| “In the end, she had to give it to him.” Page 267 |
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| “A Triple-Tiered problem. 1. Tommy Mûller’s ears. 2. Franz Deutscher- the irate Hitler Youth Leader. 3. Rudy’s inability to stay out of things.” Page 268 |
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| “Originally, Max had intended to write his own story.” Page 277 |
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| “Today Rudy was all out of laughter and lies.” Page 282 |
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| “The hands of Frau Holtzapfel. The parade of Jews.” Page 385 |
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| “He nearly went completely unnoticed.” Page 293 |
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| “With no further words, Liesel followed him and successfully avoided Rudy’s tormentor-straight into the path of another.” Page 300 |
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| “It brought the war closer to Himmel Street, and it dragged me along for the ride.” Page 308 |
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| “The bombs were coming- so was I.” page 335 |
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| “But it was bombing carpet. Make no mistake.” Page 358 |
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| “That makes two weeks, she would later write in the basement. Two weeks to change the world, and fourteen days to ruin it.” Page 388 |
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| “Rudy Steiner wasn’t going anywhere.” Page 411 |
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| “The coat men knew who was third.” Page 415 |
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| “The contents of Rudy’s bag: Six stale pieces of bread, broken into quarters.” Page 439 |
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| “One seat, two men, a short argument, and me.” Page 464 |
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| “I was on my way to Molching for one more.” Page 488 |
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| “But her story lasts for six.” Page 493 |
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| “I felt them on my hands as I stood outside Frau Diller’s. |
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| “Until the ninety-eight day.” Page 500 |
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“She was saying goodbye, and she didn’t even know it.” Page 518
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Opinionated Foreshadowing |
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| “He had already cheated me in one world war, and would later be put into another (as a perverse kind of reward) where he would somehow manage to avoid me again.” Page 34 |
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| “He didn’t deserve to die the way he did.” Page 241 |
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| “You do not help Jews on the street. Your basement should not be hiding one.” Page 416 |
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| “As usual I collected humans. I was tired. And the year wasn’t even halfway over yet.” Page 338 |
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| “Usually my curiosity leads to the dreaded witnessing of some kind of human outcry, but on this occasion, I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.” Page 533 |
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| “Often, I wonder what page she was up to when I walked down Himmel street in the dripping-tap rain, five nights later.” Page 528 |
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| “I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations.” Page 3 |
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| “I wonder what she was reading when the first bomb dropped from the rib cage of a plane.” Page 528 |
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| “It kills me sometimes, how people died.” Page 464 |
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| “I saw the book thief three times.” Page 5 |
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| “The book thief had struck for the first time- the beginning of an illustrious career.” Page 29 |
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| “One of them, the infamous Rudy, would soon become Liesel’s best friend, and later, her partner and sometime catalyst in crime.” Page 47 |
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| “Rudy understood nothing, and that night was the prelude of things to come.” Page 61 |
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| “It would provide her with a venue for continued book thievery.” Page 83 |
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| “It ended a few weeks later.” Page 90 |
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| “They didn’t make it that far.” Page 118 |
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| “Its journey began on the way home, the night of the fire.” Page 125 |
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| “We’ll give him seven months. Then we’ll come for him.” Page 128 |
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| “Certainly something of great magnitude was coming toward 33 Himmel Street, to which Liesel was currently oblivious.” Page 129 |
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| “He would bring it to her in the early hours of morning, before re-treating down the concrete steps to what he now like to call home.” |
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| “He’d have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips.” Page 242 |
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| “In the basement, just over two years later, Liesel ached sometime to go next door and see him, even if she was writing in the early hours of morning.” Page 271 |
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| “It took him approximately five months to turn his statement into a true one.” Page 275 |
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| “So hard that he would never ask her lips again and go to his grave without them. “ Page 303 |
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| “Max would not wake up. For eight more days.” Page 331 |
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| “The coat men wanted Rudy.” Page 403 |
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| “And just maybe, he would have lived.” Page 411 |
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| “He would be killed by Hans Hubermann’s seat.” Page 432 |
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| “Only one person survived.” Page 498g |
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| “Oh, and one more thing. He would die with his mouth open.” Page 463 |
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| Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print. |
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