Similarities Between Hitler And Zusak

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Zusak tells his story through third person omniscient. The narrator is Death, and the setting is during World War II in the fictional town of Molching on Himmel Street in Germany. Zusak writes in small paragraphs, with plenty of subtitles on every other page, if not on every page. These subtitles will include anything from foreshadows, to spoilers, to small facts about new people just met by Liesel. The main character is Liesel Meminger, who lives with foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann, and her best friend in Molching is Rudy Steiner. Hans, Rosa, and Liesel hid a Jew in their basement named Max Vandenburg. Max eventually left after so many weeks, and no police ever found out about him. This passage in particular began prior in the novel …show more content…
The significance of the time period being that it is during World War II. Hitler’s rein compares to an apocalypse in the sense of the creation of gas chambers and concentration camps during World War II, with the theme of despair in both novels prevalent. Both authors write using the tone of despair and giving off a mood for the reader of negativity, or have the reading feeling on edge about what will happen next. Zusak and McCarthy both wrote their novels under the genre fiction, with mild drama involved. Both authors had multiple examples of imagery. “...their physical shells--plummeted to the earth. All of them were light, like the cases of empty walnuts” (349). The two main characters in The Road stayed static, while in The Book Thief, the main character, Liesel, was dynamic and constantly changed and became more mature throughout the course of Zusak’s writing. The only noticeable difference being Zusak’s book was 552 pages, while McCarthy’s was less than half of that, and Zusak uses grammar and punctuation.
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