13th May 2019

The Book Thief Essay Plan

Question:
How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief

Intro
Intro into how Zusak uses elements of magical realism to challenge the preconceptions of the reader.

Paragraph 1
What is Magical Realism?

Paragraph 2
Death
How Death is used to normalise the horrors of WW2 and how humans can be monsters
That’s the sort of thing I’ll never know, or comprehend — what humans are capable of.

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Molching
How Molching is used to show the ease at which we can be tricked and how Germans in WW2 were the same as us.

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The Books
Used to show how powerful words are.
Quote: the book was starting to burn her. It seemed to be igniting.
OR: Beneath her shirt, a book was eating her up.

Conclusion
rewrite intro and conclude all points made

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