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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
People who are ignorant are the easiest aim when you want to manipulate the others. Like the famous “451 Fahrenheit” by Ray Bradbury suggests, when you are afraid of being deprived of you power – start burning the books. The people who know nothing about anything will gladly believe all your lies. This novel is about reading which helps you to get more mature. About living in the time and place that makes you choose between your consciousness and safety. About children who can be much stronger and true to themselves than adults. About one man that wanted to rule the world and many others who believed his stories. About death that is kind and life that is cruel. About the healing and destructive power of words. The outside Let’s look at the outer form of this novel first. The peculiarities start with the narrator itself, for the story is told from the point of view of… Death. Strangely enough this severe judge, as we are used to think of him, turns out to be not deprived of human f