Narrator Point of View in The Book Thief
स्टोरीबोर्ड विवरण
Analyzing the author's choice of narrator and their point of view or perspective gives the reader a deeper understanding of the story, the characters, their biases and motivations. Author of The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, made the unusual choice of using Death as the narrator. This allowed him to describe the life of Liesel Meminger but also the horrors
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- NARRATOR: FIRST PERSON ANDTHIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT
- Death is overworked and tired. He describes the horror of war in WWI and WWII. His perspective gives us a greater understanding of the time and the magnitude of suffering beyond what Liesel experiences.
- DEATH'S PERSPECTIVE
- As an omniscient narrator, Death is also able to intimately describe the characters' thoughts and emotions, like Liesel's trauma of losing her brother.
- LIESEL'S PERSPECTIVE
- Death: Narrates the story in the first person describing his experiences using "I, me, my". Death also describes the life of Liesel Meminger and others. Because he is "Death" he can explain the surrounding events the characters are unaware of.
- EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT: "I witness the ones that are left behind, crumbled among the jigsaw puzzles of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs."
- EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT: "Still in disbelief, she started to dig. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't."
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