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Theme: Ambition Thematic statement: Ambition helps you achieve things that you never thought could be possible.

Title: "The Book Thief" Author: Markus Zusak

Point of View: third person omniscient  Setting: before, during, and after World War 2

Main Characters: Death- Narrator, Liesel- young German girl a.k.a the book thief, Hans Huberman- Foster Father of Liesel, Rosa Huberman- Foster Mother of Liesel, Max Vandenburg- Jewish man who hides in Liesel's basement, Rudy Steiner- young boy who has a crush on Liesel.  Central Conflict: Liesel's foster parents can't afford books so she steals them from places.

How was the theme developed?(Give specific examples from the story that support the theme): the theme was developed by showing that Liesel would do anything to learn how to read even steal them from the fire on Hitler's birthday.

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">What symbols/symbolism was/were used to support the theme?:

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">If this was a newly selected author, would you read another by him/her?Explain: No; because the book that I read confused me by doing a lot of time shifts and jumps.

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Which was your favorite?Why? I believe that "Ender's Game" was my favorite because it had the most action in it.

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Synopsis: <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liesel, a young German girl, is on her way to an orphanage when tragedy strikes. Liesel's brother dies and they must stop to bury him. When Liesel sees the grave digger drop a book. She does not tell him that he has dropped the book but instead steals it. But when she gets to the orphanage she hides it until Hans Huber finds and thus begins her way of learning how to read but it also gives her the ambition to do whatever it takes for her to learn how to read. She will even still the books thus the book thief is born. But as she is learning how to read a man named Max Vandenburg, a Jewish person, comes to Hans for a hiding place. In the beginning she is shy around Max but eventually she became friends with him and came to the room he was hiding in to read with him.

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