Summary Of Max Vandenburg's The Book Thief

Throughout this journal, one can question why the author wrote the book from the perspective of death and what will happen to Max Vandenburg. Initially, there is the question of why the narrator of the novel is the entity of death. One answer to this question is that writing the book through death’s perspective is both creative and different. Having death speaking personally to you on the first page is a unique draw-in. There are no other books popularly known that can claim to have such a narrator, which makes it stand out from its competition on the bookshelves. As the New York Times states in a review for the book, “brilliant… It’s the kind of book that can be life-changing” (Zusak). This quote clearly shows that the author’s decision in having death be
Due to this, having the narrator being death itself places it befittingly into the setting. The last reason the author may have appointed death to be his narrator is because it gives a logical reason for why the narrator knows personal information of all the characters. Rarely does a book give an explanation to why the narrator has the inside insights that they do, forcing the readers to assume that they are an omniscient being created purely for the writing of the story. The Book Thief, however, gives a legitimate justification of why the narrator knows all the information it does, as it is literally an all-knowing entity that represents the abstract delivery of souls. This logical explanation results in the book making more sense to the audience, in an odd, twisted way, thus giving a reason to why Zusak may have chosen death to narrate it. In contrast to the reason of death’s narration, one can also question what will happen to the Jewish Max Vandenburg further in the story. Formostly, one can deduce that Max may be found by the Nazis and taken away from