Introduction thing
For the most part, Markus Zuzacks novel The Book Thief has been written in the genre of realism as all of the places and events appear to be very believable to what we know about the world; However, from the very beginning, there is an anomaly or a misprint that gives the novel its Magical realism characteristics. Its narrated in the perspective of death.

The purpose of applying magical realism, in Markus Zusak’s case, is to challenge the reader’s preconceptions of the idea of death. Death as a character grows on us to be an honest character. After all, he has nothing to hide. “I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result” Death highlights the point that he is not violent whitch suggests to us, given that most deaths in WWII were from acts of violence, that he(it) is not the reason they are dying. He(it) is not killing them because he is a result of our actions. Therefore this shifts the responsibility off deaths shoulders and onto ours. This sheds new light, new colours onto events such as WWII and the Holocaust and helps push away any ideas that these events were just a tragedy. This is because they were our doing and not some otherworldly being. They were done by us.

Magical realism continues to present ideas in new colours from the character of death. The character of death continues without fail to shed colours on the horrors humans have performed. Death throughout this chapter does what we did not. Minute after minute, shower after shower… Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it was newly born. Death here presents the Nazis that what they are doing to the Jews is routine, normal. By using the word minute and shower it indicates with ‘after’ in between them, it indicate its happening on a regular basis. This Meanwhile, Death is horrified he(it) is still trying to take care of every soul he sends away while the Nazis are discarding great quantities with little care. This makes it seem like Death cares more for the Jews and French involved more than us the humans. This gives the powerful effect of making us feel empathy as if someone like Death cares so much then, shouldn’t we?