People in East Germany were put under the social system of Communism after WWII after the Soviets claimed there a part of Germany due to the agreements between the Allies and Soviets.

After WWII Russia had been hit hard by the war and many of there factories, roads, bridges, cities and other infrastructure and other supply chains had been destroyed when the German armies invaded mainland Russia in 1941 and Russia had to devote a huge amount of the rest of the country’s resources in military power rarther than repairs to there country to hold off the invasion. This left Russia resources relatively low and did not have the manpower to fix what had been damaged.

To solve this Russia came into East Germany and seized a great amount german citizens, factories supply to go back to mainland Russia to fix these repairs. Russia basically took everything from East Germany that would help rebuild russia as this was thier primarily concern.

Meanwhile, the Allies that also had major damage done to them made it their primary goal to help rebuild and reeducate West German citizens and make the country a better place as they didn’t want a repeat of what happened after WWI(which is what lead WW2 beginning)(although they did dissarm West germany in the process). Ultimatley the West geamans also had choice and were allowed to travel else where unlike East germans.

The Allies also introduced the Duche mark currency to West Germany which greatly out valued the currency of East Germany. This is what lead to West Germanys economic recovery.

Also between 1945-50 its approximated that well over 500,000 perhaps even close to a million women were raped after the red army came through East Germany. Some victums were assulted up to 70-80 times. This all happend as the soviets didn’t have a proper law system up and running in East Germany yet. The only controll they had was the red army them selves which wernt peace keepers, they were soliders. Now we cant complty deny that this didnt happen in the West as it is approximated that nealy 100000 may of been raped by US soliders in the west.

There is numrence amounts of other things such as the berlin wall which was to hold all East germans in as many wanted to leave to the West for a better life

Environment

Plastic, global warming and greenhouse gases. We have a global crisis and our planet is suffering heavily due to big companies owners disregard our environment for their own convenience. So to show our sympathy to the planet we no longer use plastic bags and instead cut down trees for paper ones.

Analyse how one or more characters increased your understanding of setting

Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief characters are used to challenge our preconceived idea that the people of Nazi Germany were evil and responsible for the holocaust. The text exposes the suppression and control that the Nazi party had over their citizens during the Nazi Rein and therefore shows us the mindsets and sacrifices the citizens made. Ultimately we see how they were not all bad people and that they were people like us. This also shows the vulnerability that societies like ours are also capable of being brought to knees and being feed one-sided beliefs. This is determined through the use of three distinct characters who each play a very different role in the novel. One shows the suppression of the morals of an insignificant character shows the thoughts of the larger population. A hero who stands by his morals by defying the Nazi ideology but by doing so explains the dangers that come with it.and the omniscient narrator Death surreal view on the world.

The Book Thief explores the fear many German citizens possessed regarding bravery to speak out during the Nazi reign. This is achieved by showing the thoughts of a background character: “Somewhere far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out”. This quote uses the metaphor to illustrate a normal german citizen’s true morals, his true feelings towards the Jews as they make they way to a concentration camp. The itch that the German refers to exhibits his feeling of uncomfortableness as he watches the Nazis torture the Jews, however, he doesn’t ‘scratch’ this itch due to the fatal repercussions he may face as a consequence. When the German says he is “afraid of what might come leaking out,” it is suggested that he is far more uncomfortable than he may appear to be. The Book Thief challenges the preconceptions that all Nazis at the time of World War II were immoral and heartless people because although their actions are unjust, behind a despised uniform dwells a man uncertain in his country’s motives and concern for another race. The power comes with the thoughts of a
simple background character, whose role is seemingly insignificant,
which indicates that many people are not confined to Hitler’s reign. They don’t like what they are seeing but are paralyzed with fear as they know speaking out could give them the same fate. This lead people to see only what they wanted to see and live life as normal as possible. From a
historical point of view, we know this is true as the Nazis had slowly indoctrinated everyone into their beliefs, and anyone who didn’t like it and tried to speak out would be punished significantly or even killed.
This also shows how societies such as ours, no matter how safe they seem, are vulnerable to this same cause. Zusak tells when a hand as
unmovable and ruthless like the one of Nazi Germany’s has a hold over
your nation, then their thoughts are yours.

The heroes that lived in Nazi Germany took the biggest risks. Zusak shows us a character who does not sacrifice his morals for his own safety. Instead, he takes a silent, lonely step into helping those that weren’t as fortunate as he. He shows us that just because everyone else may believe in something doesn’t mean you have to. Zusak uses character whose strength comes through as kindness to illustrate this. “Trust was accumulated quickly due primally to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness“. The oxymoron of brute strength and gentleness highlights Hans’s kindness towards their newly adopted daughter of danger. We find out that this adopted child is from a communist father. Communists were considered a danger and a inbreed to the Nazis and just like all the rest of their ideas they fed it to the people of Germany. If Hans believed what he was told then he should hate this girl and the last thing he should do is look after her. However, Hans sees beyond what he is told and does not surrender his morals for his own safety. Instead, he takes the risk of looking after this girl, hiding her identity and share what little resources that he has with her. This does put Hans in a dangerous situation where he could face punishment. He also takes in a stranded Jew. This shows Hans’s selflessness by risking his life and what little resources he has to help people who may otherwise be doomed. Hans does not sacrifice or alter his morals as many other German citizens did through the fear that Nazis subdued onto them. Hans because of this is a hero who defies the Nazi ideology and gives us a glimpse to the heroes of nazi Germany.
However, as evident in the book these heroes are spread thin as most were not were simply too scared to face the consequences. The only way to stand up against this is if everyone rises up together and fight back in what they believe in which is asking a miracle when you feel like the only one. Markus Zusak shows us how our society is susceptible to this as going with everyone else in society is the natural, safe thing to do. In some ways, we are already going through this through things like social media where unknowingly we are told what to think even its just the simple stuff like what’s good to wear. It takes wisdom to realise when its happening and bravery to stand up to them.

The surreal, Omniscient narrator of the novel The Book Theif Death has the unique ability to be able to see everything that occurs where there is life. As we see throughout the novel Death is unable to understand why the Nazis did what they did but he also questions why very few people stood up to them and simply just bowed their heads. Death uses two guards as an example of this. “When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?”.
The guards are a metaphor for the people of Germany
Deaths view shows People just did what they were told by the superiors.
However, in reality, there were a lot more citizens than officers
Deaths view tells us that their were many people that didn’t like fully following the Nazis rule.
This shows how fear managed to cripple there society
This shows how Nazi Germany was unable to stand up against this
This shows the importance to stand up to something you believe in

Zusak has shown through the novel how the citizens within Nazi
Germany was indoctrinated into their beliefs and was forced into the suspension of their own beliefs. This was done by the extensive control the government had over media, products and leaders. This is also evident as we have brought up all our lives that the Nazis were evil people.

Intro
Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief is set in Nazi Germany 1939. Throughout the novel there are many references to the power of words towards the Nazi ideology. He does this by using language features such as metaphors and symbolism to show how to challenge our view of the citizens of Nazi Germany. They lived in our society like our own but were indoctrinated by the figureheads of their nation to their own beliefs. This was done by the sheer power that words can contain, and how a few swayed a whole nation.

Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief shows us how vulnerable our society can be in colluding to atrocities by reframing. This is done by reshowing events of the Holocaust in the middle of the 20th century in a new light. Characteristics of some characters are used to give us a deeper insight into the true reality of the citizens of Nazi Germany and how they were not all bad people and that they were much like us, only they were suppressed from voicing their opinions or creating a argument.

Purpose of the Book
Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief shows the idea of how vulnerable society can be in colluding to atrocities by reframing and reseeing the events of the Holocaust in the middle of the 20th century. It is written in the genre of magical realism which helps the reader see something familiar in a new light.
Characters such as Death, Rudy, Hans and an old painter show how a society like thiers is much like our own. It also gives us get a deeper understanding of life in Nazi Germany and how most of the German population were not bad people but were manipulated by Nazi society. This also shows how vulnerable society like ours are to this.

Analyse how one or more characters increased your understanding of setting

The character of Rudy shows us the nature of

How could she walk? How could she move? That’s the sort of thing I’ll never know, or comprehend

Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief shows us that many German citizens during the Nazi rein by showing were not evil people as preconceptions might tell us but rarther normal human beings. This is shown through many characters throughout the book. “Trust was accumulated quickly due primally to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness“. The oxymoron of brute strength and gentleness highlights Hans’s kindness towards their newly adopted daughter in which they gain trust for one another. We see selflessness that Hans shows when we find out that the adopted child is from a communist father who was taken by the Nazis as they do not “fit” in the nazi society. This puts Hans in a dangerous situation by keeping a child with this “blood” as if the Nazis found out he was hosting her he could face serious charges and perhaps death. This shows Hans’s selflessness by risking his lifestyle and what little resources he has to help a girl who may otherwise be doomed. This shows us that there indeed compassionate people in Nazi Germany.

Hans does not give up or alter his morals as many other German citizens did in Nazi Germany through fear. He did not hate Jews. This shows that not all Germans were bad but were suppressed so most were forced to

Somewhere far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate

I am Haunted by Human

The novel continues to show us the normality“I was being Jesse Owens.” He answered as though it was the most natural thing on earth to be doing” Rudy’s naiveness to the Nazis hatred towards “blacks” shows us. This further shows us that not all germans

Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief shows us that not everyone carries the harsh Nazi views in Nazi Germany by showing us a kid who dresses up as his hero. “I was being Jesse Owens.” He answered as though it was the most natural thing on earth to be doing”
Rudy dresses up as Jessie Owens by painting himself black when he goes for a run and he does it without the knowledge of the danger of he’s putting himself in.
This is dangerous in a society such as Nazi Germany because to them black people of a lower class and in many cases were taken away.
Rudy’s nativity to this fact shows us that although they are ruthlessly taught the Nazi ideology throughout school, it doesn’t stop him dressing up as his favourite hero who doesn’t fit there society. Rudy’s friends know that its dangerous and are struck by fear when they realise what he is doing because they know what he is doing is insulting in the eyes of the Nazis. Although they don’t say it allowed

Conclusion
Zusak has shown through the novel how the citizens within Nazi Germany were indoctrinated into their beliefs and were forced into the suspension of their own beliefs. This was done by the extensive control the government had over media, products and leaders. However, comparing our society to Nazi Germany we can see many similarities.

Explain how our society is much like Nazi Germany and ho we are also vulnerable, Use examples such as social media for how we are being manipulated, Explain how Zusack was successful by using the genre of magical realism by deaths god view

Kommuisten… A single word leaned against the girl

I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result

There is Death… On the surface: Unflappable, Unwavering. Below: Unnerved, untied and undone.

Question: Analyse how the writer sees the personal value of taking a photo

Notes: Memories attached to pictures
Lost to the wind (a metaphor for time)
Sticks their hand out to catch it (a metaphor for a photo)
Torn and crumpled (Metaphor for a crumpled photo or even if the photo is not that good its the memories contained by it)
“live in the moment”Quoting for
Memories as they fall away like sand in an hourglass (How memories fade and less able to relive moments. Also symbolism for time)
They’ll be safe, stored in crystal frames….Instead of the fragile murky mind
A few tiny pixels on my phone (insignificant a photo by itself is, but how powerful they are with the memories)

Themes
Time
Memories

Cathrine Norman illustrates the importance of photographs in the short story “Why not” by explaining how memories are lost easily throughout our lives, but by taking a photo is a way to hold onto them.

One way is by metaphor when she describes the losing memories to the wind. “Lost to the wind“. The metaphor wind is used to describe times nature as a constant force that “blows” memories away, And the further they get blown away, the harder they are to pick up again. The importance of taking a photograph comes in when another metaphor is used. “Unless someone Sticks their hand out to catch it” This is a metaphor that you can catch the memory that is being blown away, and the way to catch this by taking a photograph. The word use of catch also gives the idea that the world is throwing memories, experiences are being thrown to us all the time and its up to us which ones we decide to keep.

The text goes on showing how time pulls these memories out of us and alters them by using metaphor and symbolism of time by an hourglass. “Memories as they fall away like sand in an hourglass“. Each second that passes more sand comes down the hour glass. The memories (the sand) are located at the top but after each second more sand falls to the bottom of the hourglass. This shows how easily our memories are lost as time will constantly age them and let them fall to the bottom of the hourglass. The importance of taking a photograph is to capture these memories so when we look back at them it brings the memory back.”They’ll be safe, stored in crystal frames…Instead of the fragile murky mind” This supports this idea as the photo is “safe” whitch suggests it was once in danger. The danger is time taking it away. But once a photo is taken its been saved. This is referring to a photo being we store photos in crystal frames. This is then contrasted to our mind where its “Fragile“ whitch shows that the photos keep these memories much safer than our mind as our mind is weak and easily warped by time. Altering our memories.
Finally, it is shown that a photo on its own doesn’t mean a lot. But rarther what the photo means is the why photos are important. This is done by patronizing the photo on his phone. “A few tiny pixels on my phone” whitch shows that a photo is its own is just a few pixels and that they are tiny. But this occurs at the end and we know after we have read it that its the memories of the moment where the photo was taken that give the photo real meaning. This shows that do save these memories because they bring us back to moment through site and allow us to relive them in our imaginations.

Question: Analyse how the writer shows the challenge the musicians face in preparation for the photograph

The actual Challenges

“The conductor shed his and was lashed by the whip of snow crossed air” Metaphor for the cold bite of the air. Furthermore “snow crossed air”

Question: Analyse how the writer shows that the same two things can be experienced in different ways.

Contrasting Narrative: “Unseen pits vipers coiled in deadly poise on saplings”
“Daylight was fading fast and the steep jungle track, slippery and unfamiliar.”
“The crimson sunset was a dramatic backdrop to the bats that pursued insetcs”

The writer shows hows two things can be viewed differently by the contrasting narrative. In the first section of the piece deals with a character who views the place shes in as dangerous.”Daylight was fading fast and the steep jungle track, slippery and unfamiliar.” The word choice of “daylight Fading fast” followed by how the track was slippery and unfamiliar builds tension as this environment it seems that she is lost is an unforgiving environment. However, in the second section, we see a different view in the manner. “The crimson sunset was a dramatic backdrop to the bats that pursued insects” This character sees the environment around him as intriguing and the impending darkness in more of a peaceful manner. He sees the environment as a peaceful manner because hes not viewing the possible dangers around him and instead is looking past that and seeing the world in a positive mindset.

The text goes on talking about the science of the human brain and why some people view two situations in the same way by using facts. “Your brain processes sensory information recognizes that information for what it is.” whitch the writer explains is to a piece of the brain called the Amygdala which process this information and is different for everyone. This then leads on for why people experience two different versions of events as some different hormones in this same situations. Some may feel fear while others feel excitement etc. Which leads people to have different responses as the contrast at the end shows “That’s a bat” and “THAT’S A BAT!!!” which further supports this as the contrast of their 2 different responses. I would then go on to say.

People are made up of many fragments.
Delicate but precise
Each has a different shape, a different colour and a different meaning.
Each one contains a realm of feelings.
These fragments are built through the rivers of time.
Through the experiences of our human life.
Significant
Or not.
They are Built inside our sunny smiles,
to the depths and the cracks of an empty abyss.
Those are the times when we want to just curl up and vanish
from all eyes.
Hide me from it all.

Humans
We feel stuff
Its the gift that contains a curse
A gift that is given whether you want it or not.
It holds you
To see what it wants you to see
It crawls inside you
Aware or not
And makes you feel

It can be a torturous trap.
It can be fertile freedom.

The sun soaks your skin
Smiles creep to your lips
Eyes glint as you laugh with them
Your chest rises beyond the sky
as happiness flow within your veins
A fragment that is you

We are all of our fragments pieced together to fit a puzzle that is you.
We feel Love, Heartbreak, regret, happiness the list continues.
Their are those times when your world twists and swirls to a point where you feel your insides go against it. Because it does bad. Sometimes very bad.
You are a creature that has this gift and it gives you the best times of your life, from the big to the little and unnoticed. If you cant see a

Classroom
Tables and seats. People and machine. The tapping of keyboards releases a fluttering echo. The timeless clock makes the second’s drag pass as tangled thoughts wander inside the minds of the unnoticed. Warmth seeps into your skin as the chill(?) enviously waits.

Entering school
The wind speaks as you walk.
The clouds cover as you watch.
The cold feeds as we wander
our separate ways.

Question: How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief

Ideas
Purely death based would involve the 2 alike paragraphs based on what I know and implement them
Challenges our preconceptions of death that we as human beings are responsible for our actions
Challenges our preconceptions by using Death to show that Death is misunderstood and that we have the potential to be the monsters that we write in our books and watch on our screens.

Death.

Quotes for Magical realism
“what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe“
“It relies upon realism, but only so that it can stretch what is acceptable as real to its limits“

Introduction.
What is death
Living in shade/fear of death
Preconceptions of death
Application of using death in book theif
We are the monsters we put into our books and watch on our screens
Magical Realism

History and purpose magical realism (draft)
It is often written and presented as realism to shine familiar light upon the reader so the text remains in the realm of possibility; However, it is not Realism because it contains an unearthly element. It is the convergence of these two elements that give the text the ability to alter the reader’s view on society. This creates the opportunity for the reader to view the magical element in the realm of reality. The realm of reality with the magical element within leads to the reader to change their views where the element is placed because they now have the view of society with the twist that the author has intended,.

p1
Death doesn’t kill anyone because he is a result. I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result”

p2 “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 is powerless in this situation of seeing all these people die as he is a result. He is powerless and has to not watch (like us) but be a part of it. He sympathizes with them.
End with Even Death has a heart

p3 Death then hinting at us that we are the bad one. “You really want to know what I truly look like?… Find yourself a mirror while I continue”. Death begins to pin the responsibility onto us. We are the main cause of death. More aforementioned.
Bulids up a bit of tension of what he is going to look like only to mislead us into telling us its humans.

p4 Deaths overall fear of humans a by I am haunted by humans quote which fully shows that we are the ones who are responsible for all of it
Talk about all of the colour metaphors as one
There is Death… On the surface: Unflappable, Unwavering. Below: Unnerved, untied and undone. Therefore Meaning he is scared of humans. Extensive use of alliteration of un.

There is Death… On the surface: Unflappable, Unwavering. Below: Unnerved, untied and undone. Therefore Meaning he is scared of humans. Extensive use of alliteration of un. As each page is unfolded Death reveals his fears more and more. He unfolds the curtains that hides a monster. 
I am haunted by humans is Deaths final remark to the reader showing humans are the monsters.

conclusion
Classic
Brief statement about death
sum it all up
Don’t be scared of death, it is not the monster
Something to tie it all up

Changes
This is because they place the magical element close alongside the overall meaning of the book so that the magical element that is too strange to believe forces us to see aspects of society that we have not seen before

They were not done in the pages of any book. eg Not an almighty being

This is regarding the mass number of Jews being gassed and ‘almighty’ Death who lives in the clouds is sympathizing over their souls.

Death sympathizing with >Thier< souls also creates a compelling effect of empathy from the reader because if Death cares for the souls of something that’s not him, because he’s not human, then shouldn’t we as humans care?

skull replacement replaced for a face. 

He is the only source that isn’t an opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism