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    A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief (lit-to-film)"
    A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief (lit-to-film)"
    A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief (lit-to-film)"
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    A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief (lit-to-film)"

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    A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief (lit-to-film)", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781535845717
    A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief (lit-to-film)"

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      A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief (lit-to-film)" - Gale

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      The Book Thief (lit-to-film)

      Markus Zusak

      2013

      Introduction

      The film adaptation of the 2006 young-adult novel The Book Thief was released in November of 2013 by Fox 2000 Pictures and was directed by Brian Percival, best known for the period drama series Downton Abbey. Starring thirteen-yearold Canadian actor Sophie Nelisse as Liesel Meminger and veteran actors Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson as her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, the movie was eagerly anticipated after the worldwide success of Australian author Markus Zusak's novel. The film and the book tell the story of Liesel, a young girl who is adopted by foster parents in World War II Germany when both her parents are persecuted by the Nazis for their political beliefs.

      While the movie itself received mixed critical reviews, the performances by Nelisse, Rush, and Watson were well regarded, Nelisse was nominated for several awards in youth actor categories, and both Rush and Watson were nominated for industry supporting actor and actress awards. The only Academy Award nomination for the film, however, came for celebrated composer John Williams, who wrote the score. (He lost to Steven Price, who wrote the score for the outer space drama Gravity.) The movie was a modest success at the box office, bringing in over $76 million worldwide during its theatrical release.

      The novel on which the movie was based was a worldwide phenomenon, spending more than five hundred weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and selling over ten million copies worldwide. Critical reception of the book was far more positive than that of the film. It won the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and was also named to Best Books of the Year lists by both Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal.

      Plot Summary

      In the film's first scene, the camera flies through the clouds as Death, the film's narrator, warns viewers that they are someday going to die. The clouds clear away, and viewers see a long overhead shot of a train moving rapidly through a snowy landscape. Inside the train is LieselMeminger, seated next to her mother and little brother. Liesel looks at her brother and realizes that he has died in her mother's arms. In the next scene, her brother's burial, a book falls from one of the grave diggers' pockets, and Liesel picks it up. It is her first stolen book.

      Liesel is driven to her new home on Himmel Street. (Himmel is heaven in German.) Her mother, a communist fleeing Adolf Hitler's regime, arranged for Liesel and her brother to go to the home of Hans and Rosa Hubermann, so they would be safe from persecution. Now it is only Liesel. Rosa Hubermann is harsh and curt and calls everyone "Saukerl or Saumensch." Both are profane insults; Sau translates literally to pig. Hans Hubermann, however, is warm and jovial

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