For example, Death's emphasis on colors as a way of avoiding tragedy contrasts with the horrific and unavoidable redness of a firebombed city. In one moment, there was great kindness and great cruelty, and I saw it as the perfect story of how humans are." ( )īoth the bombing of Munich and the Holocaust, as expressed by Zusak's mother, figure strongly in The Book Thief. Then he chased the boy and whipped him for giving him the bread in the first place. He tore the bread from the man's hands and whipped him for taking it. The man fell to his knees and kissed the boy's ankles and thanked him. When a teenage boy saw this, he ran inside and brought the man a piece of bread.
At the back of the line, there was an old man, totally emaciated, who couldn't keep up. One day, there was a terrible noise coming from the main street of town, and when she ran to see it, she saw that Jewish people were being marched to Dachau, the concentration camp. The second was about something else she saw. The first was about Munich being bombed, and how the sky was on fire, how everything was red. "Two stories my mother told me affected me a lot. Of his mother's influence, Zusak has said: Zusak's mother was a German who grew up in Munich, where she witnessed firsthand both the intense bombing of that city by Allied planes and the degradation of the Jews during the Holocaust.
Zusak's father, a house painter, was an Austrian who spent the war in Vienna, which in 1945 was besieged and captured by the Soviet Red Army. Zusak has said that much of the inspiration for The Book Thief came from the stories his parents would tell him when he was a child. Markus Zusak began his career as a successful writer of young adult fiction, but for his fifth novel, Zusak set out to relate the experiences of his parents growing up during World War II for an adult audience.
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