As previously promised, I am posting some questions to prompt discussion for the meeting this weekend to start the conversation. Please come with additional questions if you have them!
Questions for Discussion
- This book was written in third-person narrative, from the perspective of Death. What did you like about that? What didn’t you like about it?
- Which character did you feel enhanced the theme of the book the most? How so?
- This book has won multiple Young Adult/Childrens’ book awards, but some people do not think that it reads as a young adult book. What are your thoughts?
- Compare this book to other young adult Holocaust/World War II books that you have read. What distinguishes it from others, such as Number the Stars (Lois Lowry), The Upstairs Room (Johanna Reiss), and Milkweed (Jerry Spinelli) for instance?
- Tell me what you thought about Liesel’s obsession with reading, and then eventually writing? Discuss the ways that it saved her life.
- Did you enjoy the German words interspersed throughout the text? Do you think it added authenticity, or was it distracting?
- The Book Thief is currently in movie production. Do you think this book will translate well to the screen?
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