Cardrona It’s mid winter, the air is dusted with ice as it grips the stiffly frozen plants. Their leaves stand tall, locked in place by the shimmering crystals that litter the hillside. The sky is stained by a burning orange that paints the rocky mountain tops. The pure white that blankets the mountains is woken […]

you have to live with the consequences of your decisions I watched from afar, as my absence flooded their thoughts. A shadow of guilt started to grow behind me. You see it all started on a sunny morning high in the mountain tops, I watched as the helicopter blades forced themselves round at the control […]

Through the writing of Markus Zusak in the book Thief, Zusak translates the idea that we as members of society should challenge our preconceptions and ideas. Zusak uses the book thief to force the reader to see the bigger picture and remove our comfortable assumptions, that modern day society would not be capable of the […]

Challenges readers preconceptions by the use Markus Zusak uses the Book Thief to conceive the idea that we as readers should challenge our preconceptions and the world that we live in. He does this though the use of Hans Huberman. During the march of the jews through the streets of Molching Hans reaches out and […]

“She was beaten in the dark, and she had remained there, on a cold, dark kitchen floor. Even papas music was the colour of darkness. Even papas music” = statement =explaining/overall ideas =language =quote Markus Zussak uses colours to present deeper meanings behind the text, he also uses darkness which is a lack of colour […]

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Symbols: “First the colours, then the humans, Thats usually how I see things, or at least how I try” This is the first line of the book which tells us that colours are a large significance during the book and will portray some emotional or ideas that are high significance towards the deeper meaning of […]