• 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 defies the preconceptions of society by helping a jew to his feet and giving him bread, he is whipped on the streets for it and shamed by the people around him which represent society. In this moment Markus Zusak uses Hans to force the reader to rethink the world they live in as the emotional pity they feel towards not only the jews but Hans as well. Us as the readers become more emotionally focused on this moment as Markus zusak uses the next action to force the readers challenge the preconceptions and ideas of society that are considered the norm. This moment forces the reader to challenge society and to rethink how an environment where this can happen can exist and be excepted by society.