Examples Of Kindness In The Book Thief

When the word ‘beauty’ comes up, most people think about beauty in a physical sense, but there is more to beauty than what meets the eye. A person may seem beautiful on the outside, but true beauty comes from within and from the heart. Kindness is one type of beauty and kindness is the type of beauty that has the power to make an impact on people’s lives and spread love to other people. Kindness is beautiful because of the simplicity of it and when it is an unexpected and rare thing that is what makes kindness all the more beautiful. In the novel, The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak shows how beauty can still be found in the midst of the brutality that is present during the war through kindness. Zusak exhibits the beauty of kindness through friendship,

Another example would be when Rudy “arrived first, with cluttered breath and what appeared to be a toolbox. With great trepidation, he approached the cockpit and watched the pilot, gauging if he was alive, at which point, he still was… From the toolbox, the boy took out, of all things, a teddy bear. He reached in through the torn windshield and placed it on the pilot’s chest” (Zusak 9). As it was stated before, Kindness is beautiful because of the simplicity of it and when it is an unexpected and rare thing that is what makes kindness all the more beautiful. The moments in which Rudy and Hans give comfort to the less fortunate or unfortunate may be simple but because of the rarity of kindness shown towards Jews or the dying during Hitlers reign it makes their kindness and generosity even more beautiful than what it would be had it been in a normal setting. Compared to the amount of cruelty and suffering that goes on during the war, the acts of kindness that the characters in the novel display are undoubtedly