The Book Thief Book Vs Movie

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The Book thief tells the story of a young German girl named Liesel. Liesel sees her brother die in front of her and end up getting adopted by Hans and Rosa Hubermann. While struggling to deal with the lost of her brother, the reality of Nazi Germany and trying to hide a jewish man in her basement, she finds comfort in stealing books and sharing them with others. The Book Thief book by Markus Zusak is better than the Book Thief movie directed by Brian Percival. The narrative character poorly uses the narrator Death. The details the removed took away from the effectiveness of the plot. The set designed was unrealistic and poorly designed.

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When there’s change there is always a risk,The Book Thief is no different. On top of leaving out too much details, Percival also changed the plot. All though the book and the movie both acknowledge that Liesel and Max didn’t instantly become best friends, the movie leaves and important element that brings the two closer together. The element is dreaming. In the book, Max and Liesel bonds over the dreams they dream. Liesel tells Max about her nightmare of watching her brother die all over again and Max's tells Liesel about his nightmare about leaving his family behind and his dream about fighting Hitler. Theses nightmares and dreams help break the ice between the two and help Liesel realize that the jewish men that society tells her to hate isn’t that different from her. The movie focuses more on the fact that they both have lost their mothers because of Hitler. If the movie would of included Max and Liesel’s bond over their nightmares and dreams, the relationship between the two would of been even closer. Thus making it more powerfully when he decides to leave and for when he sees her after the bombs. Another detail that the movie decided to remove was Liesel and Rudy stealing fruit. Before Liesel steals her first book from the mayor's house, she and her best friend Rudy find a group of older boys were they often steal fruit from the farms. This was Liesel first experience with stealing and also give the reader an understanding of how poor Rudy and Liesel was alongside most of Munich. In addition to leaving theses two elements Brian Percival also changed the plot line of The Book Thief. He made Rudy find out about Max and changed the story of the book in the river. This was one of Brian Percival biggest risk when it coming to changing the plot line. This risk didn’t pay off. Making Rudy find out about Max changed the plotline and

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