The Book Thief Setting Analysis

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Setting is the time and place during which a story takes place. It helps the reader visualize the surroundings of the story, and can be extremely important to the book. For example, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, takes place in the fictional town of Molching, Germany, not far from the non-fictional town Munich, between the years of 1939 and 1943. The setting is significant to the story because Germany is one of two countries to be attacked by the Nazis during World War 2, and that helps build the plotline. To be more specific, the setting of the story is on Himmel street, which means “Heaven,” and Death, (the narrator) mentions that it is very ironic for the road to be called Heaven Street, because there is nothing heavenly about the place.

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