Text To Text: The Book Theif

     Imagine hiding someone in your basement, but if anyone finds out about it you could die or be tortured. That is the feeling Liesle from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak . She has lost her mother and brother and she had never met her dad. She now has to live with her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She steals her first book from her brothers graveside, then from the Nazi;s book-burning, then the mayors wife , and where every they are to be found. In these times there was little money and food yet Liesel's foster parent took in a Jew, even though they knew the consequence.
     Rosa and Hans bravery reminds me of a character in The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman. Jan and Antonina use their zoo to put Jews in an abandoned animal habitats and hide them from the Nazi's, who want them dead. Both characters know the danger of what their doing, but do it to save the lives of others. Jan and Antonina saved 500 Jewish lives, and you can still visit the zoo today.
     I love the way these stories can relate to each other and even though at the time everyone thought they were doing the wrong thing they did it anyway and now we see them as heroes. Imagining the setting of The Book Thief is kind of sad to think about and the conditions they lived in. The Book Thief is a really good book to connect to is so many different ways because their are so many different side to this one book.