I have never been so hard to myself for truly reading a book; therefore, when I knew I would have a reading project in Advanced Reading course, I had to go online, searched for some book titles and hoped to find out some which could meet my need. “The Book Thief” appeared to be my best choice at that time because it was a bestseller book, it was highly recommended by a lot of people; moreover, it was set in the time of Nazi Germany, the nightmare of all people in the world and even the German themselves, the time I wanted so much to get to know more. With all those reasons, I chose The Book Thief as the book for my reading project.
Like everybody said the book is good, especially for the author’s language. Markus Zusak’s writing is haunting, …show more content…
However, after I had finished reading the book, I regretted that I had chosen it. I realized the book did not suite me the way I had thought. It did not make me tremble with excitement as I had expected because the author had revealed all the important climaxes before they actually happened. For instance, the author told me that my favorite character, Rudy Steiner, was going to die soon and die in an extremely suffering way. That made me so upset and I did not want to continue reading the story anymore. Furthermore, the story’s ending is that part that I dislike the most. When reading a story about a young girl’s life, I’m looking for a happy ending; however, it was not as I had expected. Liesel Merminger, the main character of the story had to suffer a lot before she met her foster family, she had lived without knowing who her father was, had seen her beloved younger brother died with open-eyes on the train and had said goodbye to her mother forever without acknowledging that was the last time they met. I hoped life would be more beautiful to her with new parents. Actually, she had had a great time when her foster “papa” taught her to read and he played the accordion for her, as well as her “mama” cooked her food, she had a best friend who lived next door too. However, everything, everybody disappeared at the end of the story. Her foster parents, her friends, her neighbors, everybody died after a bomb attack leaving her alone in this world. The ending made me cry. Everything, everyone around you, you don’t know when you will lose them. This story taught me to appreciate and value all people, all things around me and especially those who has a special meaning to