Time: Year, Month, Days, Time of day – research the historical events at this time in this place (be selective, be accurate, credit sources, relative to situation) 

Place: (prepositions: beyond, before, above)

Social: Politics (historical events), neighbourhood, publications, clubs, bonfire (social gathering) arts and literature, media within the text

Atmosphere: Choose 2 scenes and catalogue all information: touch, sight, smell, taste, sound. (sensory) 

Pathetic fallacy: setting reflects event eg rain, sad 

3D layout:

Magical realism: does the description make sense or fit?

Time and place (from history): 

what was it like what was going on at the time, laws rules, events, shown in the book. differences between then and present, discuss setting of Molching /atmosphere. 

The book thief is set in Nazi Germany between 1939-1942 during WWII (1939-1945). Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the nazi party ruled Germany throughout this period in history, resulting in the death of over 6 million European jews. 

nazi party helped recovery of ww1, built trust of public

social setting and atmosphere (from book):-molching isnt real, segregated from munich. Marcus Zusak has easily convinced his readers that the town of Molching is real, however this place doesn’t exist in Germany. Zusak has created this place in his readers minds by using factors of existing towns like molching to make his readers feel as though this place exists. By doing this his audience becomes aware of how easy it is to make people believe false information, and encourages them to be sceptical when being told information.

bonfire scene (book burning), propaganda

nation is persuaded easily as it is by higher authority: persecition, people protect yourself from this by not standing up for it. this is submisive (subtle) undermining is easy.

Compare an incident from history with the corresponding incident in the book, explore the accuracy of the book incident.

book burning:

history: books burned were those which opposed the ideas and practices that nazis followed/promoted this included texts written by jewish, pacifist, religious, socialist, communist etc authors. This was done to prevent these books influencing society’s views on the nazi community and to cleanse the community of jewish, communist etc religions/ideas. As opposed to previous book burnings in history which were simply symbolic protests, the book burnings which were done in Nazi Germany were essentially acts of censorship and destruction to others property.