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This is a list of texts that fit The Book Thief by theme, setting, or historical context. Narrative point of view is an another aspect of interest. You are welcome too add other titles and comments to this list. the importance of writing and story-telling, about how storytelling can both betray and redeem us the power of words the storyteller has control over the ending ||  ||   ||< __**//The Violinist//: //Clare Galambos Winter Holocaust Survivor//,**__ __**by Sarah Gaitanos.**__ Clare is a talented 19 year old violin student in Budapest when the Germans occupy Hungaryin 1944. This biography traces her journey to Auschwitz and her immigration to NZ where she becomes an esteemed member of the NZ Symphony Orchestra. She endures horrors and needs to show fortitude and resilience to survive the war. grief, displacement, avoiding detection, hiding, musical talent as a survival strategy || __**Atonement,**__ directed by Joe Wright Connection: the power of words to redeem and destroy ||  ||   || Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America. Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving. Offred serves the Commander and his wife, Serena Joy, a former gospel singer and advocate for “traditional values.” Offred is not the narrator’s real name—Handmaid names consist of the word “of” followed by the name of the Handmaid’s Commander. Every month, when Offred is at the right point in her menstrual cycle, she must have impersonal, wordless sex with the Commander while Serena sits behind her, holding her hands. Offred’s freedom, like the freedom of all women, is completely restricted. __ **Connections:** __ __ control of thought, restriction of freedom, propaganda __ ||  ||   || __**//The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz//, by Denis Avey with**__ __**Rob Broomby.**__ This is a true story that beggars belief. Avey is a British soldier who smuggles himself into Auschwitz after swapping clothes with a Jewish inmate. He survives. What happens to the prisoner who agrees to the swap? this time from someone who chose to experience what the Jews suffered; WW2 **setting; themes** - friendship, resilience, moral and physical courage, deceiving others || __**Fahrenheit 451**__ directed by Francois Truffaud (based on novel by Ray Bradbury) Connection: ||  ||   || In 1942 13 year old Anne Frank and her family flee the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the upper floors of an Amsterdam warehouse. Here she stays for two years. Her diary ends abruptly when she and her family are discovered by the Nazis. anti-semitism; WW2 **setting**; **themes** - confinement and hiding to survive, teenage angst, friendship, the power of literature, reflection and writing in helping a character make sense of the world, fear of betrayal ||  ||   ||   || No one believes the horror stories told by the 'alien' Jew, Moche the Beadle. After he miraculously escapes from the Gestapo, he tries to tell people about the atrocities they committed, but no one believes him or listens. He is thought to be a madman. Elie Wiesel himself refuses to believe him. This is a moving story about life inside a death camp. trust, survival, anti-semitism, physical and moral courage, father-son relationship ||  ||   ||   ||
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 * __**Atonement**__ by Ian McEwen - as for film
 * Connection**:
 * Connections**: WW2 **setting; themes -** anti-semitism, betrayal,
 * __**The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood**__
 * Connections**: An unusual **point of view** on the Holocaust,
 * ||  ||   || __**//The Diary of a Young Girl//, by Anne Frank.**__
 * Connections**: Gives the point of view of a teenage victim of
 * ||  ||   || __**//Night//, by Elie Wiesel.**__
 * Connections**: WW2 **setting**; **themes** - hiding to evade capture,