This targeting themes activity for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak takes students through the process of coming to an understanding of how various elements of literature support themes. The elements focused on in this exercise are themes, setting, point of view, characters, and symbols. The point is for students to not only realize what the themes are in The Book Thief, but also how they are developed by the author through other literary devices.
Three themes from The Book Thief are provided as