An artistic use of foreshadowing
“Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me".
As we all noticed in The Book Thief (2009) by Markus Zusak, the narrator Death shows little interest in the events themselves. Instead, he pays more attention to events’ leading mechanism. For this reason, Zusak profoundly uses foreshadowing to satisfy this point. In the prologue for example, Zusak hints major events that happen later in the story. Even better, he tells how the story ends when he states that Liesel is a "perpetual survivor," indicating that everyone around her is going to die! However, Zusak unique writing technique does not “spoil” the end as some may say, but in fact, attracts the reader even more.
Similarly, Zusak’s ingenious use of foreshadowing had left me fairly at ease yet glued to the book. Unlike other books I read before, I wasn’t impatient or irritated to know what happens next. In fact, I didn’t feel the want to skip pages to find out what happens later in the book. There was no need for me to do so! Zusak has already reveled to me what is going to happen. What is truly left for me to do is to learn how it happened. For example, Death telling us the three incidents when he met “The Book Thief”, or when Death describes the story as “a small story… about, among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery.
As we all noticed in The Book Thief (2009) by Markus Zusak, the narrator Death shows little interest in the events themselves. Instead, he pays more attention to events’ leading mechanism. For this reason, Zusak profoundly uses foreshadowing to satisfy this point. In the prologue for example, Zusak hints major events that happen later in the story. Even better, he tells how the story ends when he states that Liesel is a "perpetual survivor," indicating that everyone around her is going to die! However, Zusak unique writing technique does not “spoil” the end as some may say, but in fact, attracts the reader even more.
Similarly, Zusak’s ingenious use of foreshadowing had left me fairly at ease yet glued to the book. Unlike other books I read before, I wasn’t impatient or irritated to know what happens next. In fact, I didn’t feel the want to skip pages to find out what happens later in the book. There was no need for me to do so! Zusak has already reveled to me what is going to happen. What is truly left for me to do is to learn how it happened. For example, Death telling us the three incidents when he met “The Book Thief”, or when Death describes the story as “a small story… about, among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery.