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The Book Thief Online Worksheet

Write brief answers during viewing. Use character choices and scene evidence for your analysis.

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Before viewing

1. How can language be used to control people?

2. What changes when a story has an unusual narrator?

Part A · Arrival and words

3. How does Liesel’s arrival establish loss and uncertainty?

4. How does Hans begin to build trust with her?

5. Why does learning to read matter to Liesel?

6. How does Rudy’s friendship affect her experience?

7. What does the book-burning event reveal about power?

Part B · Secrecy and connection

8. Why does Liesel take a book from the aftermath?

9. Why does Max need to hide?

10. What risks does the household take by sheltering him?

11. How do Liesel and Max connect through words?

12. How does the mayor’s wife complicate Liesel’s access to books?

Part C · War and remembrance

13. Why does Hans’s public gesture of help create danger?

14. How does Max’s departure affect Liesel?

15. What does the air-raid shelter sequence suggest about storytelling?

16. How does the bombing aftermath change the story?

After viewing

17. Which scene shows words serving connection rather than control?

18. How does Death’s narration shape one moment?

19. How does a selected novel passage differ from the film?

20. What historical question requires evidence beyond this story?

Final written response

How can words serve both control and human connection? Write a paragraph with a clear claim, evidence from two scenes, and reasoning. End with one limitation of the film’s portrayal or one question for further study.

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