PB2A

November 10, 2016

 Sekou A. Bility

 Professor Zack Depiero

PB2A

For my PB2A, I will be analyzing moves from a book tittle The Book Thief; and it is about a little girl by the name Liesel Menninger as illiterate and a book thief. This book is written by Markus Zusak from Germany. I choose this book because it is a book of love, friendship, courage, death, grief and survival. I came up with three moves the author used that are listed in They Say, I Say Appendix and they are, Capturing Authorial Action, Introducing Quotations, Explaining Quotation, Establishing Why Your Claim Matter, and Indicating Who Care.

That being said, the author Markus Zusak first move he used is Capturing Authorial Action. For instance, the tittle of the book itself The Book Thief can capture authorial action.  Zusak believed that he chooses this title because it means everything to him. How his grandmother told a story of War World 1 in Germany that also make he to choose this title; and he used death as the narrator. This first move that the author make will the reader to have more interest in the book which of course is important. For very writer, your first move should be very clean and attractive to the reader.

Secondly, Establishing Why Your Claim Matter is another move the author made by establishing the fact that this book is a book of friendship, love, survival, courage, death, grief, and that the book means everything to him. Again, the author used this move so that the reader knows what the book is about and how important it is to him. Some might be move to read this book because he/she likes to know why this is book is death or some might even look at friendship, and grief. Thirdly, introducing Quotation is an important move that Zusak used to give facts or support his arguments, which of course help the reader in scanning the book. He also used this move to portray what is spoken by other people that back up his claim. For example, “Thought-provoking, life affirming, triumphant and tragic, this is a novel of breathtaking scope, masterfully told. It is an important piece of work, but also a wonderful page-tuner.” The Guardian (UK) For me that is so significant, we need to distinguish between speaking and thinking. This give make readers to build a kind of trust in the author book

In addition, Explaining Quotations, this move help the readers understand in clean detail the quotes Zusak used to backup or portray his facts in real life. For instance, “privileges? Like running barefoot through the snow? Like jumping from ten-meter platforms into three feet of water?”.  Zusak explained this that Liesel Menninger best friend Rudy is asked to join the army of the Nazi party in Germany; and he was to be taken to the army school for a training. And the Nazi were creating an elite group of German citizens in the name of the Hitler.

Indicating Who Care, a move the author made to indicate the fact that he started work on the book. As a writer, he begins every book knowing it will mean something to him, but the with The Book Thief, he has been very fortunate. He writes, “it’s the book that means everything to me”. From this we learned that the Author himself care so much about the book. People who love friendship, love, courage and survival will also care. On the other hand, I came up with one move that the author should have include in They say, I Say appendix is Defining Unfamiliar Worlds. This can help readers comprehend a sentence or a paragraph that the author write. For example, “Saumensch” (Read) is a German word that Zusak used in his book. If a person who is reading this book comes across this word, he or she will be confuse because is an unfamiliar word. The author defined it not to put readers in a confuse state.

To summarize, Moves are very in important when the author use them in his or her book. They drive the reader to focus and have more interest in the book they are reading. For every writer, your first move should be very clean and attractive to the reader. However, a book, an article, a movie, and a magazine, without some moves they will be bored to the reader.