Question

To us the safety of loved ones comes first, yet when our own well-being is gambled with, the selfishness in human nature takes hold of our actions and leaves us in emotional distress, such is the case of Max Vandenburg in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief. Zusak’s work of fiction successfully epitomizes both the guilt and the cowardice felt by Vandenburg. A Jew in Nazi Germany, the scene opens up with Vandenburg and the rest of his family ineffectively eluding the Nazi’s grasp. Soon, the inevitable happens and he is forced to choose between staying with his beloved relatives and dying, or leaving