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The Book Thief portrays the image of how people used to be living in Germany under the power of Nazis. All characters in the book including death, were endured by their fatality and how each character had to fear their own death, as well as others' death. This book is filled with cruelty and so much violence. The positivity in this book comes where the reader sees Liesel being a hero and making her life good through all the struggles she faced. Despite losing her brother, and being separated from her family, she still managed to go and find a new life with her foster parents. She even managed to find some good friends in Max and Rudy. 

The message from the Book Thief, is that even when there are harsh obstacles coming your way, you need to be calm and try to deal with things in the right manner. Losing hope would be the biggest mistake that you can make in your life, when you are already praying for your soul to live. As for Liesel, she wanted to live, she didn't want to die. So, Liesel fought and kept her hopes and courage up by reading books. Liesel and Hans, her foster father, also both found hope in the sound of Hans' accordion playing. Liesel figured that books were the only way she could help herself not be overwhelmed by the devastating situation she was in. Everyone needs to find a thing that they feel is comfortable and helps them relax and forget about their problems for a bit. This is because sometimes, reality can be really unsatisfying, but we need to know how to cope with it, and most importantly, how to overcome it. This is the message that should be taken from this novel, and another thing is that in this book it shows how much of a struggling life people live. Many have lives so precious, but don't realize them until they see people in worse situations. So another thing to also understand from this book is to embrace the life we are given and live it happily. 

A similar situation may be found in the play 'Othello' by William Shakespeare. We see the main character , Othello ,presented in both positive and negative terms. The positive depiction of Othello is both verbal and behavioural. We hear about his integrity and great bravery and heroism through the speeches of others and perceive it through Desdemona's admiration. We see him behave towards her and others in a gentle, caring and courteous fashion. 

However we also see the split opinions of society towards the other relationships in the play. Some people are willing to accept change and integration such as Brabantio who is old fashioned and racist, Desdemona who could be said to be very Christian and charitable in her outlook, looking beyond class and colour to the nobility of the soul underneath ,and Cassio who sees nothing but honour in accepting authority from a man of integrity whatever his colour. Others could be seen to be narrow minded and racially prejudiced, for example Iago. But he is a complex character and there may be other forces at work besides racial prejudice. There may be envy, jealousy, revenge, pride, rejection and control issues at work.