The City of Thieves: Reading Skills

    City of Thieves is a great book that you could make a lot of connections with, especially with World War II. A text to world connection that I could make with this book was how David Benioff, the author, incorporated all the general names, weapons, different types of people, and city names into his book. I thought it was interesting how he put it history into a novel like this. A text to text connection that could be made from this book was to another novel called Night. These books are similar because they both are about the lives of Jewish people that are on a journey risking their lives. City of Thieves is set during the time of World War II and the two main protagonists, Lev and Kolya, had to find a dozen eggs for their command general, otherwise they would be killed. Similarly, Elie Wissel, the main protagonist of Night, has to find help his father through illnesses  otherwise his father wouldn't be able to protect Elie and they would both be dead. Both of their paths were deadly and both groups came face to face with death multiple times. A text to self connection that I could make to City of Thieves, was that in the book, you have to stay with your friends or family at all times in order to stay alive. You all rely on each other like it's life or death. For myself, this instance can occur when we're on vacation somewhere and I don't know where to go, however it's not as extreme to be alone on vacation as it would have been in City of Thieves. A prediction that could be made from this book is that Lev and Kolya grew a stronger and stronger bond throughout the book as they got to know each other better and better. I can predict this because in the beginning of the book, they didn't like each other much and their thoughts were the exact opposite of one anothers, but by the end of the book they started realizing how they made it through everything and they recognized each other as heroes.