The city also has many buildings that are no longer populated, the perfect places for the thieves to hide. Many things are lost there by the numerous tourists who visit the area every year, and it is an ideal setting for the protagonists, a group of young runaways. Venice is a beautiful place, and it’s unlike many other locations. Funke’s setting choices were extremely appropriate for the subject of the story. But a closer look into his history exposes every tale he had fabricated for his admiring followers - and how well the Thief Lord can spin lies. Scipio, for example, is the leader of the group of children, and he casts himself as a fearless, cunning person.
Cornelia Funke carefully chisels each personality, giving each a voice that speaks through the paper. No real person exists without flaws, nor is anyone’s personality so focused on a single characteristic that they are unable to live any other way. Many potentially wonderful books have been destroyed by the unfortunate lack of verisimilitude - their characters are kind, smart, beautiful, talented, and possess every other positive trait imaginable. The Thief Lord is impossible to stop reading until you've reached the end (and possibly reread it once or twice or fourteen times).Ī defining characteristic of a truly talented writer is the touch that gives life to the characters. Never is there a dull moment when one might be tempted to put down the book and go check their text messages. The Thief Lord, Scipio, for example, wears a mask shaped like the beak of a crow, concealing his true identity.
Funke’s use of symbolism adds a fresh view of the story for those that look deeper into it. Events that appear in the beginning of the book resurface at the end with a renewed importance. The Thief Lord’s enchanting plot was extremely well thought-out.
But among the canals and tourists, they find much more than a safe haven - they meet and join young thieves, and are sent on a mission that changes their lives. Cornelia Funke’s The Thief Lord is an intriguing novel that follows two runaway brothers, protective Prosper and curious, impressionable young Boniface, who arrive in Venice with the intention of escaping their abusive aunt and uncle. Abandoned theaters and starry curtains host pigeons and runaways… wooden wings and carousels spin time merrily away… and the poorest hide lies with the finest silk…. Hushed whispers float across the still canals of Venice.
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