The poetry Allusion on page 425 on the Readers Handbook and The Book Thief By Markus Zusak they both talk about traveling. There both similar because they both travel and go somewhere.

in the poetry "Allusion" it says "Much have traveled in the realms of gold". On The book Thief it says "This train , the train limped through the snowed in country" . Both stories compare that there traveling to a destination. Allusion is based on a Spanish traveler looking for gold. An "Allusion' is something with witch the reader is likely to be familiar such as a person , place or even from literature or some aspects of culture.

The Book Thief is based on Hitler . He hates Jews So Much. He wants to kill all of them he hates them. He thinks they should no be alive that there all bad people. They should not exist. A lot of Jews try to escape the camps where there staying at.

Both stories want to do something. The Book Thief is that they wanna run away. They dont wanna die. Allusion is a Spanish Traveler that wants to find gold. They both travel to places.  There both similar to each other because they talk about the same thing