Book Report: The Book Thief

The Book Thief is a book by Markus Zusak. It's from Death's (Yup, Death.) perspective, where the reader followes Death's following of a girl named Liesel while she goes thru a large transformation in Holocaust Germany. It's saddening, dense, horrifying, but good. I will begin writing about it in the next section. (!Spoilers :Warning) Baddam Ching!:

The beginning is about Death, and the Book Thief's first book. After being introduced to Death, and his obsession with colors, we get shown the first time he sees Liesel. Her brother dies on the train bringing both the children to their foster parents. Death gets interested in the girl and watches her for a while. She, during the grave digging, sees a book fall out of the grave diggers pocket. She goes and grabs it.

The next part is about her beginning her next life with her new parents. Liesel refuses to get out of the car, then refuses to come inside. Eventually, she's coaxed inside, and she meets her two new parents, Hans and Rosa. She slowly gets used to life. She makes friends with Rudy, who seems obsessed with kissing her from the start. She also gets stuck with the goalie position in the kid's soccer group, but does a really good job with that anyway.

The following part is about her going back to school, and the second book stealing. She gets sent to the 'midget' class, but advances out quickly. Hans helps her learn how to read, and she gets better. Kids make fun of her, and she beats them up. She also attends a pro-Nazi burning, and steals a book that didn't fully burn. She feels like she was being watched, and realizes that she was. She figures out it was the mayor's wife, but she doesn't seem to know about it. However, she tells her about it later and shows her the largest library she ever saw.

The next part is about hiding a Jew in the house. Hans helps a son of a old friend be protected, and makes sure that Liesel never tells anyone about it. She talks with him, learns about him, and even brings snow inside for him. He gets deathly sick, however, and she brings trinkets from the outside world for him. However, once Hans helps a old man in a Concentration Parade, he gets worried about the safety of him and gives him a safe spot to hide in. But he decides he's been enough strain on them and leaves with a note.

The final part is about the bombs. She begins writing a book about her life, and writes it in the basement. She also gets reads more and more books, and steals one more as well. She and Rudy help each other out at stealing food. However, the bombs become a threat and they usually evacuate to a better basement. Unfortunately, during one night while almost everyone is sleeping, she is writing her book downstairs. A bomb hits, and everyone in the entire street is slain. She cries, and finally kisses Rudy's dead body.





The FINAL part is about after the bombs. She loses the book and Death picks it up. She moves in with the mayor and her wife, and after the war sees the Jew again. They meet up together. Time passes, and we go to when she dies married in Australia, and Death gives her back her book as she comes with him. It's a real sad story, and everyone dies at the end. Expect tears.


*Finishes sobbing and writes a little thing about being done here.*

Adventure Van, out.