Book Theft: Unseen Consequences in Nazi Era

In the following lines from Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief, Liesel has been in attendance of a bonfire in which the Hitler Youth was required to attend. The bonfire was meant for burning books, posters and other propaganda that the Jews had owned. During the clean-up of the bonfire, Liesel seized her moment to steal her second book.
“Certainly, something of great magnitude was coming toward 33 Himmel Street, to which Liesel was currently oblivious. To distort an overused human expression, the girl had more immediate fish to fry:
She had stolen a book.
Someone had seen her.
The book thief reacted. Appropriately.
Every minute, every hour, there was worry, or more to the point, paranoia. Criminal activity will do that to a person, especially

a child.”
I am drawn to this segment of the novel because I can clearly imagine the apprehension that Liesel must have felt. The desperate need to possess another book could not be contained and she acted. During that time period, stealing alone would have been bad enough; stealing a book that contained Jewish content would have severe penalties, not only for her, but also her foster parents. Figuratively waiting for the other shoe to drop is a heavy weight for a child to bear.
The author has chosen to magnify three of the sentences in this segment. By first using the colon to formulate an announcement to come; the sentence that follows the colon has been designated its own line to show its significance. The “s” has been capitalized and the sentence is short and to the point. The second and third sentences repeat the same pattern. The effect of those sentences is dramatic. The word appropriately has been capitalized and stands lone from the previous sentence marking it as valuable content to the next line. While the commas in this sentence build the anticipation of the reader with its subtle pauses and draws the reader into the feeling of watching over ones should at every moment.