Book Thief: Brief Summary

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The Book Thief Have you ever thought of dying? Do you think you can survive? In January 13,1938 Liesel was traveling in a train then her brother died out of nowhere. Then she went to Germany to live with a new mom and dad, because her mom was running away from the government. The new mom is mean but the new dad is very nice he even thought Liesel how to read. Max come to hide in their house. Mas has not been outside for 2 years. Max got sick because Liesel brought snow in the basement. While Max was sick the Nazi soldier come to check the basement. The family was worried that Max was going to die. Yey! Max is going to live. The Germans and the U.S were having a war during this time so, the dad had to go to the war. Rudy is training to be a soldier. Liesle tried to keep everyone that is hiding a story to keep the calm. Letter on the war ended and Jews started going to concentration camps and the dad come back a little injured. While everyone in the town was sleeping a bomb hit their town and everyone died except for Liesle died. Letter on in life Liesel went to the U.S and saw Max and she died at the age of 90. …show more content…

Love because Liesel and her foster parents show love to each other, Max, and people around them. War because the father went on a war and this was during the Holocaust time, the broken glass and world war ll. Suffering because the family took the risk of keeping Max who is a Jew and they are Germans. In “The Book Thief” death is talking, death knows what is going to happn. In the movie when he called the name of the people in the town they were dead. Death said “ the only trath I truly know is that I’m haunted by humans.” death is knows what he is doing it is his

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