The Book Thief #4

The Book Thief is one of those books that actually deserves an award. The narrator is a like fishing, and that in itself has the potential to inspire thousands of boring essays. When you start you you expect to catch them all, but catch nothing till your hopes are down. If you have ever caught a fish you would understand the metaphor. 

The book Thief # 3

In Nazi Germany a young girl named Liesel Meminger meets death himself, who is also our narrator, though not for Death’s usual reason. What with WWII, Death is pretty busy, and needs all the distraction he can get his hands on. Liesel Meminger, the girl who became a book thief at age nine when she stole a book from her brother’s gravesite, is just such a distraction. Liesel’s first stolen book begins a life-altering relationship with reading and words.

the Book Thief #2

Liesel’s comfort, her strength, is also part of the reason for her suffering. This makes for one of the most complex teen you’ll ever read about. The Book Thief has the most intense moments, and little surprises like a certain brilliant and original fairy tale add a certain profound cuteness that’s tough to achieve but amazing when it is. In short, this, just like the review on the cover says, is one of those books that could change someone’s life. So go read The Book Thief, even though it just might tear you apart before it’s over.

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The amount of detail packed into everything means there are very few one-dimensional minor characters, which adds a trillion more character to the book. It also means you get attached to quite a few of them. I could honestly go on about Hans and Rosa Hubermann, Max Vandenberg, and Rudy Steiner for days. Furthermore, our grim narrator has a very unique way of describing everything, which makes Liesel’s world seem like some kind of impressionist painting, but in a good way. Now, for the book thief herself: outside her title, Liesel is just a girl living her life in Nazi Germany. Life in Nazi Germany is necessarily difficult, but various occurrences make it worse for her.