![]() ![]() I just couldn’t but than after some days, probably weeks, I picked it up again and I was in tears. When I read it for the first time, I couldn’t read it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.” But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. “I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. How suddenly, those small joys from life are taken away and the burden of wars falls on everyone. And we start understanding how all this affects their life. The streets are full of violence, the camps are increasing, there are constant wars, the sky is full of smoke. Everything was going the same, until a Jew finds his way to their basement and Liesel finds herself in company of a hiding Jew. Her love for books, despite everything going around is what keeps on going. When all the books around were burned on Hitler’s order, all Liesel could think about was the loss of books and forgetting everything, she picks up a book and takes it with her. Liesel or as death calls her, The Book Thief. And during his journey to pick souls, a young girl grabs his attention. We see how war takes a toll on death and how he moves from one place to another taking souls- sometimes small, sometimes old. Unlike what we really think of death as a grim reaper, we have death with different set of emotions as well. The Book Thief is different from other books in one special regards, we have death as the narrator. “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” When Liesel’s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up, and closed down. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever there are books to be found.īut these are dangerous times. ![]() So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. It is The Gravedigger’s Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.īy her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. ![]()
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