Brief Summary Of The Book Thief By Hans Hubermann

In the last quarter of the book, Nazi soldiers arrive at Rudy’s house to talk to his parents about taking Rudy to a special Nazi training school because of his athletic and intellectual abilities. They refuse, and in turn, Rudy’s father must join the army in his place. Hans Hubermann is also drafted to the German army because of his actions weeks before in which he gave a Jewish prisoner a piece of bread, although this reasoning is not indicated in the letter. His wife and foster child are devastated and Rosa even spends her nights clutching his accordion to her chest whilst Liesel watches from the doorway. As Hans is serving in the Air Raid Special Unit in Essen, parades of Jews continue through Molching. Liesel watches each face every time
She begins ripping the book apart out of anger and she leaves the mayor’s wife a note that says that she will not be visiting anymore and thanking her for everything. A few days later, the mayor’s wife knocks on the door of the Hubermann household and gives Liesel a blank book for Liesel to write her stories in. She begins to spend almost every night in the basement writing a story entitled, “The Book Thief,” which is all about her life since she has arrived in Molching. On the night where she had finished her story and had begun revising it is when the bombs arrived and killed everyone one the street except for herself because the basement had been low enough for her to survive and the sirens had come too late to warn the residents. After Liesel is rescued, she finds Rudy’s dead body and kisses him goodbye before she discovers her foster parents’ lifeless bodies on the ground. She tells her mama that she looked so beautiful holding the accordion when Hans was away and tells her papa that no one can play it the way he can. As she is escorted away from the bodies, she leaves her book behind and it is thrown in the garbage by one of the workers. Death states that he was glad he was there so that he could grab the