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The Book Thief, By Markus Zusak
The book thief is written by Markus Zusak. This book is told by death about a little girl 'the book thief'. The girl is called Liesel, she has to go through alot. She was sent to her foster parents with her little brother. The rough time begins already by losing her brother. It was al because their mother didn't want them anymore. At the funeral of her little brother, a man dropped his book what she tooks. She took it home with her and hide it under her bed. A few days later living with her foster parents she met a boy called Rudy. They became friends and Rudy wanted through the hole book to kiss Liesel, but unfortunately it never happend alive. Suddenly a son of a friend of Hans(foster parent of Liesel) came by, he asked if he could stay …show more content…
Death gave her the nickname 'the book thief'. She stole the book from an Gravedigger, he dropped his 'gravediggers handbook' and she took it home. Because of everything she is been through, she has alot of nightmares and peed almost every night in her bed. She has a good relationship with her foster parent Hans. Hans understood the problem of Liesel in the nights. It was no problem for him to clean up her bed, but he found the 'gravediggers handbook' and start reading it together. Hans was reading aloud in the middle of the night to comfort her and to learn her how to read it for herself. He does this for a long time and she gets better everytime. Hans took Liesel also the the burial for her reading skills. Every word Liesel didn't knew or didn't understood it. Hans wrote it down on a wall, so Liesel can work on her reading …show more content…
The book were Liesel were writing in to tell her own story was lost at the end of the bombing attacks, death silently took it with him everywhere he goes. That was so he could think about 'the book thief' often. I thought that was a nice gesture, because death gave it in return as he come to get her soul, and got back to the place were she stayed. It was a nice ending, the writer took you really in this book. But how is this important in real life, because everyone has something to do with talents. Everyone has one even they don't know it yet. If everyone does something with his talent we have a beautiful world, but everyone comes in contact once with death. That is not something you can turn you back from. Death comes and get everyone's souls on earth, That is why it is important for us in real

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