The Gravedigger's Book Analysis

Liesel has an obsession with stealing books, and there is also an ironic part to why she has this obsession. This is ironic because when Liesel sole her first book, The Gravedigger's handbook, she did not know how to read at the time. On page 66 of this novel it states that “As for the girl, there was a sudden desire to read it that she didn't event attempt to understand. Leisel wanted to try to read The Gravedigger's handbook because she wanted to know if her brother was buried right the day he died. After accomplishing to read her first book, Liesel now wants to read more book because she enjoyed it. “She had stolen a book. … For Leisel, the paranoia itself became the punishment, as did the dred of delivering somg washing to the mayor's