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Liesel Meminger on World War II set in Nazi Germany – is forced, after the death of her brother, on abandonment of her mother, to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann. The plot is being told by Death which gives the reader a third person view into Liesel’s life. Besides being an orphan being a Jew, loss of her brother and witnessing death haunting her, Liesel finds comfort in stealing books for her and her foster brother Werner ‘s mutual purpose was for her to steal a books titled The Grave Digger’s Handbook as a gift for him. In the course of the novel she is learning with the help of Hans, to read and she finds consolation with books as the world is in chaos due to the war.
During the movie Liesel’s family takes in a Jewish man named Max Vandenburg into their basement and becomes very close to him. Liesel develops a good relationship with a man called Max Vander revelling in the books she steals, eater reading them to him during his time in the concentration camp. They are loyal, sacrifice and strong for each other despite the horrors of war that exists.
Liesel also has a loyalty with Rudy Steiner, a hardheaded boy who stays with Liesel till the end of the war. Their relationship gives an ordinary feel to the images, but Rudy’s death signifies the disorderliness of the period.
In the process of the war Liesel loses everything and is surrounded by grief throughout the whole book. Death which does reflect an attempt to emphasize the topicality of such terms as a hope and persistence can be rather interpreted as a persuasion that words which have been stated do have an ability to immortalize.
