The Book Thief - Katherine Garcia

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is narrated by Death and is retelling the story about the Liesel Meminger or known as the Book Thief. Death is retelling the story of Liesel because she the "survivor" or a "leftover" from where everyone she knew who lived at Himmel Street died when the enemy bombed at night. When everyone was asleep and she was at the basement rereading the book of her life she wrote a few days ago. So the book is writen through the eyes of Death and its feelings towards Liesel or the people she once knew. Liesel didn't tell Death about her story but Death found her book where she wrote about her life and saw her three times. With those three times, each and every moment a book was involved somewhere. "It's the story of one of those perpetual survivors-an expert at being left behind." (pg. 5) so fascinated by her Death is telling us her story.
Death did not only tell her story but the people she loved Hans Huberman, MaxVandenburg and Rudy Steiner, each and everyone special to Liesel. Hans Hubermann was her foster father who took her in when she was separated by her mother. Max was a Jew who went to live at her basement during World War II and had to keep him a secret. Then Rudy and his careless actions that brought him usually into trouble.
When Liesel and her brother were to be taken in with Hans and his wife, Rosa Hubermann, but at the end Liesel's brother died on the way there. "I entered the train....No one noticed.... Expect the girl." (pg. 20) this what brought Liesel to Death's attention, because she was different from everyone else on the train when Death took her brother's soul and carried him with it. Also this was the first action that led her to steal a book, at her brother's funeral, and to learn how to read it.
Since books were what she wanted to read when it was Hitler's birthday and there was the book burings that was the second place she stole a book. When she thought no one was looking there was a shadwoy figure who saw it all from Liesel looking at the ashes of books and paper to her running away with The Shoulder Shrug. The figure was Ilsa Hermann the mayor's wife and she ws who led the book thief to steal books from her own library.
Since Ilsa was one of Rosa's laundry constumers she took Liesel into her library. But after she said that the services were no longer need and she was their last the led Liesel to steal from her.
In all Liesel stole about three books from the library but she never looked back from it.
The second time Death saw Liesel was when there was bombing near her street. An American pilot crash landed near by and was on the brink of dying and that was when Liesel and Death both came in. The last time Death saw Liesel was when everyone she knew was dead and Death was there to carry the souls and she was there to see the remains of her life she lived here.
In the end Liesel lived a life that changed her during the four to five years she lived at Himmel Street (himmel meaning heaven), the books, the Jew, Rudy, her foster father and almost everyone and everything she known.