The Book Thief- Melancholia, Love, and The Times

1. The Book Thief- Melancholia, Love, and The Times “The Book Thief” is set in Germany during 1939-1943 and chronicles the narrative of Liesel, as told by Death, who has in his hands the book Liesel wrote during and about the incidents of those years. As a result, they are both book thieves in certain ways. Liesel steals haphazardly at first, then deliberately, yet she is never portrayed as greedy. Death takes Liesel’s notebook once she abandons it, lost in her despair, in the midst of the devastation that was once her street, which she once called home, and carries it along. Plot Liesel is practically an orphan. Her father was never known to her, her mother vanished after giving her to the new foster home, and her brother was killed on the train to Mulching, the dwelling of her new foster parents. Death first meets nine-year-old Liesel after her brother dies, and he sticks around just enough to see her take her first book, which was left lying in the snow beside her brother’s grave. Her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Herbermann are underprivileged Germans who were granted a tiny stipend to care for her. Hans, a tall, calm man with silver eyes, is a house

2. painter. He likes playing the accordion. He is the one who taught Liesel how to read and write, once he discovered the book she had stolen from beside her brother’s grave. Rosa, Liesel’s foster mother, is harsh and curses a lot. She is also depicted to have a large heart though. She works as the laundrywoman for the town’s wealthy residents. It is from the house of one such rich woman that Liesel starts stealing books (the woman does not seem to mind even though she clearly notices this). Liesel also becomes close friends with her next-door neighbor Rudy. He is about Liesel’s age and has lemon-colored hair.

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