...A majority of The Book Thief is set in the basement or under houses. Liesel spends a lot of time in the Huberman’s basement with Max and writing her book as well as reading to her fellow neighbors in the Fielders basement. The setting of the basement highlights the mood and atmosphere of the book. The basements are also under the houses which could represent her subconscious as it is the place where she is more creative and artistic. This is also the place where she has more expression and where she can be herself with Max. Although not thoroughly explained or in great detail, Liesel’s brothers death plays a major part in the development of the plot in The Book Thief. His death marks the start of Liesel’s obsession with books and learning to...
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...War. In The Book Thief The main character Liesel Meminger is surrounded by war, in the beginning she is only partly affected by it. although as the book and movie progresses it affects her more and more until her her whole world; friends, enemies, family, are engulfed in war. Liesel Meminger is is nine when she is grudgingly given to her foster parents Rosa and Hans Hubermann. Rosa is a fifty some year old who washes and irons clothes for the wealthy men and women of Munich, Germany. Hans Hubermann is a kind spirited man who fought in the first world war, and was only saved because of an accordion playing Jew. This is one of the first points that death narrated in the book that was not in the movie. In the book Death regales upon a time...
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...Germany in the midst of world war 2. When we first meet Liesel (the protagonist) she is on a train with her younger brother to her new foster home . The first major event to occur was the death of her younger brother ,who died of hypothermia. At his grave she finds a book (A Gravedigger's Handbook”),and chooses to take it whilst not knowing how to read, landing her the name “the book thief” (which she is referred to as throughout by the narration by “death”). On arrival to her new foster home at 33 himmel street, she is greeted by her foster mother and father Rosa and Hans Hubermann,...
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