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