Growing up a Saumensch
Death summarizes Liesel's career of book thievery and mentions that she ended up owning fourteen books. Liesel has dark brown eyes and blond hair. She constantly hears the word "Kommunist," but she is too shy to ask anyone what it means. The Hubermanns lived on Himmel Street with a shallow basement; this was a problem when air strikes started because they always needed to find a better place to hide down the street. Liesel's foster mother, Rosa Hubermann, was constantly angry and cursing at everything. She did the laundry and ironing for 5 wealthy homes in the town. Hans Hubermann, Liesel's foster father, was more gentle. He was a painter who played the piano and the accordion. After a few months of living with the Hubermanns, Liesel was expected to start calling them Mama and Papa.
The Woman with the Iron Fist
Liesel would always have nightmares about her deceased brother, but Hans would comfort her every night. Hans played the accordion for her, against Rosa's hatred for the playing. Some nights, Liesel would take The Grave Digger's Handbook from under her bed and look at it, not understanding any of the words. She only did this because it gave her a connection to her mother and her brother. At school, Liesel was forced to learn with the younger children because she knew nothing about how to read or write. Hans left Liesel and Rosa after breakfast to go to work. Every day, Rosa would do the ironing for the wealthy families and complain about their laziness. Rosa would take Liesel on her delivery runs to the houses, where she continued to complain about the people she worked for. When they returned, Frau Holtzapfel would spit on the doorstep of the Hubermann house. Rosa and Frau Holtzapfel were enemies for an unknown reason. Every time this happened, Liesel would go out and clean the spit from the door step.
The Kiss
Rudy Steiner was one of the characters from Liesel's street who would later become her best friend. Liesel played soccer outside with the other children on the street and she, being the newest member of the soccer group, was forced to be goalie. One day, Liesel walked with Rudy's family, and Rudy showed Liesel the sights. They made a stop at a shop that belonged to Frau Diller, who was a very intimidating woman. Their last stop before school was Rudy's father's tailor shop, where they stopped in and Rudy said hello. At school, Rudy hung out with Liesel during the breaks, even though his male classmates made fun of him. One day, Liesel and Rudy decided to have a race. The conditions were that if Rudy won, he could kiss Liesel, but if Liesel won, Rudy would be goalie for soccer. They ended up falling in the mud, and called the race a tie. Liesel refused to kiss Rudy, and vowed that she never would.
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The Book Thief pages 1-30
Prologue
The story is introduced from the perspective of Death. He explains that death is inevitable for everyone, and wonders what colors everything will be when you die. Death sees the world in colors and describes everything he sees by what color it is. Death uses the colors as a distraction from survivors -- one in particular: the book thief, who he saw three times.
The first death that Death describes is one that is in blinding white. A boy had died on a train, and his mother and sister were standing with him as the guards argued over what to do. Eventually, Death takes the boy's soul and sees the book thief for the first time.
Death's next encounter with the book thief is at a plane crash that is black. He immediately takes a little boy, to whom the book thief has given a teddy bear.
Death's final encounter with the book thief was red. Children were playing as bombs came down. He finds the book thief clutching a book until she finally drops it. The book is collected and put into a garbage truck. Death takes the book and often thinks about the book thief as he looks over it.
Part 1
Death begins describing the train ride on which the little boy dies after a fit of coughing. The 9-year-old book thief, Liesel Meminger, wakes up to find her brother dead, her mother still asleep. The mother wakes up, wailing, and takes the boy off of the train where the two guards argue about what to do. Liesel notices a book on the ground where two gravediggers had just been digging. She picks it up and gets on the train with her mother. The train was taking them to a foster home, where Liesel would live with the Hubermanns, her new foster parents. Afterward, a car delivers Liesel to a foster home. She sees her foster parents, but she refuses to get out of the car. After 15 minutes, Hans Hubermann, Liesel's foster father, finally gets her out of the car and brings her inside. The Grave Digger's Handbook, the book Liesel stole, lies at the bottom of her suitcase and is the first of many books that she will steal.
The story is introduced from the perspective of Death. He explains that death is inevitable for everyone, and wonders what colors everything will be when you die. Death sees the world in colors and describes everything he sees by what color it is. Death uses the colors as a distraction from survivors -- one in particular: the book thief, who he saw three times.
The first death that Death describes is one that is in blinding white. A boy had died on a train, and his mother and sister were standing with him as the guards argued over what to do. Eventually, Death takes the boy's soul and sees the book thief for the first time.
Death's next encounter with the book thief is at a plane crash that is black. He immediately takes a little boy, to whom the book thief has given a teddy bear.
Death's final encounter with the book thief was red. Children were playing as bombs came down. He finds the book thief clutching a book until she finally drops it. The book is collected and put into a garbage truck. Death takes the book and often thinks about the book thief as he looks over it.
Part 1
Death begins describing the train ride on which the little boy dies after a fit of coughing. The 9-year-old book thief, Liesel Meminger, wakes up to find her brother dead, her mother still asleep. The mother wakes up, wailing, and takes the boy off of the train where the two guards argue about what to do. Liesel notices a book on the ground where two gravediggers had just been digging. She picks it up and gets on the train with her mother. The train was taking them to a foster home, where Liesel would live with the Hubermanns, her new foster parents. Afterward, a car delivers Liesel to a foster home. She sees her foster parents, but she refuses to get out of the car. After 15 minutes, Hans Hubermann, Liesel's foster father, finally gets her out of the car and brings her inside. The Grave Digger's Handbook, the book Liesel stole, lies at the bottom of her suitcase and is the first of many books that she will steal.
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