

The “book thief” in the title refers to Liesel because she is fascinated by the power of words to change worlds. She was adopted by the Hubermanns when her brother dies, her biological father left them because he was a Communist, and her mother was forced to send her to a foster home to avoid Nazi persecution. Much later she has got a strong personal moral code and is not afraid to enforce it even at the danger to herself. With brown eyes and blonde hair, Liesel is an adopted girl on the edge of adolescence who became emboldened by the books she was reading. Liesel is the protagonist of The Book Thief, who changes to a lovely person from the initial angry, distrusting character.

Sometimes Death is “compelled” to take action in sympathy with the human story. Death insists that it definitely can be cheerful and even affable to the reader, but also relates that it most certainly cannot be nice. Death is the collector of souls, and when it comes it is arrayed in any or all the world’s colors. This is because he had to collect so many souls as the war increased. Death expresses tiredness and remorse as the novel progresses. The narrator of The Book Thief, Death is at first sarcastic, with a darkly wry sense of humor. Rudy, Max, and others, with each playing intrinsic parts to The Book Thief.

There are many characters in the book, notably, Death, Liesel, Han and Rosa Hubermann, Mr.
