Mama begins taking Liesel along with her when she collects washing from the neighbors in Molching, and soon Liesel is making the deliveries herself. She also receives a brown uniform, and is enrolled in the Hitler Youth, where she learns to 'heil Hitler,' or salute Hitler, as well as marching, sewing, and rolling bandages. In February, Liesel turns ten, and is given a damaged doll by the Hubermanns. During the day, Liesel attends school, where she is forced to study with the younger children because she is behind in her education. Often she wakes up screaming, and Papa comforts her. Liesel complies.įrom the beginning of her time with the Hubermanns, Liesel is plagued by nightmares of her dead brother.
After a few weeks, Frau Hubermann instructs Liesel to call her and her husband Mama and Papa.
#THE BOOK THIEF SUMMARY HOW TO#
Because her mother is sick and her father has been taken away for being a Communist, Liesel understands that the Hubermanns represent a form of salvation for her, but at first she is very wary of them, especially Frau Hubermann, who calls Liesel saumench, meaning "pig girl." Liesel's stepfather, Hans, is a housepainter who wins her over by teaching her how to roll cigarettes for him and playing his accordion for her. Liesel meets her new foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. Himmel translates as heaven, though the town is neither hellish nor heavenly. Liesel's new foster parents live on Himmel Street, in Molching. Liesel and her mother continue on to Munich, then to a suburb called Molching. One of the gravediggers drops a book, and Liesel, who has been digging in the snow, picks it up. Liesel and her mother get off the train with Werner's body at the next station and bury him in the town. As the book thief dreams of Adolph Hitler, Werner dies suddenly. She and her younger brother, Werner, are traveling by train with their mother towards Munich, where they will live with a foster family. The book thief is nine-year-old Liesel Meminger. Death followed the book thief for a while, and when she dropped her book, he picked it up. The book thief was sitting on a pile of rubble, holding a book. The third time he saw the book thief, a German town had been bombed. Death arrived for the pilot's soul and watched as a boy took a teddy bear from a toolbox and gave it to the pilot. The next time Death saw the book thief was years later, when a pilot had crashed his plane. The book thief watched him take the boy with tears frozen to her face. The first time he saw her was on a train where he had come to collect the soul of a small boy. He lists the main elements of the story to come, and reveals that he has seen the main character, the book thief, three times. He describes his work and his preference for a chocolate brown sky when he collects people's souls. Death introduces himself as the narrator of the book.
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