Summer Reading Entry 2

The characters in The Book Thief are extremely diverse an intricate. Each of the main characters has a personality that they don't waver from. Rosa Hubbermann is seen as ignorant and holding too much self pride to see the world around her.She has not an will not show any sort of change in heart during the course of the book. Hans Hubbermann is the complete opposite of Rosa and will go out of his way to make someone's day, even if it means ruining his own. Liesel is very torn up inside because of the quick loss of her father, brother and being taken away from her mother, but it appears as though she might change later on in the book. She desperately clings to a small black book that she found lying in the snow the night her brother was buried. It is the only memories she has of her brother and the last time she saw her mother. Some themes that are beginning to appear are the thoughts of lose and suffering. Liesel is consistently tortured by nightmares of her mother and brother. She also has to cope with their lose and her new foster parents ( mostly Rosa, but Hans might be an unlikely suspect later on). Rosa seems to be one of the main sources of suffering for Liesel because she uses her most of the time to take care of herself, instead of thinking what is best for Liesel. The book is structured a little abnormally. The narrator is death, and what he sees though his eye looking into Liesel's world. There are small interventions when needed for clarifications and some of the dialogs is translated from German to English, with the German coming first and the English repeated right afterwards.

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