Update On: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

So now I've come to realize that Liesel, the awkward, skinny, quiet, German girl is the book thief.

As most people who have heard of holocaust and the terrible events that occurred in Nazi, Germany in the 1900's, it is a fact that many people were extremely poor and couldn't afford to eat, let alone support their children. That's why Leisel and her brother were being shipped to a foster home away from their very ill mother.

On the way there, Leisel's brother had gotten poised by the food he ate on the train and immediately died. It was a shock to me as a reader, and Leisel as well. The train was then stopped for them to bury her brother, while Leisel and her mother stood aside weeping in agony. "Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white. She realized her mother had come back for her only when she felt the boniness of a hand on her shoulder. She was being dragged away. A warm scream filled her throat." (Pg. 24)

Just then, Leisel spotted a book lodged in the snow with shiny silver lighting next to her brother's grave. It was like she was the only one who could see it. She silently snatched the book; the first one of her collection.