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The Grave Digger's Handbook Essay

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This grand story takes set in Germany World War II, with death himself being the narrator. As the story goes he talks about collecting souls and how he envy’s the living, for we can die and he cannot. But one night he takes special interest in one human, which would be Liesel Meminger. This all started the night Liesel and her brother Werner were to be shipped off to a family in Germany (Liesel was 9 years old at the time and her brother 6). They were being sent away because their parents were suspected to be communists. That sort of thing wasn’t allowed at least not during World War II. But on their journey Liesel’s brother dies. That is the first time death takes notice of Liesel. At the funeral of Werner’s death Liesel steals her first book, The Grave Digger’s Handbook, it was accidently dropped by a cemetery worker. That was when death labeled her “the book thief”. During the course of the story she keeps her nickname, for she steals several other stories, which her papa shows her how to read with them. …show more content…

Throughout the story they all grow to love each other. Especially Hans and Liesel, for every night Liesel would wake up terrified from a nightmare about her brother, and each of those night Hans would comfort her by showing her to read. Liesel and Hans grow an unbreakable bond, for he taught her to read and write, and later in the story it would save her life. As for Rosa and Liesel, well let’s just say their bond was special. Although Rosa Huberman is harsh and foul mouthed she loved Liesel very much and there was no doubt about it. While living in Molching Liesel finds herself a best friend who falls in love with her, his name is Rudy Steiner. In many of Liesel’s adventures, Rudy is almost always involved. But Rudy was not her only best friend, Max Vandenburg was one to. He was the Jew Liesel and her family hid in their basement, Liesel grew very fond of

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