Death admires maxs brave spirit, even while acknowledging the futility of fighting death. The book is introduced by the characternarrator death, which underlines that mortality is very present in the lives of each character. But dont go cowering under the covers on his account. Liesel will be there to weep over his body, which, death thinks, rudy would have liked. Narration in markus zusaks the book thief the aquila digital. The theme of death in the book thief from litcharts the. She is 9 years old at the beginning of the story, when after the death of her.
When viktor chemmel begins berating liesel, rudy tells him to leave her alone, and when viktor tosses liesel s book in the river, rudy doesnt hesitate to dive in after it, not because it holds any value to him but because he knows its important to liesel. The book thief sophie nelisse is liesel memminger featurette hd duration. Liesel steals her first book, titled the grave diggers handbook, when it falls out of the gravediggers. Stealing to settle a score with life the new york times. Even rudy knows how important liesels books are to her. Primary characters liesel meminger is the book thief. Death followed the book thief for a while, and when she dropped her book, he picked it up. For one thing, death aint the bad guy that would be hitler. What is the impact of death foreshadowing rudys death. Death foreshadows rudy s death in the opening and closing passages of part five. But liesel isnt the only character he tries to protect.
The grocer becomes enraged and threatens to call the police until rudy enlists one of his schoolteachers who is also in line to exaggerate how big and poor rudys family is. The book thief what is the impact of death foreshadowing rudy s death. Rudy is fourteen, too, but seems much more sure of his feelings in that area. For another, death is in some ways pretty humanespecially considering how inhumane a lot of the homo sapiens running around in the book thief are. Death lists the three stupid acts and then goes on to describe them. Why does death tell us about rudys impending death. The first involves rudy stealing a potato from a grocers, but he steals the largest potato so several people in line have been watching it, and they see him do it.