The Question and Answer section for The Book Thief is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The people who witnessed the whipping were afraid..... their intervention would likely have made no difference, in fact, it might have made things worse for Liesel. The soldiers might have made an example of her and given her worse than a...
In Part VII, Ilsa leaves The Complete Duden Dictionary and Thesaurus on the windowsill as a gift for Liesel.
The image of Jewish prisoners en route to a concentration camp being "paraded" through Molching is a dark simulacrum of the Hitler Youth carnival, another Nazi civic event. The swift athletics of Rudy and the other runners contrasts with the...
