SPOILER ALERTIf you have not started to read this book, and have stumbled across this blog, be warned, there are some spoilers in these passages.
Keeping a Jew in Liesel's basement is getting even more serious. Rosa and Hans are no longer letting Liesel feed Max. This has resulted in Liesel taking Rosa's job and attempting to Iron the clothes herself. Max is slowly planning and writing a book in the basement, which I find pretty interesting. The standover man: what an intriguing name for a book! It was sort of like a picture book, and it dictated Max's life. This was not interesting only because these were the first pictures ever in the book thief, but because Max expressed the characters as birds. Does that symbolize something? I think it has something to do with Liesel telling Hans that his hair looks like feathers, but I am not completely sure.
In the beginning of the book, you can already tell that Max is talking about himself. This book seemed to really express himself more than "the book thief" has so far. The first sentence, to me, is very captivating, making me wish that it was an actual book that I could read. "All my life I have been scared of men standing over me." This is shocking, especially to a fist fighter who has grown to love the taste of blood, yet interesting. "My father died before I could remember him". That was an interesting sentence, saying that you never remembered your father, but in a poetic way. His father, his enemies, all have stood over him, and it is amazing that he has realized that. Then, he talks about when he hides from the Germans, because they want to kill him: a Jew. I feel really bad for Max when he says he is always scared to wake up each morning, because he fears it might be the NAZIs. That part really connects me with Max. When he finds Hans and Rosa, and stays there, Liesel crawls into the pages. In the pages were he talks about Liesel, I feel like he misses seeing Liesel Everyday. In the next page, Max states that Liesel thinks that he is a bird. I don't really know how to react to that, that Max has treated Liesel like a close friend, and he thinks that Liesel is calling him a winged creature. But, he was not offended by that, and I was glad. I find it warming how he summarized when they shared their dreams with each other, but most of all when he writes this sentence. "On her birthday, it was she who gave gift to me"
I have to say, this has been one of the most heartwarming moments of the whole book, when Max tells the reader about his friendship with Liesel. After reading this section, I read it over two or three times more because I love how well written this book is, and the happy ending always gets me. I guess that was how Liesel was as well, because she apparently did the same thing. This has been a heart warming part of this section, and, has been one of my favorite so far. I hope that this was also a great section for you as well. Or if you happened to stumble across this blog and read this page, that you will be inspired to read along with me.
-Keaten
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