The Book Thief

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The Book Thief: Character Analysis I chose the main character Leisel Meminger in "The Book Thief" because she made so many changes throughout the story and I found her very interesting. This story was a biography that she wrote about herself. Her biography was picked up by Death who had it published after her death. In the story, Leisel is the main character who we hear about from the time she rode on the train with her mom and brother to adulthood. Leisel had many wonderful traits but also some bad traits too. She was pale and sad looking, with dark brown eyes. Death described her as "German blond, but she had dangerous eyes." She was underweight because she only ate pea soup because that was all they had to eat. Death said, "Everything about her was undernourished. Wirelike shins. Coat hanger arms. She did not produce it easily but when it came, she had a starving smile" (31). She also had frizzy hair that was somewhat curly sometimes. I know this because Death describes her in this quote, "Perhaps 10 meters to my left was a pale, empty stomached, frizzy haired girl" (8). One of her good traits was that Leisel was very determined to learn to read. A quote that showed this was going to happen in the book was when Death said, "Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrive, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain" (80). She worked very hard to be able to read and even broke laws by stealing books from people. Leisel had many relationships, but most important one was with Rudy. She liked Rudy a lot and he liked her. Rudy asked her, "If I beat you, I get to kiss you." (53). This is what Rudy said to Leisel in the part when they talked about the Jesse Owens incident. This shows that Leisel has feelings for Rudy, but doesn't really want to show them yet. She really is going to

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