Log #6

Book: The Book Thief

Author: Markus Zusak

        This book is written by a quite special tone of the death. It is book just like the death told a story what he had seen about Liesel’s experience during the war. In the first chapter, Liesel took a chain, moving to Munich, with her little brother and mother. Her mother intended to send Liesel and her brother to the foster family. When the train kept moving, her brother had no breath anymore. Heartbreaking, Liesel and mother were forced to bury him at the next stop, and then kept going. During the simple funeral of her brother, Liesel stole a book, which is left by a gravedigger. This is the first time the book thief, Liesel, stole the book—The Gravediggers’ Handbook. After arranging her brother, they came to Munich, going to her foster family.

        In her new foster family, the mother is a woman who have a kind heart but with all dirty words in her mouth. In the beginning of her staying, Liesel often had nightmares. The father, Hans, discovered Liesel’s condition at night; he started to read her book—The Gravediggers’ Handbook—for her after seeing it is always held in her hand. To me, what Liesel had done was the action of missing her brother.

        I was quite touched at the front pages, the pages which Liesel and her mother cried for her brother’s death. In the book, the author purposed a question that why people always shake the death people. Why? I asked myself, assumed I encounter the departure with my parents or siblings, forever, and what I would act like. Would I act like Liesel, shaking them too? Out of disappointment, we all really hope that people who we beloved can still company with ourselves, and then hard to concept the death of their beloved. I was sorry about what Liesel had experienced at a such little age, and think of the definition of “the death” in my mind at the same time!