In The Book Thief, there are two main themes which I believe best demonstrates this book. They are the power of words and death .These themes perfectly demonstrate Liesel because she is a new citizen in Germany with an incomplete understanding of her surrounding due to the fact that she just recently lost her mother and father. Markus Zusak easily used death against Liesel. Markus brought together every part of Liesel’s life into one idea that is the theme of death. Death became imminent for Liesel from the time her foster parents and her brother died to the time Ilsa Herman, Frau Holtzapfel and just about everyone on Himmel Street died. These people were either killed themselves or had experienced a tragic loss in their family. In the end
