Brief Summary Of Liesel's Life Below The Railway Line

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In the beginning of the book their the narrator Death first describing to you the way he will tell the story and then telling the you about the simple fact you will eventually die. Death also describes to you under which circumstances you shall meet him. Beside The Railway Line begins with Death describing the first color he saw which was the color white because it was snowing outside. Death then describes to you the scene, there was a corpse on the ground along with a mother and her daughter along with the two guards who had decided that they should take the girl along with her mother away from the railroad track. Soon after Death notices that there is a soul in his arms waiting to be taken away. Death then describes the little girl with tears frozen to her face and tells you that …show more content…
Arrival On Himmel Street begins with the book thief heading to Munich along with the little boy that died next to the railway, her brother. Soon after her brother dies on the train and you learn of the book thief’s name Liesel Meminger. Then her family exits at the next stop to bury Liesel’s brother Werner at an unnamed town. Later Liesel steals her first book which we later find out is The Grave Digger's Handbook. Eventually Liesel arrives to the town Molching where they have found their destination, Himmel Street. Waiting for Liesel are the Hubermanns Liesel's new foster family. Death then tells you a little bit more of Liesel’s story and you also learn a little bit about her father who people called a Communist but Liesel didn’t know what the word Communist meant. On the first day of living with the Hubermanns Liesel caused Rosa to get extremely angry with her but eventually Hans decided that Liesel didn’t need to take a bath so he decided to teach her how to roll a cigarette. Eventually after two weeks of living with the Hubermanns Liesel had her first bath and that is when she began to call Rosa and Hans, mama and

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