Liesel's Character In The Book Thief

Death was gentle when handling different souls, like Liesel’s sick brother, Werner, Rudy, and Hans and Rosa Hubermann.

Death showed his softer side when handling Werner’s soul. He held the spirit very softly and treated him like a valuable object. “He warmed up soon after, but when I picked him up originally, the boy’s spirit was soft and cold, like ice cream.” While in Death’s arms, Werner, Liesel’s brother, was held gently, not harsh or harmful to his soul in any way. Death held every soul differently, as if what they did to die depended on how their soul was taken. He cared about how Liesel was feeling and how she was handling her …show more content…
When he takes their souls, Hans’ soul is described as one of the best ones. “His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - The ones who rise up…” Death talks about his soul as if it were a living object, because he cared about them. All of the souls he took, he cared about the damage and the pain and the chaos that was left behind. He knew and yet he still decided to do his job and pronounced that it wasn’t his business. There was something different about the book thief, though. The way she looked, and acted, and especially the way she wrote. Death could see that. He could also see that Hans, Liesel’s papa, was the one that she would always miss the most. More than Rosa or Werner or the boy whose hair would stay the color of lemons forever, and Death cared about her. He truly cared. “Even Death has a heart.” Death does have a heart, and it is portrayed throughout the book that he does care about his victims’ backgrounds, even if they deserved to live or to die. Even though he did his job, that didn’t affect the way that he treated those