Can you remember a day in your life where the colors or lack of colors seemed to seize your eye’s attention, the pigments formulating a specific story that dances on your retina? To a normal person, this may seem a little strange to have the colors tell a “story”, but not for Liesel Meminger, a 10 year old girl whose perceptiveness and mind will make you question her age. “The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud and it’s stretched out like, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole…” (Zusak 249). But not everything is as sunny as it may seem, for Liesel, not understanding the magnitude of the problem the literally knocks on their door one night and makes the family swear to a secret, lives in Munich Germany.
