Taking Risks In The Book Thief

In “The Book Thief”, A young Girl named Liesel Meminger, is taken to a foster family. The Hubbermans. They then teach Liesel how they go about their household and the responsibilities. On the way to the foster family’s house, Liesel and her brother took the train. Werner Meminger, Liesel's Brother, died on the train due to a “spurt of coughing”(7 pdf). He was lying sideways. When Liesel would go to sleep at night she would nightmare her brother on the train. Liesel has a tough life, she is 9 years old almost ten, without a mother father or sibling. Liesel finds a book called “The Grave Diggers Handbook” and since she picked it up people now call her “The Book Thief”. The Book Thief was getting help to read the book that she “stole”, by her papa, Hans Hubberman. …show more content…
Liesel and her family took a very dangerous risk by, Hiding a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement. Even though this was a very dangerous task, it was the only way to keep Max safe. Getting caught would be a terrible consequence because their family could get separated, or even worse, killed and that puts Max in dangerous also. Keeping the secret is hard, it could change your personality. When something that comes up reminds you of the secret, it could give it away.
Taking risks have huge impacts on peoples lives. They could change a person because if they have a big consequence then their most likely to remember what happened to them. I think the most important parts of the novel is when Liesel tries to find her brother by running away, only a few miles. Her neighbor and very close friend, Rudy ran away to find him