The Book Thief summary – first 100 pages At the beginning of the book the narrator, Death, talks about himself: his “job”, how he wishes to go on vacation and how he manages to stay sane even if it is hard. He talks about the colour of humans’ death. Later, he introduces the main characters of the story. Death has flashbacks about the moments he met the Book Thief, the first one was on a snowy day when her little brother died. The second time he met her was after an airplane crash when the sky was black. Their last meeting was after a small German town was bombed, when everything was red. The book takes place in the World War II in Germany. Liesel, her mother and her brother are travelling to Munich because the children will be living
