Jack Voltin Sentence Outline Scaffold The Book Thief follows the journey of a young Liesel Meminger, a German girl living in the heart of Nazi Germany during WW2. A place filled with nothing but destruction and unrest. Yet despite all that, Liesel manages to find security in unexpected places. Despite Liesel's story being one of cruelty and loss, Liesel survives through the words she writes, stories she reads, and the comfort of friends and family that surround her. Liesel uses many things to persevere through tough times, but it’s her love of books that surpasses all the others in that aspect. But it's not just her love for reading those stories that makes them so important to her, it's also where those books come from that helps make them so …show more content…
It was just a regular dinner at the Meminger household when the narrator pointed out that Liesel always had a book around her, “As always, one of her books was next to her,” (Zusak, 90). Liesel always had a book with her, wherever she went, it was almost guaranteed that one of her books would be there too. Her commitment to bringing them everywhere shows how important they are to her and how much she relies on them. As time went on Liesel started running out of books to read, and since her family couldn't afford to buy more she started stealing them from the mayor's house. “Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it,” (Zusak, 287). To Liesel, stealing books felt like earning them. Whilst only taking one book at a time and returning it after she's done, Liesel shows that Behind the Thief is a good person in desperate need of more stories. Time had passed and Liesel was heading home after stealing her latest book from the mayor's house when her friend gave her a new name. But in late October 1941, it became official. That night Liesel Meminger truly became the book thief,” (Zusak, 292). Liesel was the book thief, she had gained a new identity. Except her new identity excited her, she was proud