When it comes to analyzing The Book Thief the author used literary devices such as sensory details and the images throughout the book in order to convey the mental state his characters are in or their backstory. The Book Thief shows what happened to people during the Holocaust and what some of them had to do to survive, so the sensory details would give emotions about how they felt and the images showed the tragedies of their lives. To start off with, the sensory details showed off the emotions these people felt while hiding out or living in the Holocaust. When we hear from Hans that Leisel’s mother was most likely dead, Liesel expressed grief and the fact that she hated Hitler for destroying her family, Her brother had died while trying to