Similarly to Fahrenheit 451, death being frequent throughout The Book Thief impacts Liesel’s life. However, The Book Thief is narrated by death himself. Death is not the reason why people die in the novel but he rather exists due to the reason that people are dying. He informs readers from the beginning that the novel is a tragic story as we encounter the death of Liesel’s brother in just the first couple of pages of opening the book. As it is the death of her brother, it impacts her very much now that she has to join her new foster family solely. But it is the death of her brother which first causes her curiousness towards books as she finds a book at the burial site of her brother. In particular since this book takes place at the time of