What happens at the end of the book thief?
Everybody she loves dies while they sleep. In despair over their deaths, Liesel drops her book, but it’s picked up by Death. The novel ends with Death giving Liesel back her book, The Book Thief, as he’s taking her soul away from her body.Click to see full answer. Then, how does Liesel die?Liesel does not…
Everybody she loves dies while they sleep. In despair over their deaths, Liesel drops her book, but it’s picked up by Death. The novel ends with Death giving Liesel back her book, The Book Thief, as he’s taking her soul away from her body.Click to see full answer. Then, how does Liesel die?Liesel does not die during the main course of events in The Book Thief. Everyone else she knows other than Max Vandenburg dies prematurely in a bombing raid on Molching, but Liesel survives until old age, when the narrator Death informs her that her manuscript telling her story was saved by him.Beside above, do Max and Liesel end up together? Although they remain close and have a deep connection, they do not marry and Max has to flee Liesel’s foster family’s protection eventually to escape the Nazis. Although some readers have speculated that Liesel marrying Max is implied by the events of the book, Zusak has stated this is not the case. Besides, does Rudy die in the book thief? Rudy dies at the end of the book when a bomb unexpectedly finds its mark and destroys Molching.What is the message of the book thief?Zusak posits several messages in The Book Thief, most prominently the message that humans have the capacity to be resilient and compassionate. Throughout the novel, the characters are faced with incredible obstacles that they manage to overcome because they have developed compassionate relationships with others.
