The main character of The Book Thief is Liesel Meminger throughout the book she develops more and more by opening up and doing new things. At first, she was very shy and did almost nothing, for example: “It took him almost fifteen minutes to get her out of the car. The great man did it. Quietly.”(28) That’s when she got out of the car for the first time. “Then there was the gate she clung to.”(28) This further shows how shy she was at the beginning of the book when she started to arrive at Himmel Street. Then, as the book progresses, she begins to adopt the speaking style of her adoptive mother, Rosa or Mama and begins to insult some of them when speaking to her best friend, Rudy and even the wife from the mayor when she stopped her mother's laundry and ironing service. me this Saumensch of a book and it will make everything better when I go and tell my mother that we have just lost our last one? » (262) The underlined word is a swear word that his mother uses very frequently in the book. Then, later in the book, she feels so comfortable in Molching that she starts stealing books from the mayor's house. “She couldn't tolerate a lonely, pathetic old woman giving her these books. Stealing it, on the other hand, seemed a little more acceptable. » (287) This is from the first book she stole, called The Whistler. As the story progresses, she develops even more stealing food and books, while loving Rudy and spending more time with Max, the Jewish man hiding from the Nazis, and talking about more more like his mother. The main theme of The Book Thief is the power of words and how they can affect people. In the story, Max wrote Liesel a book called the word shaker, he explains that Hitler or the Führer, (the name they refer to Hitler as in the book, is g...... middle of paper ...... art. » (242) Denotative – Death is a heart. Everyone cares about something no matter what._______________________________________________________9. » to Max as if words alone could nourish him » (164) Denotative – Liesel gave Max the dream carrier as if words could make him better. better._________________________________________________10. “One was a book thief. The other stole the sky” (381) Denotative - one person stole the books, the other stole the sky. outside and wanted to be there instead of being stuck in a basement and Liesel loved books and wanted to read more so she wouldn't have to read the ones she had even more times..___________________________________________________________________