The ending

Like I said before, I have recently finished The Book Thief and I thought it was very good. I would read it again when I get the chance. I think I liked it so much because it was able to draw me back in all the time. There is suspense throughout that whole book. All the time the suspense would kill me and I would want to read more. By using so much suspense it really brings his readers back in and wanting more. That is what happened to me. The ending to this book was good. I know some people like to just jump right into the end of the story to cheat and get a glimpse of what is going to happen. In this ending there was a surprise. The surprise to this ending was Rosa and Hans Hubermann died. I never would of thought that they were going to die. But I guess because one of the main themes is death that they were ment to die. Another surprising thing that occurred was that Max was still alive. I was stunned. All of the characters in the book were so convinced on Max being dead. No one believed that he was alive. Him coming back was a huge surprise to the reader. I personally did not know what had happened to him and I thought that him coming back was a major surprise. Leisel was able to survive in all of this dying going on. She survived in a very odd way. She survived because she was downstairs writing her book and just being herself when the bombs went off. This I found interesting that she survived because of that book she decided to write. If she never started that book the story could of ended right there. Later on in life she ended up dying. I find it interesting that death was able to take so many lives and even make people think that death was upon them all the time. But Leisel never dies in the story and with all of the death I thought that maybe she would be another and the last victim to death. This was an overall excellent book and I will definitely read it again.

The death point of view

I have finished The Book Thief and I enjoyed it. It is not the typical book and by no means is the story just about someone who goes around and steals books for fun. It is a very suspenseful book that I would recommend to all who are interested in reading. I am pretty sure there is a movie on this book too but I am not sure if it is any good. Or how similar the two of them are. If you guys know then let me know. I'm debating on whether or not I want to see the movie. This story is very different from other stories. The point of view of this story is told by death. This is the first book I have read that is told by the perspective of death. It makes things very interesting. This story is told by an unidentified person known as death. The main purpose of death being the narrator is to provide Liesel's point of view and to also provide information about Liesel as a young girl and stuff we would not know about. It makes it easier to provide glimpse of World War II. By using death as the narrator it provides a unique perspective on all of the death that occurs during the book. Death in this story is something that happens a good amount. Seeing how its the time period of the holocaust and millions of people lost their lives. I think the use of death as the narrator is used because it has a connection to the time period and war. Death is almost like a person. It gets all of the information and things it knows just like we do. It gets all of it from personal experiences and from what it hears and reads about things. Death is telling the story of The Book Thief, which tells about the book Liesel writes about her life. I think that the this story being told in the point of view of death makes it better. I feel as if we would not get the same feeling of what is going on if death did not tell this story. Once again this is a very good book that all should read.