By Markus Zusak

Interpreted by Amanda Thomas

Does this worry you? I urge you– Don’t be . I’m nothing if not fair.

Afraid

I do not carry a sickle or a scythe.I only wear a hooded black robe when it’s cold.

And I don’t have those skull-likefacial features you seem to enjoy

pinning on me from a distance. YouWant to know what I truly look like?

I’ll help you out. Find yourselfA mirror while I continue.

+ a large bonfire + a collection of deadletters + the suffering of her mother + the death of her

brother = The Fuhrer

CommunistThe word

*** Some Crunched Numbers ***In 1933, 90 percent of Germans showed unflinching support for .

That leaves 10 percent who didn’t.Hans Hubermann belonged to the 10 percent.

There was a reason for that.

Adolf Hitler

Black WhiteRed

*** The Colors ***

A train was movingIt was packed with humans.

A six-year old boy in the third carriage.

quickly.

died

The last time she saw her mother.

The last time she saw her

Brother.

*** Some Facts About Rudy Steiner ***

He was eight months older than Liesal and had bony legs, sharp teeth, gangly

One of six Steiner children, he was

permanently .

bluelemon

hungry

eyes, and hair the color of

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you…..

A boy who you. loves

To your left,perhaps to your right,

perhaps even straight ahead,you find a small black room.

In it sits a Jew.He is .

Please – try not to look away.

afraid

scumHe is starving. He is

No one wanted to bomb Himmel Street. No one would bomb a place named after Heaven, would they?

Would they?

She turns on her heel and looks as far as she can down this ruined canal that was once Himmel Street. She sees two men carrying a body and she

follows them.

The bodies of Mama and Papa, both lying tangled in the gravel bedsheet of Himmel Street.

She would not, and could not, look at Papa. Papa.

Not now.

Not yet.

*** A Last Fact ***

I should tell you that the book thief died

only yesterday.

Music borrowed fromEnya- A Day Without Rain

Enya- Watermark

Quotes Borrowed fromThe Book Thief – Markus Zusak