Summary and Historic context

Summary

This story is about a girl named Liesel, who next to her brother who pitifully died on a trip. They were sent to Germany with a new family, Hand and Rosa.

Liesel began to have a friendship with his neighbor Rudy, who would be his only friend, next to a Jew named Max, who owed him everything for being saved in the war by his father.

One day the visitor Max was sick, because of the cold and humidity in the basement. Max was ill for weeks on the verge of dying listening to all the book "borrowed" from Lisa Hermann. If something Rudy to discover it nicknamed it "thief of books".

Over time Liesel was learning to read with the help of her father, which was the only thing that could distract her from the war she was living.

In the end the book she was writing was the one that saved her life.

Historic context

Anti-communism: followers of this ideology will be prosecuted and eliminated (Liesel's father is an example) Anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) Max Vandenburg suffer persecution, Hubermann being those who give refuge.

World War II was the first conflict in which aviation played a decisive role.

In Germany prior to World War II. Hitler's party is booming and his followers are more numerous every day. Throughout the history, it shows the interest of Liesel by Literature, while it is narrated how it must take sides and demonstrate all its value in convulsive times.