Book Thief #4

I finished The Book Thief last week.  I thought it was good.  The story wasn't really driven by a suspenseful plot, so by the end I was getting somewhat bored.  Overall, I really enjoyed it and I would recommend it for the people who like books like books like that.  

This is somewhat of a stretch, but the ending reminded me of the movie Titanic.  Liesel, the main character, who was a young girl living in the middle of World War Two, was forced to move to a small town In Germany and live with her foster parents.  She made many friends, her best friend was a boy named Rudy, and she loved her foster parents.  The book itself was nothing like the story of Rose and Jack on the Titanic, but the endings had the same feel.  Throughout the book, Liesel didn't act like a normal German girl should.  She played with boys, stole, and wanted to learn how to read, but most of all she liked the Jews and opposed the Nazis.  This is somewhat like how Rose didn't want to live a rich, lady-like life, and how she opposed her parents.  At the end of the book, the whole town was bombed and nobody survived, much like when the ship sunk and only few survived.  Liesel was the only survivor, and it was only because she was in the right place at the right time, just like Rose luckily floated above the water until the rescue boats came.  Then, her best friend Rudy died in the bombing and Liesel was very sad because she loved him.  This is the same idea in the Titanic when Jack died.  Liesel then moved on in life, got married, and lived like a normal person, just like Rose did.

I think the book really had a powerful ending and I though the characters were very good.  I also like that the book was narrated by death, I don't think the story could have been told in a better way.