How can human beings be so ugly and so beautiful.
Why can their words destroy everything and shine?
The book thief did not understand, the story-telling Grim Reaper did not understand
When I finished reading the book I didn't figure it out.
Just hope that you can create a beautiful world with beautiful words.
When the Nazis killed the Communists, Lizel became an orphan, she didn't know how her father died, she didn't know where her mother went, but she watched her brother stop breathing.
On the way to bury her brother, she managed to peek into her first book.
The family who adopted her was kind and pure. But under the influence of the war, even eating became a luxury. Even the pea soup is thin.
His adoptive father was a painter who loved to play the accordion, and no matter what life became, he was full of music and life. Just like no matter how brutal the Nazis were, there was always love in his heart.
He then taught Lizaire to read and write in the basement. Lissell's thirst for words and books made her temporarily forget the misfortunes of life, the war and hunger. When she was still able to go to school, when she delivered clothes to the mayor's house, when she was sheltering from bombing in bomb shelters, she could not forget her books.
In the Nazi-lit fire, in the study of the mayor's wife, she "stole" one book after another.
Books grew up with her, never being able to read a chapter smoothly, and from her adoptive father to taking her to enjoy the sun by the river, enjoying music and enjoying words. To have to steal with Rudy in order to live. With the encouragement of the mayor's wife, he wrote his own story.
Because no one was shouting for the communists, the Nazi hand reached out to the Jews. During the Nazi persecution of the Jews, the adoptive father's family stole Max. She loves Max's feathery hair. When Max was sick because he hadn't seen the sun for a long time, she read to him every day until he recovered. It was just that Max still had to leave her house. He left her a copy of the Word Picker he had drawn himself.
The Fuehrer controlled people's minds with words. Make people desperate for war. Indulge in war and killing.
The Fuehrer used words to take away Liselle's home, her childhood partner Rudy, Max, her adoptive parents, her adoptive parents' children, her neighbors. The same words brought hope to Lizelle's life and nourished Lizelle's soul.
Why can words destroy everything and shine brightly? It is those whose souls are beautiful that make the words shine. But human beings are also ugly and beautiful.