The Shoulder Shrug, from a book burning on Hitler's birthday and hints at many of the events that follow. She steals it out of anger and hatred, feelings that Liesel associates with Himmel Street, her mother, and the Führer. Death remarks that Nazi Germany was built in particular on burning: synagogues, houses, Reichstags, and books. Death describes how Liesel's second act of thievery propels the events of the story that are yet to come, an act that is preceded still by her hunger for words. Liesel…
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