Blog Post on The Book Thief

I just read The Book Thief, this is a story of a girl in Nazi Germany and crazy and scary things happen to her, including risking her life for others, and stealing books. One of the most unusual thing about this book is the fact that is narrated by death.
Death, in the book is a not really a person, not really anything. When people die he carries their soul's in his arms, and he says that is his only and one job. I think people because of scary movies and stories would associate a figure of death as scary and threatening, like a big figure with a black hood and a bloody sword or stick. But, as death tells us in his book, he is not scary and he means no harm, and throughout the book I felt that he felt like any normal character, but I still felt it was a little weird for the book to be narrated by someone who wasn't really in the story that much.
The main character is a girl named Lisel,  whose brother dies on a train with her and her mother sends her to live with strangers, I think Lisel was represented by death because she too is lonely and sad in the world,  and that is why death is drawn to her so much. Not that she is dying or coming close to dying that often, but she understands death in the way her peers don't.
The name of the book, The Book Thief, is talking about when Lisel stole many books from houses and even from a burning fire. I think the name is supposed to be mean that even in such a crazy time,  before world war two and during, while one single girl suffered  she stole books. Out of all the crazy things that were happening, out of all the people who were dying, the author chose to write about a girl who stole books, making the book special and more interesting.