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The Book Thief - Part One

In part 1, which is chapter 1, of The Book Thief you find out that the narrator is Death. It starts off with a girl and a boy on a train with their mom.  The boy starts to cough a lot and then dies. It’s at that moment that the girl, Liesel, sees the narrator, Death. She cannot believe that her brother is died. They bury him at the next town the train stops at. Liesel steals her first book after they finished buring her brother. The book was one of the gravediggers’ handbook. Liesel later arrives at her new home with her foster parents. She then meets the other kids in her neighborhood.

I was surprised to find out the narrator was Death. I have never seen that in a book before. I think it is crazy want the girl has to go through. I believe the author’s intent was to introduce most of the character and the narrator through chronological organization.