Liesel Meminger

We meet Liesel Meminger in ‘The Book Thief’ when she was just 9 years of age. At such a tender age she has met with a series of unfortunate events like seeing her brother taken into the arms of death and separating from her mom and being left with a foster family. Liesel suffers a great amount of misery at the hands of fate. In the book, we see Liesel’s journey from being a troubled girl to becoming a smart, creative woman.

Liesel is brave and compassionate. Her character has developed from a bystander to a survivor throughout the novel. We as readers find ourselves going through a roller coaster of emotions ourselves. At times we sympathize with her, at times we disagree with her, but at every moment we feel connected to her.