The main character of The Book Thief is Liesel Meminger who throughout the book develops more and more by opening up and doing new things. At first she was very shy and did almost nothing, for example: “It took almost fifteen minutes to convince her to get out of the car. The tall man did it. In silence."(28) That's when she first got out of the car. "Then there was the gate, which she held on to."(28) This shows even more how shy she was at the beginning of the book, when he arrived on Himmelstrasse. Then, as the book progresses, he begins to adopt the speaking style of his adoptive mother, Rosa or Mama, and begins to swear when talking to his best friend, Rudy, and even his wife. of the mayor when he interrupted his mother's laundry and ironing service: "You give me this Saumensch of a book and it will put everything right when I go to tell my mother that we just lost the last one?"(262) The underlined word is a swear word that his mother uses very often in the book. Then finally, later in the book, he feels so comfortable in Molching that he starts stealing books from the mayor's mansion. “He couldn't tolerate a pathetic, lonely old woman giving them to him. Stealing it instead seemed a little more acceptable."(287) This is from the first book she stole, called The Whistler. As the story progresses, she develops even more stealing of food and other books, as well as to love Rudy and to spend more time with Max, the Jewish man who was hiding from the Nazis, and talks more and more like his mother. The main theme of the book thief is the power of words and how they can affect people. In the story Max wrote Liesel a book called the word shaker in which he explains that Hitler or the Fuhrer, (the name by which they refer to Hitler as in the book, is g...... in the middle of the paper... ... art."(242)Denotative- Death from a heart. Connotative-everyone cares about something, no matter what.____________________________________________________________________9."She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if only words could nourish him."( 164)Denotative- Liesel gave Max the dream bearer as if words could make it better. Connotative: Liesel cared about Max and really wanted him to get better.______________________________________________________________________10. “One was a book thief, the other stole the sky.”(381) Denotative: One person stole the books, the other stole the sky. Connotative: Max loved the outdoors and wanted to be there instead of being stuck in a basement and Liesel loved books and wanted to read more so she didn't have to read the ones she had over and over again.___________________________________________________________________