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"the words started piling up around him"

This shows personification because it is giving a non human, (words) human nature (piling). The author uses this to show that when Max is lonely all his thoughts just overflow

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"he has eight brothers and sisters"

This is a hyperbole because it is an exaggeration of how many siblings rudy actually has. The Author uses this hyperbole to get ruby out of trouble

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"after all the guilt was already there it was moist"

This is a metaphor because it is comparing guilt with moist without like or as. the author uses this metaphor to show that Liesel how Liesel felt

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"i stole at least three hundred apples and dozens of potatoes"

This is a hyperbole because she didn't actually steal that many it is an over exaggeration. The author uses this hyperbole to add to the story that she is telling to make it more interesting

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"he could transform a marching line into a dogs breakfast in the blink of an eye"

This is a metaphor because it is comparing two completely different things to each other. (a dogs breakfast and a marching line). The author uses this metaphor to show how hungry he really was

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"the feathery appearance of Max Vandenburg"

This shows personification because the word feathery means "having, covered with, or resembling feathers." This is in fact not a human feature which means they are giving a human a non human feature which is basically the definition of personification. The aouther uses personification to show how Max looks in detail

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"the juggling comes to an end now but the struggling does not" (pg 168) this shows that the struggle never ends and how brutal life can be

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"the surrounding air was a lovely, gorgeous, nausenting cold."

This is an oxymoron because the words gorgeous and nausenting have very different meanings. One being good and one being bad. The author uses this oxymoron to describe the air in real detail

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"you could argue liesel had it easy. She did compared to max" (pg 161) this shows how some people can be much more fortunate then others even when in a bad position

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"we move forward to a cold night struggle."  (pg157)

This shows the brutality of life and how it can be living without knowing whats going to happen next

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"another conversation between rudy and liesel "hurry up saumensch thats ten already ""its not its only eight i still have two to go"" (pg154) This shows how they don't really get along with each other

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""Goodbye frau hermann" these words always came as a shock" This shows that she hasn't really been around the best of people

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"She had stolen a book. Someone had seen her. The book thief reacted. Appropriately. Every minute, every hour, there was worry." (129) This shows the way she sees life and how scared she is because she has never been through something like it

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"To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. in it sits a jew. he is a scum. he is starving. he is afraid. please try not to look away" (pg138) This shows the racism there is in the book and how brutal it is

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"Perhaps it was her first realization that criminality spoke best for itself" (pg 126) This shows that she is learning stuff as she goes through life

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"there was a introduction to the girl and a "heil hitler.""Good Liesel"".

This quote shows that if you weren't to hail hitler you wouldn't be considered good. This shows how controlling and brutal life is at this time in germany.

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""Are we still friends". "An hour went by without a word". (pg 117)

This shows how brutal life can be

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"When Liesel tried to make her way through, a crackling sound prompted her to think that the fire had already begun. It hadn't. The sound was kinetic humans, flowing charging up". (pg 109)

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"saying those two words was often the best way to survive, as was doing what she was told". (pg 93)

This shows that if she doesn't do what she says she will be in big trouble

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"When the book thief stole her second book, not only were there many factors involved in her hunger to do so, but the act of stealing triggered the crux of what was to come. (pg 83)

This quote shows how this book has cause and effect and is foreshadowing something that is going to happen later in the book and will affect Liesel.

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""Look at the colors", Papa said. It's hard not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them. Liesel still held the book. She gripped it tighter as the snow turned orange. On one of the rooftops, she could see a small boy, sitting looking at the sky. "His name was Werner..."  (pg 87)

This quote is showing how Liesel is getting closer with her new dad by telling him her brothers name even though talking about her brother is still sensitive to her.

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""They'll come for us," Mama warned her husband. "They'll come and take us away." They. "We have to find it!" (pg 103)

This quote shows how bad and scary Hitler was while he was ruling over Germany

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"He says, "You know, Liesel? I nearly wrote you a reply and signed your mother's name." He scratches his leg, where the plaster used to be. "But I couldn't. I couldn't bring myself."" (pg 97)

This quote shows how her new dad wanted to make her feel better and to make it seem like her mother was still out there.

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"its the leftover humans
The survivors
Theyre the ones i cant stand to look at, although on many occasions i still fail."

This shows how even though hes been doing this for so long he still gets sad about people dying and its still a hard job for him to be able to do what he does. He struggles with the feelings of the souls hes taking away and its hard for him to see people on the brink of death but wont let go.

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"For Liesel it was a ride in a car. She'd never been in one before. There was the constant rise and fall of her stomach, ... Shivering. Bundled up in that useless coat. She'd be eating her nails, waiting for the train." (pg 26)

This shows how brutal life can be at such a young age.