While she helps her mother with her laundry business, she loves going to the Mayor’s house, as they have a gigantic library full of books. Liesel could not believe “That such a room existed! (134)” Her habit of stealing is exposed when she continues to steal books from the Mayor’s wife’s library. Ilsa, however, tolerates Liesel stealing books from her library, and asks her to write a story of her own. Death witnesses,  “Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or piece together a sentence.” (154) This proves that not only is Liesel getting smarter by reading books, she is also gaining self-esteem as her morale progresses throughout the story. She grows very kind and considerate by having private reading sessions with Frau Holtzapfel, a blind woman who happens to be Rosa Hubermanns worst enemy. Even though Liesel Is aware of the rivalry her mother has with Frau, she is able to overlook that because she wants to help a blind woman by reading to her.

   

     

 Death makes a staggering analogy to food, as he describes the atrocity of the airstrikes on Himmel Street,

          “The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup,    boiling and stirring. In some places it was burned. There were black crumbs and pepper, streaked across the redness, (13)” Liesel however uses the power she has with her words, and is able to calm her neighbors down by reading the pages that are in her book. It was because of Liesel’s way of expressing herself, Death says "I am haunted by humans”(306). This is actually ironic as it is humans who are haunted by death. There were several other Germans who help Liesel find the kindle in her heart, and one important man was Hans Hubermann. It is evident that he has a passion for literature, as it is he who tutors Liesel in their basement. Hans however, admitted that he wasn’t a good reader himself. “To tell you the truth,” Papa explained upfront, “I am not such a good reader myself” (43). Quitting school in grade 4, it was possible that Hans himself could have been a “Book Thief” as he was very proficient but slow in his reading, even though he did not have the adequate education. He also did not seem to mind too much when Liesel stole books from the bonfire, indicating that he was against the book burning policies. Being in the role of a father, Hans exploits Liesels curiosity by teaching her the power of words.