Character Analysis: The Book Thief

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Often, most people have never enjoyed the feeling of being abandoned by your close ones, relatives, etc. because it causes their lives to become more challenging and difficult. Many aspects of someone being abandoned by someone, can often have a long term-effect on the person’s overall well-being. In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel, the main protagonist of the story, is a character that is constantly throughout the novel being abandoned by both certain circumstances, as well as the

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