Pages from the Basement (p. 223-238)

So Max did get Liesel a birthday gift. This I found to be very profound start to the friendship between Liesel and Max. In this section, Max creates for Liesel a book, The Standover Man. He creates this book using pages from Mein Kampf, the one item that saved his life on multiple occasions. This showed how much Max values the relationship between him and Liesel, willing to risk his safety to make this girl happy. In addition to this, the attention to detail with this section is wonderful. The pages of The Standover Man were so detailed at one point I thought my book had leaked through. This gave me a high sense of immersion, leading me to enjoy this book even more than I currently do.