The Floating Book/The Gamblers/Rudy's Youth (p. 241-271)

Wow. This first section really wowed me and really affected my mood. Just to start of part five, one of the characters, Rudy,  is dead. This was the first one in the book since, as far as I know, Liesel's brother. Death hints that Rudy died in the cold Amper River, and as you would conclude, from hypothermia. Instead, Death hints that he died from a bomb, as it says in "his dusty, bomb-hit lips." This two-page section ended with "Even death has a heart." Which I found to say that Death has some emotion, or that Death was once human. 

"The Gamblers" started with the fact that the previous section was the ending of the book, which, is the worst thing you could do to someone reading a book they are very immersed in. Death follows up with the fact that mystery bores him/her/it, as Death does not seem to want to do what is not necessary. This section continued to show what happened during Max's stay with the Hubbermans. What happens comes in a seven-sided die. The seven sides are as follows:

1. The Haircut:Mid-April 1941
2. The Newspaper: Early May
3. The Weatherman: Mid-May
4. The Boxer: End of May
5. The New Dream: A Few Nights Later
6. The Painters: Early June
7. The Showdown: June 24

Even if these seven don't sound like much, it covers so many different things, and from April to June. All of these involve Max, and all of which range from "cute" to "I should stop reading or I'm going to cry".

"Rudy's Youth" was a section focused on Rudy Steiner and Tommy Müller. It mostly goes over how Tommy acquired his ear infection, and the result of it. This section also included Rudy and his tendency to get dragged into situations, good of bad.