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. 

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.

The Swapping of Nightmares (p. 207-222)

This section was a rather emotional one for me. It covered Max and the first part of his stay at the Hubermanns. During this period, I found that Max was treated in such animalistic ways that he does not think he deserves anything anymore, and neither does he understand some basic human emotions. I found that this shows how horribly Jews were treated during the time period in Germany, and it makes me feel for them. During Max's stay, he stayed mostly in the basement in basically a pile of junk. Not only this, the basement was an extremely cold place, because it was winter at the time. The closest I have ever slept to this temperature was about 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and even then I was wearing some warm clothes. This man had barely anything to keep him warm. After Hans and Rosa decided that it was too cold for him to sleep there, during the night Max was moved up to the living room, with a fire, even though this was a potentially dangerous idea. This gave me some happiness, knowing at least it got better for someone. Because of the movement from the basement to the living room, Liesel went and talked to Max about his nightmares. It turns out that they had very similar dreams, both relating to saying goodbye to someone. Max's being literally waving, and Liesel needing to let go of her brother. This section ends with Liesel's twelfth birthday, and getting a new book. Max was not aware of this occasion, and therefore he did not get her a gift. In return, Liesel gave Max a hug, which he seems very incapable of doing.

The Accordionist

This section gave a consummate backstory to Hans Hubermann. It starts with how he had cheated Death the first time, which was by writing letters instead of going to war. This I found was heartbreaking, as the person who got him to write those letters died that day, the same way Hans would have died. As if this wasn't enough, this section tacks on what happens when Hans returns from the war, and gives his respects to Erik Vandenburg, primarily to return the accordion that he left behind, and used to teach Hans. He even finds out he has a son, named Max, which at this point I am overwhelmed by all of the feelings. Then came the beginning of Hitler's reign. This part mostly focused on Hans' application to the Nazi Party, for which he was put on the waiting list. Finally, this section ends with June 16, 1939, the day when he met Walter Kugler, the man introduced in an earlier section. Overall, everything now is connecting like puzzle pieces, and everything is also packed with feelings as well as details.

The Aryan Shopkeeper/The Struggler Continued/Tricksters

"The Aryan Shopkeeper" was one of the most joyful sections so far. It showed the relationship between Liesel and Rudy. There was also the shopkeeper, which was very happy for their business which shows that the shopkeeper did not get many sales.
"The Struggler, Continued" showed the previously introduced character Max Vandenburg, in a short section about his journey in Stuttgart. Max has been transferred place to place until one day, he had been freed. He had been released into the world with nothing but a few toiletries and Mein Kampf. The section leaves off with him reading Mein Kampf on the train, as he traveled to his destination.
"Tricksters" I found was an interesting end to a character, named Arthur Berg. In this section Arthur did a lot to help Liesel and Rudy steal, as he was the leader of the group.  Despite this, Arthur had to move away, and never to be seen again. Not before giving the pair of thieves a bag of chestnuts to use.

The Attributes Of Summer

I found this section to be very descriptive of Liesel's summer, and even a bit emotional. It starts with the list of what Liesel did for the summer, which was reading, soccer, and stealing. The reading was in two places, the first being at her house, and the second being the mayor's house. At her house, Liesel read The Shoulder Shrug, and at the mayor's house, she read everything she saw, as much as she could. As for the soccer, the majority of it was spent attempting to make up for what Liesel has done to Tommy Müller the previous year. After this, there was also some stealing involved. This included Liesel and Rudy working with a group of people to steal immaculate apples from a tree. Overall, this section was very unique, showing how Liesel spent her summer.

Enter The Struggler

This section had so much information and emotion packed into four pages. It starts with Death talking more directly to the reader, which I found to be a good change from the normal third-person thing that Death does normally. But, because of the change, along with Death saying "Now for a change of scenery," I knew something was coming, and it was definitely not good. There was a Jew locked away somewhere in a room. He was locked away and so deprived of everything that he paid attention to everything, especially the sounds. Then someone came along to give him a few items, including some food and an identity card. After that came the most shocking piece of detail I have heard so far, which was that the person who came in to help the Jew was Hans Hubermann. Overall, I think this was a very interesting and emotional section, even for four pages.