“Liesel’s love for books is very apparent in this moment after she’s stolen the smouldering The Shoulder Shrug from the book burning. She’d rather let it burn her skin than abandon it”. In Markus Zusak’s “The Book Theif” he uses supposedly insignificant events throughout the book to reveal the more significant and deeper themes of the book. The deeper theme is the importance of words and how powerful they can be. Zuzak does this through events such as the book burning when Leisel stole the book “The Shoulder Shrug” and also how it also when Max painted over the pages of Mein Kamph down in the basement.