The climax of a story is the moment of greatest emotional
intensity, when we have been led to a high point through the rising action to a
significant moment of suspense. In this novel, the climax comes at the end of the novel
when Liesel's world is literally blown apart by a bomb raid, and all that she knows and
everybody that she loves (almost) is killed:
In the space of a few minutes, all of them were
gone.
A church was chopped
down.
Earth was destroyed where Max Vandenburgh had stayed
on his feet.
Death is shown
to move around all of the people, friends and family of Liesel, claiming each one of
them. However, Liesel is saved because she was in the basement of her house, and thus
she is pulled out to face another day and does not meet Death ultimately at this point
in the story. She is left to be looked after by the mayor's wife and to be reunited with
Max at the end of the tale.
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