The Book Thief

The Book Thief

What the following quotes mean? .... The paranoia itself became the punishment.

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Liesel was scared of getting caught. She felt that at any moment a school teacher might catch on to her thievery or a police man might come to her door. The paranoia of this became her punishment for stealing books.

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