Live with what you have

I think a theme is starting to develop at this point in The Book Thief. Live with what you have and make the best of it. Throughout the book we see things are not the best for Liesel and she is living in poverty. No matter what happens though she finds some way to make the best of things, like reading. In the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bI1ucr_Y3U it talks about a holocaust survivor who had to dispose of dead bodies, ultimately his mothers body. He knew he could not take her body or he would have the same fate. It is a way more extreme example but he had to live with knowing what he could do, and make the best of it. That being his motivation to stay alive and he survived telling his story. Also at the end of the clip it talks about everyone getting taken away, no one speaking on there behalf only for the fact it was not them being sent to concentration camps. Until everyone was taken and no one was left to speak for them. This could also relate to Rudy's character. Whenever Liesel tries to bring up the topic about what is going in Germany all he says is, "Forget about it, be glad it's not us". In my opinion this will come back to haunt him later on in the story.