It is true that many humans believe that their dreams are trying to tell them something or, in the case of Max and Liesel, to haunt them. Max and Liesel both have recurring nightmares. Both are also of their past. Liesel is constantly seeing her brothers death in her nightmares and Max is constantly seeing his own regrets of leaving his family behind and eventually coming back to them being gone. These are the things they see when they close their eyes at night. Just like many others who dream of their past mistakes or of what haunts them. Everyone is afraid of something and it is human nature to make mistakes and have regrets. It can’t be uncommon for people to dream about the past, or about what scares them. These are what nightmares are and everyone dreams, whether they are good dreams or not. It is just the unconscious mind and it is possible to have recurring dreams. An other thing that is part of human nature is to feel selfish. Whether people choose to admit it or not they are selfish. One of the first things people consider when making decisions is how it affects them. This is also true for Liesel. She even gets involved in stealing and actually becomes a member of this club of kids stealing stuff. Her and Rudy steal food and books throughout the story. Stealing is a selfish thing, and everyone is selfish in their own way. It doesn’t mean that everyone steals, only that everyone is their own kind of selfish. Another thing that happens quite often in the book is death. the narrator of the book is Death. Death itself even states that, “You are going to die,” right on the first page of the book (Zusak 3). In the world everyone dies eventually. It is something you can’t escape. The book doesn’t exactly have the happiest ending and that’s how life is sometimes. This means that not everyone has a happy ending. Death is brutally honest.