On page 285, Liesel makes a weighty decision.
"At that very moment, Liesel was presented with a decision. Could she truly carry out what she was thinking? Could she really take revenge on a person like this? Could she despise someone this much?
...After all, the guilt was already there. It was moist. The seed was already bursting into a dark-leafed flower. She weighed up whether she could really go through with this. At a crossroad, she stopped.
'I know a place.'"
This is Liesel's decision to rob Frau Hermann. It represents a change in Liesel, as she comes to the crossroads. She chooses to take the darker path, regardless of her guilt. In choosing this path, Liesel is recognizing a side of her that we haven't seen yet- a spiteful, harsh, vengeful side. After this, there will be no turning back, or so I believe. Liesel has seen too much and knows too much about Hitler and the Jews and her communist mother to blindly accept what is happening, and she is taking her own form of protest.
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