The Next "Chapter" of The Book Thief is confusing. The man's point of veiw clouds the real image of what's happening, because when you want to figure out what's happening in the main story, he constantly stares at something else, or other things that are happening, more important to him, and not so much the reader. What I was able to discern, is that this book is placed in the time of Hitler's rule. The girl and her small family are on a train, and they are going somewhere. If they are by themselves or not, It is impossible to tell. They are accompanied by German guards, who say very little. The man, (Possibly death), was there for the girl's brother. The train stopped, and waited while the girl and her mother buried the boy. there was a small ceremony, and that is where the girl found the book.
Nobody noticed when she took the book from the burial site, but it was dropped from one of the guards. at this, the man left, because his job was to ferry the boy's soul to the afterlife.