8th February 2019

The Book Thief

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Death and color.

Death explains that he focuses on the ever-changing rainbow of the sky, and his favorite color is chocolate brown. The colors allow him to relax and provide a distraction from the difficult work of collecting souls. The ”leftover humans” the survivors are worrisome to him, and he needs to focus on something else. He will use colors to explain subconscious feelings that we associate with what’s happening in the text, as a quick way to describe something that we already understand in our head. Mainly using red, black, and white.

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