Liesel's Death In 'The Book Thief'

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“You are going to die” (3). The narrator of “The Book Thief” confesses to the reader. “I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away” (4). This is how death explains the day you will finally meet him. The narrator known more as Death, tells the story of a little girl in Molching, Germany named Liesel and her life growing up during the Holocaust and World War ll. Throughout the novel, colors are seen by Death to distract him from his grueling job as he carries the souls away from their bodies. As time passes on, Death soon meets Liesel and many of her loved ones, including her brother, her best friend, and her mama and papa, each with different colors painting the sky. Are you little disturb yet? If hearing that the narrator is Death himself wasn't bad enough, he also explains how you two will …show more content…

For those you think white is not a color, Death explains it is most definitely a color and he would know. Death comes for the soul of Liesel’s younger brother during the cold winter months, hints the blinding white blanket of snow. The soul of the small boy was the first to be taken in Liesel's life and the color white was the first one on display in Death’s painful job. As Death begins to recollect Liesel, he sees many colors but three stand out the most. “They fall on top of each other. The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red” (14). Red, White, and Black. The three colors of Liesel Meminger. The three colors of a book thief. Many devastating events included gas chambers full of Jews and the result of war left Death exhaustion and broken. Although Death carries many souls away, none could compare to the souls of Rudy Steiner and Hans and Rosa Hubermann. Death explains the night Himmel Street was bombed “The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was

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