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Analysis Of The Book Thief By Elie Wiesel
The narrator is Death. He sees life in terms of colors because he views the world in terms of color. He understands his role and task in the world by using color

The thing that was ironic about the first book LieseI stole that she didn’t know how to read yet she dug up a book that was about grave digging in a graveyard. The thing that is ironic about is that it relates to heaven, and the street didn’t have anything to do with heaven in the war.

This statement should not be taken literally because burning things was like cleansing all that they felt was wasted by the Germans.

The cliffhanger was when Max had arrived at the Hubermanns' home. It was effective because it encouraged me to find out what had happened when he had arrived

When the platoom was supposed to go to battle, the Sergeant asked which one of them had neat handwriting. None of them had volunteered. The Sergeant says that whichever man volunteered will have to go battle, but none of the men wanted to seem like a coward. Erik nominated Hans, who got sent to write letters for the captain.
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Han’s friend was unable to speak up, but Hans had saved the accordion to remember him and the suffering.

When Liesel read The Whistler in the bomb shelter, she found out that she had the power of words to have an effect on human emotions.

“Death” characterized the year 1942 as occupied. I think the author has Death narrate the tale because Death is meant to be an ironic individual. It is ironic that Death should narrate one of these moments. Death usually becomes chatty and ironic to hide his ideas and sometimes emotions about humanity.

Zusak is using the metaphor of the trees to represent that hate and the culture of hate needs to be cultivated. Just like love, the seeds of hate need to be care for and fed with hate to result in the type of garden embraced by the

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