Color And Symbolism In The Book Thief

Like Liesel, Death has “a mountain to climb” (86). For Death, that mountain is overcoming his fear of humans. As we see through his narration of The Book Thief, he attempts to do so through color. The colors allow Death to distract himself from this fear and also reveal to us how he feels about the characters. At the beginning of The Book Thief death uses the colors black, red and white to symbolize the nazi flag. While death uses color he also uses his fear and perceptions of humans because death’s indecision about whether the human race is good or evil. But from Death’s analysis, human beings are capable at various times in the book of being good or bad.

In The Book Thief, it uses colors to describe the weather and feeling of the characters.
The weather correlates with the characters feelings. The colors that carried throughout the book was black, red and white. Black symbolizes destruction and mourning. In the book the color black feels like a theme because it goes throughout the whole book. As a black goes through the whole book, innocent people people are being killed because either of the bombing or because they were chosen to go into the war. But death says “ Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction”. The color red symbolizes violence, blood, emergency and danger. In the book red