Mark Zk Speech Analysis

“At that moment, you will be lying there (I rarely find people standing up). You will be caked in your own body. There might be a discovery; a scream will dribble down the air. The only sound I’ll hear after that will be my own breathing, and the sound of the smell, of my footsteps. The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see—the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax. A SMALL THEORY People observe the colors of a day only at its
He distances a soul with its body, describing the latter encasing one’s soul. Others will probably react with screams that “dribble” through the air slowly reaching out to others in a desperate plea for help. Mark Zusak illustrates a death scene with mere words using tactile and auditory imagery. The reader can feel on their own the situation of being caked in something surrounding them. A scream can be heard inching closer, a trickle at first but rising to a piercing sound. Then Zusak moves on to Death’s obsession of colors, described using an aside from Death himself to the audience. Simply using these asides helps readers visualize death and any imagined features of Death every time he speaks to them. Dark chocolate suits death because of its dismal nature portrayed which juxtaposes nicely with Death naturally for humans. Zusak through Death describes colors as flavors appealing to the reader’s gustatory senses, but the visual imagery is stressed on the most as the “shades and intonations” of each moment in a day are described. The “waxy yellows,” “cloud-spat blues,” and “murky darknesses” are noticed by Death and thus are of clear importance to him. The passage above, placed strategically in the very first chapter of The Book Thief, hooks readers like never before using Death as the narrator and invoking all five senses and beyond to paint a vivid picture.