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The Book Thief Death Analysis

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The narrator of The Book Thief, Death, written by Markus Zusak, does not have a skeleton structure. This can be inferred because he says, “And I don’t have those skull like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance” (307 Zusak). Therefore, one of the reasons why the third picture of Death can be considered least like the narrator is because he has skeleton hands. The third image can also be chosen as least likely to be Death in The Book Thief because Death specifically states, “I do not carry a sickle or scythe” and the Death in the picture carries a deathly looking scythe (307 Zusak). Although he is carrying a scythe, it can be inferred that Death in the third picture is the narrator because he wears a robe while the

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