Death Figurative Language

People tend to have this fear, discomfort, and at times even hatred towards the darkness of death. We have always portrayed death as a grim reaper, with the long black cape covering his bony, thin, skeleton body, holding a scythe on his right scraggy hand. In today’s society, and even in history, people have never given death a positive reputation unless it has to do with evil intentions. For the first time in literature, death is given a voice, a chance for us to hear what he has to say about humans and what he really goes through. Markus Zusak was capable of giving death the characteristics of a human and give it a different point of view. Death as a narrator captivates the story of this little girl named Liesel by using his unique techniques of point of view, foreshadowing, and figurative language. As he describes, “ It’s a small story really, about, among
The reason for this is that we are not used to hearing a non-characteristic things having a voice. .“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”, says death. Believe it or not he doesn’t like seeing people die. He sees them at their best and at their worst. Sometimes he believes that they aren’t ready to die, and they still have so much to live for. Others are lucky enough that he gets called for duty, but for whatever reason they escape from him. In death’s point of view he doesn’t really get attached to people, but in some occasions he does and in this one he is intrigued with Liesel. The advantage of having death as the narrator instead of Liesel is that death can predict what will happen next. He can see the future and coming up events that a twelve year old, German girl is not able to see. If Liesel was the one telling the story so many events and detail around her would be missing because through her eyes she see the world in one way; from someone above her can see the whole world around