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Dark chocolate symbolizes wholesomeness, stability, resilience, and reliability.

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The color white represents winter, blinding snow, the "coldness" of death, and the innocence of a young soul.

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Death's job is to take away the souls of dead bodies. His line of work tires and saddens him.

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He uses colors, specifically of the sky, to distract himself from his job. He focuses on color to describe what is going on around him. Color becomes an important theme in The Book Thief.

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The color red represents violence, blood, emergency, danger, compassion, and love.
Death's description of the red sky suits the atmosphere of the bombing he describes.

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Death describes the moment saying, "The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and sitrring in some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness then, bombs" (Zusak 12).

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The color blue represents peace, happiness, brilliance, and courage.
The scene of the colored blue sky shows Liesel's courage and strength being able to get out of the terrible suffering in the Nazi regime.

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The color yellow symbolizes warning/hazard, sunshine, happiness, youth, and optimism.

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The color black represents the absence of color or life, destruction, mourning death, and the terror of the Nazi regime.

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Silver represents security, reliability, calmness, wisdom, love, and friendship.

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The color white comes into play when Death is describing one of his flashbacks. He goes back to the moment where he first saw the book thief, Liesel. Death was there for her younger brother. It was a cold winter night by the side of the railroad. There was Liesel, her mother, and her younger brother Werner who died.

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Death mentions, "It was white. It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Trees wore blankets of ice. I studied the blinding, white-snow sky who stood at the window of the moving trains...Curiosity got the better of me, and I resigned myself to stay...Twenty-three minutes later,...a small soul was in my arms" (Zusak 6-8)

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The color white represents both the environment Death has come to and a distraction for him. The scene of Liesel's mother grieving intrigued Death. He fails to be distracted by wanting to learn more about the situation.

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In The Book Thief when Death describes the dark chocolate colored sky he says, "Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky. Dark, dark, chocolate. People say it suits me" (Zusak 6).

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Death himself prefers a chocolate brown sky. Death is very stable and resilient being able to take away souls from their dead bodies. Death remains wholesome since he retains his feelings for and against humans. His wholesomeness is shown to be intrigued by the book thief.

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The blood-red sky he describes enhances the sense of violence, danger, and death. Liesel loses her loved ones in the bombing. Losing her loved ones represents the sense of compassion Liesel had for her family.

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Death describes Rudy's hair as the color of lemons, "Things like Rudy on a dais with three gold medals slung around his neck. Hair the color of lemons was written beneath it" (Zusak 44).

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Death describes Rudy as a boy with golden traits. The sky is tinted yellow during the bombing, and air raids. The bombing and air raids support the symbol of hazard.

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Death describes Han's silver eyes, "Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. Like soft silver, melting, Liesel, upon seeing those eyes, understood that Hand Hubermann was worth a lot"(Zusak 34).

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The description Death gives further enhances Hans as being a strong characteristic of the traits.  The use of the color silver shows Death's fascination with colors. Death even remembers the less common colors of the sky. Death will remember the color silver even in moments as tragic as Rudy's death.

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Black was the color used for the swastika, the symbol that idealized Hitler's ideals.

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Liesel explains the darkness she sees above her, "Above me, the sky eclipsed - just a last moment of darkness - and I swear I could see a black signature in the shape of a swastika. It loitered...above" (Zusak 491).

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The black sky and swastika enhance the atmosphere of mourning, and utter destruction felt at the time of the pilot's death.

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Death describes her death explaining, "She died in a suburb of Sydney...The sky was the best blue of afternoon. Like her papa, her soul was sitting up" (Zusak 543).

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Blue represents her reaching the end of her life. Before she dies, she is at peace and happiness with her family. The color blue emphasizes the setting by explaining the peaceful end of her life. Her time has finally ended in the terrible Nazi regime.

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Quick Personality Test: What COLOR are you?