https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5 By Markus Zusak en-us 2018-03-18 21:35:32 UTC 2023-07-09 20:30:31 UTC hello@padlet.com kelsey_griffin615 https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259333 The role of color in the novel is very significant to the novel The Book Thief. The narrator, Death, uses color to explain scenes throughout the novel: “I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see- the whole spectrum” (Zusak 4). ]]> 2018-03-18 21:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259333 kelsey_griffin615 https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259450 Black represents death and mourning because it is the absence of light, color, and happiness. Black is the main color of the swastika, so black represents the death that came from the nazis and their rule. While death went to retrieve the body of a dead pilot, he saw the sky as black: “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” (Zusak 491). ]]> 2018-03-18 21:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259450 kelsey_griffin615 https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259504 Red represents death through the color representing emergency and blood. Also, red is seen on the German flag. Death was explaining the last time he saw Liesel the sky was red and “like soup, boiling and stirring.” Death could hear the sirens, and he could see the “blood stream[ing] till it was dried on the road” (Zusak 12). 

]]> 2018-03-18 21:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259504 kelsey_griffin615 https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259561 Snow also represents death because of the first time we meet Liesel. Her brother is dying, and the outside weather is described and white and snowy. The white represents the “coldness” of death, as well as, purity and death of innocence. Liesel's little brother was still very young and innocent. 

]]> 2018-03-18 21:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259561 kelsey_griffin615 https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259608 Yellow represents youth, sunshine, optimism, and happiness because Rudy’s hair is described as “Hair the color of lemons” (Zusak 444). Also, yellow is a warning sign because the sky is colored yellow during bombing and air raids. ]]> 2018-03-18 21:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259608 kelsey_griffin615 https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259670 The color silver represents security, calmness, comfort, and love. Both Han’s eyes and the lettering on the Gravedigger Handbook are described as being silver. Han’s eyes “made of kindness, and silver” brings Leisel comfort in the night when she has nightmares and during the day when he reads with her (Zusak 34). The Gravedigger Handbook brings Leisel comfort and calmness because it reminds her of her brother. 

]]> 2018-03-18 21:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259670 kelsey_griffin615 https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259795 Blue represents happiness, harmony, and peace. At the end of the book, the sky is blue. This blue sky at the end of the book represents the strength and courage that Liesel has shown to get to this point in her life. Leisel is happy with a healthy family and the Nazi rule is over. ]]> 2018-03-18 21:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsey_griffin615/1t67hl30dat5/wish/243259795