Colour
Prologue- “In which our narrator introduces himself the colours”… “First the colours, then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least I try”
This may be significant in the novel because it makes us think that the narrator of the book sees colour before seeing ‘humans’, implying the narrator isn’t human. I think this is referring to seeing an ‘aura’ of someone, which is an inhuman quality. I think the colour red will be used to represent death, violence and love, and will be the colour around people who have passed??
Colour quotes:
The road of yellow stars- jewish homes
It’s hard not to like a man who not only notices the colors but speaks them”
A girl made of darkness”
” When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but its the three in which I saw in her flesh that resonate the most”
“The only thought that continually recurred was the yellow tear. Had it been dark, she r-ealised, the tear would have been black”
“The dark, the light. What was the difference”
“The sky was bleached bed sheet white each morning. All day long i carried the souls across it , that sheet splashed with blood”
A book of fire
Max’s dreams of Hitler
” In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of the enitre nation. One by one they climbed into the ring and beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them-until one last time, when he gathered himself to his feet…
He watched the next person climb through the ropes. it was a girl”
” There was also a rumour that later that day she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange. Something about a kiss. Something about a Saumensch.”
The Amper River is where Liesel saw how much Rudy loved her, by jumping into the icy water and risking himself to retrieve her book.
The Kiss
” She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Liesel kissed her best friend Rudy Steiner soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty adn sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchsits suit collection”