Death is the narrator of the book. He decides that there is no need for an introduction for himself because we will all know him soon enough. His job is to take our soul, but he also likes relating all of his soul collecting to colors. Death likes the color to be dark, dark chocolate when collecting souls because it becomes him. He describes a story about a perpetual survivor, the book thief, whom he had seen three times in the course of collecting souls. He first saw her, on a train when her brother had just passed. Once Death takes the brother’s soul, he becomes fascinated with the girl, so he decides to stay with her until the train stops. Before leaving the train, Death takes a glance at the girl and sees tears frozen to her face. The second