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Dialectical Journal For The Book Thief

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Death is our guide and narrator to The Book Thief. Death never got a vacation in the whole book. During war he has to work. When the war started it meant extra work for him. Death isn’t the bad guy in the book. Death goes through sadness and joy in the book. To distract himself from the sadness he always went through and often starts talking about the color of the sky after someone dies. The Book Thief is related to with war. It's set principally in the time of 1939 and 1943 in Nazi Germany. Both the Holocaust and World War II are going ahead right now. Fighting shapes the characters' lives and effect their decisions. The storyteller of the story, Death, doesn't take the war kindly. As a result of it, he can't get an
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