The narrator of this book is Death. Death only comes when someone dies, to take their soul away from their bodies. In The Book Thief, Death said, When a plane crashed, Death reached for the soul of a dead man. Death appears whenever someone is dying throughout the novel. Death associates the death of people by certain colors in the sky so he can detach and distract himself from the personal experience of each character and people around them. Earlier in the novel Death mentions, Death’s work is sad and hence he [Death] often focuses on the color of the sky at the time of each human death to divert his attention towards the beautiful colors.

What’s ironic about the first book is that Liesel got the first book, The Grave Digger’s Handbook,