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This passage about the boxing ring has a lot of metaphors. For example, "His mustache was knitted to his face." I really like this passage as the whole thing is a metaphor. This is because it was Hitler versus Max and they symbolize Germans against Jews. Also, when the whole crowd came into the ring, I think it symbolized that Hitler was turning all the Germans against the Jews. Hitler uses words instead of manpower.
— Mar 14, 2017 08:18PM
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Caelyn
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I love the way that Liesel describes the weather metaphorically. "The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole..." When Max commented about how only a child could make a weather report like that, I thought about maybe when you grow up, you lose that way of talking in metaphors. In my opinion, I like Liesel's way more.
— Mar 14, 2017 08:08PM
Caelyn
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I think that the author likes staring at the sky because he has written a lot about the sky in great detail. For example, "The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper streaked across the redness." It is amazing how the author uses so many metaphors for the one sky.
— Feb 24, 2017 01:16AM
Caelyn
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I think that the narrator is death because it says "I walked in, loosened his soul, and carried it gently away. All that was left was the body." Also, he was there at the train tracks when a person died. I also think the narrator is death because he says, "I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies." He said human instead of something else which indicates that the narrator himself is not human but something else
— Feb 23, 2017 07:34PM
Caelyn
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I love the personification the author wove into this book. For example, "The plane was still coughing. Smoke was leaking from both its lungs." I like how the author made the engine sound like they were lungs. Markus Zusak also has a lot of metaphors like this one, "Its wings were now sawn-off arms. No more flapping. Not for this metallic little bird." I like how the author compared the plane to so many things.
— Feb 23, 2017 04:20PM
