Lindsey Fleshood                                                                                 12-18-12

Topic: 

Death in Markus Zusak's 'The Book Thief'

Sources:

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print.

Category 1

Death: Forshadowing

"I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me soon enough and well enough."

pg.4

"I saw the book thief three times"

pg.5

"The last time I saw her was red."

pg.12

" If you feel like it, come with me. I will tell you a story. I'll show you something."

pg.15

"Before I show you, I think we should first take a look at what hewas seeing prior to his decision."

pg.127

"I would even suggest that they were polishing their wicked ways."

pg. 161

"As for me, I can tell you I most definately saw."

pg.165

"Soon I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages."

pg.168

"That was the first time Hans Huberman escaped me."

pg.178

"I'm spoiling the ending. I have given you two events in advanced."

pg.243

"Unknowingly, she awaits a great many things that I alluded to just a minute ago."

pg.310

"The bombs were coming and so was I"

pg.335

"...I can personally testify that this was not the case. I was there."

pg.389

"I had already picked up 200 souls. Iwas on my way to Molching for just one more."

pg.488

" I walked down Himmel Street in the dripping-tap rain, five nights later."

pg.528

"Come with me and I will tell you a story. I'll show you something."

pg.544

Category 2

Death: Emotion

"Curiosity got the better of me, and I resigned myself to stay as long as my schedule would alow, an I watched"

pg.7

It was a beautiful thing in some ways."

pg.9

"Iv'e seen more eclipses than I care to remember."

pg.11

"I wanted to stop. To crouch down. I wanted to say: 'I'm sorry child.'"

pg.13

"It is one of the small legion I carry, each extraordnary in its own right."

pg.14

" each one an attempt- an immense leap of an attempt- to prove to me that you and your human existence, are worth it."

pg.15

"Stupidly, I stayed. I watched."

pg.21

"Several times I warned myself that I should keep a good distance from the burial of Liesel Meminger'd brother."

pg.23

"Even death has a heart."

pg.242

"In truth, I think he was afraid."

pg.303

"They kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower."

pg.349

"I shiver when I remember- as I try to realize it."

pg.350

"'your job is to...' and then i stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me."

pg.350

"I picked up every soul as if it was newly born. I even kissed a few weary poisoned cheeks."

pg.350

"I cannot allow them to seduce me."

pg.376

"I pitied them."

pg.376

"It kills me sometimes, how people die."

pg.464

"Back and forth I traveled . Disassambled men. It was no ski trip, I can tell you."

pg.470

"Still, they (humans) have one thing I envy."

pg.491

“Just as I arrived myself, I noticed him standing there, recovering his breath.”

pg. 489

"with him, I tried a little harder."

pg.531

"He steps on my heart. He makes me cry."

pg.531

"Although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there."

pg.533

"perhaps I was trying to avoid her face, for the book thief was truly an irretrievable mess."

pg.537

"I am haunted by humans"

pg.550

Category 3

Death: Objection

"It would be better for a complete dream, but I really have no control over that."

pg.21

"He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing."

pg.21

"I waved. No one waved back."

pg.24

"I untangled him and carried him out. High above the earth, we sank together, to our knees."

pg.145

"Proof again of the contradictary of humans. So much good. So much evil. Just add water."

pg.164

"I could sense he would hold her for hours."

pg.167

"I've seen so many men over the years who think they are running at other men. They are not. They're running at me."

pg.174

"I shoveled up his soul with the rest of them and we drifted away."

pg.175

"Not many men are  lucky enough to cheat me twice."

pg.178

"I knelt. I readied myself to insert my hands through the blankets."

pg.317

“clearly,” Max agreed, but I doubt he was fooled.”

Pg.365

“I’m sure his eyes were silver and strained.”

pg.392

“I gathered up the soul of Robert Holtzapfel.”

pg.470 

“I know you, I thought.”

pg.490

"I stood outside Frau Diller’s."

pg.497

"I knew something he didn’t know.”

pg.498

“there was nothing I could do.”

Pg. 503

Category 4

Death: Opinions

“Me. I’m not sure if that’s such a good thing.”

pg. 394

“yes I must agree.”

pg. 395

“ I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”

pg. 491

"I could not fully share their enthusiasm.”

pg. 499

“Still, I’ll give him something, that Fuhrer. He had an iron will.”

pg.506

“Personally. I like to imagine her looking briefly at the wall.”

pg. 528

“Usually my curiosity leads to the dreaded witnessing of some kind of human outcry”

pg.533

"It’s lucky I was there."

pg. 539