colors

[elizabeth miller]

I know a lot of questions are about Death but I was wondering why he saw the colors he did when there was a death. Some red, black, white. Do the colors represent the manner in which a person died, what the people in the surrounding areas are reacting, or is it just randomly assigned by the author? 

[Chace K.]

In general red and black are commonly associated with Death and mourning. As for white I don't know if it has a direct relationship to the death that is happening in the book but for red and black I believe that is why those colors are seen by Death when there was a death.

[Mete Bakircioglu]

The use of colors, and the fact that they appeal to Death is what I believe to be Death trying to understand the human race. Death states on many occasions that he cannot produce an objective stance on the human race as a whole because of the polarity of it. While some humans are kind-hearted, there are just as many with evil and hate in their hearts. The association of colors might be Death trying to connect to humans through something he understands, nature.