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Post by ashleyyoon on Aug 26, 2017 20:27:14 GMT -5
"I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue" (Zusak 307). After reading this passage, what do you think the author meant with finding a mirror while describing death?
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Post by baazjhaj on Aug 27, 2017 16:08:05 GMT -5
The author means to show that Death himself does not create dying. Death is simply someone who cleans up the mess. Humans are the ones that cause people to die.
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Post by simonplotkin on Aug 28, 2017 0:48:06 GMT -5
He does this to show that death is not a physical figure as in this novel. In reality you are your own death or someone elses. Dying is just the ending of a process that is your life and every action either increases or decreases how soon you will die. Today and when the novel took place, death by other human is very common. This is, in a literary sense, to directly address the reader and make them think. It is such a provocative statement that the reader is either confused or offended. It establishes death as a disgruntled, satirical character.
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Post by elizabuchanan on Aug 28, 2017 9:50:43 GMT -5
I agree with Baaz,throughout the novel it is emphasized that death and dying are two totally different things. I think that death even shows signs of compassion and remorse as he "cleans up" the souls of people who were good for the world (watching them pass, making mournful comments). But nonetheless he has a job to do, to harvest the souls of the dead all around the world.
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Post by Kaylee Buntyn on Aug 28, 2017 11:12:11 GMT -5
I somewhat agree with Simon, death is an individual thing a soul goes through. When the author is talking about looking in a mirror if you want to know what death looks like he is saying that you will be dead eventually making you the embodiment of death. Death is truly what you make it to be, so when the author is talking about how "I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance."(Zusak 307), he's saying th
at death is not a stereotypical thing or something that everyone goes through the same way.
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