The Book Thief

Death

Why does Death always describe such vivid colors?

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Death explains that it deliberately tries to notice colors -- as opposed to bodies and people -- in its line of work as a way of distracting itself from the survivors, whom Death considers to be more tragic than the actual dead.

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