An Important Quote

Question

• Copy a quote from a character or the narrator. Explain why you think the quote is important for the novel and how it might be meaningful to you.

AGENDA

• P. A. C. T.
• QUOTE
• Importance to plot
• How It's Meaningful to Me

Narrator= Death

P.A.C.T. =

Plot

Atmosphere

Character

Theme

plot

• Tells of "survivors" and their stories
• Shares Liesel's story/ life
• Comes to take Liesel at the end

Plot: Quotes

• ''...It's the...survivors.They're the ones I can't stand to look at... I am telling you about... the story of one of those perpetual survivors..."' (Pg 5)
• “...If you feel like it, come with me. I will tell you a story…” (Pg 15)
• ''...I should tell you that the book thief died only yesterday... her soul was sitting up...'" (Pg 551)

Atmosphere

• Cynical
• Bewildered

Atmosphere: quotes

• "They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible... You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you...'" (Pg 309)

Atmosphere: Quotes

• ''...The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both...'' (Pg 491)

S. T. E. A. L.

DEATH:
Round & Static

character: Speech

• Sardonic
• Direct
• Frank

CHARACTER: SPEECH- Quotes

• “...They were glued down..A packet of souls… Was it fate? Misfortune? Is that what glued them down like that? Of course not. Let’s not be stupid. It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown by humans…” (Pg 13)

CHARACTER: SPEECH- QUOTES

• “...I don’t have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me…” (Pg 243)
• “...HERE IS A SMALL FACT: You are going to die...” (Pg 3)

character: Thoughts

• Sympathetic

CHARACTER: Thoughts- QUOTES

• “...I wanted to say: ‘I’m sorry, child.’ But that is not allowed…” (Pg 13)

character: Effects on others

• Everyone will end up in "'his arms''
• People end up running to him instead of running to others

CHARACTER: EFFECTS ON OTHERS- quotes

• "...You will know me well enough and soon enough...Your soul will be in my arms...I will carry you gently away…” (Pg 4)

CHARACTER: EFFECTS ON OTHERS- QUOTES

• ''...I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me...'' (Pg 174-175)

CHARACTER: Actions

• Exists only because we are mortal

CHARACTER: ACTIONS- Quotes

• ''...A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT ... I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result...'' (Pg 6)

Character: looks

• Not what we typically imagine
• Does not look like Grim Reaper
• Same "image' as humans

CHARACTER: LOOKS- Quotes

• “...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... You want to know what I truly look like? I’ll help you out. Find yourself a mirror…” (Pg 307)

Theme

• There is always some beauty found within ugliness and some ugliness found in beauty.

Theme: quotes

• ''...I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality... I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious...'' (Pg 550)

Copy a quote from a character or the narrator. Explain why you think the quote is important for the novel and how it might be meaningful to you.

Important quote

• ''...The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle... The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die..'' (Pg 491)