Death ends the story by saying that he’s “haunted by humans” because he’s afraid of the complexity of humans, as well as humans themselves. On page 490, he talks about how Liesel looks right at him, and he wondered if he could see her. He says “Could she hear my cursed circular heartbeat, revolving like the crime it is in my chest?”, and he talks about how she seemed like she knew him, and stared into his face with out flinching, which startles him, because no one has ever really looked at him in a way that was strong and unafraid.
On page 491, he says that humans don’t have a heart like he does, and that he always finds humans at their best and their worst. He sees the ugly side of them and their beauty, and he wonders how they can be both. He is interested in their hypocrisy, and how they can talk about being nice and loving to one another, but in the Führer’s case, he practices the opposite, and he sets out to …show more content…
It’s one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in it’s own right. Each one an attempt- an immense leap of an attempt- to prove to me that you, and your human existence are worth it.” He needs someone to tell him that humans are worth living on earth, and he doesn’t know enough about them to make this decision for himself. There are also two types of people in his current environment. The Nazis, who are constantly taking everyone down, or people like Liesel who add a little bit of good back into society by contributing with art, music, or literature. These stark differences cloud his vision, but someone such as LIesel, who is so pure and full of good, are the stories he likes to keep around, and the ones he really believes are worth life. People such as her haunt him after they pass, because he can’t forget their stories or their lives. In conclusion, Death says that he is “haunted by humans” because he is perplexed and confused by the hypocrisy that many people
On page 491, he says that humans don’t have a heart like he does, and that he always finds humans at their best and their worst. He sees the ugly side of them and their beauty, and he wonders how they can be both. He is interested in their hypocrisy, and how they can talk about being nice and loving to one another, but in the Führer’s case, he practices the opposite, and he sets out to …show more content…
It’s one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in it’s own right. Each one an attempt- an immense leap of an attempt- to prove to me that you, and your human existence are worth it.” He needs someone to tell him that humans are worth living on earth, and he doesn’t know enough about them to make this decision for himself. There are also two types of people in his current environment. The Nazis, who are constantly taking everyone down, or people like Liesel who add a little bit of good back into society by contributing with art, music, or literature. These stark differences cloud his vision, but someone such as LIesel, who is so pure and full of good, are the stories he likes to keep around, and the ones he really believes are worth life. People such as her haunt him after they pass, because he can’t forget their stories or their lives. In conclusion, Death says that he is “haunted by humans” because he is perplexed and confused by the hypocrisy that many people