” it was blue, and burnt at the edges, but otherwise unhurt.”

Markus Zusak uses personification to bring life to the book that is being talked about by giving the reader a clearer picture of the books appearance, he does this by giving life to the book by giving it a human attribute that a book wouldn’t usually have he makes it out like the book has lived a life and that the book has feelings. The book thief says ” but otherwise unhurt” to give the book feelings so it can help the reader understand the books appearances and how it got to look the way it does. It has been told to us that the book is unhurt to the reader this is an unusal word to use for a book when it isn’t damaged because if an object in our life wasn’t damaged we would say that it was not damaged not that it was unhurt because an object like a book doesn’t get hurt so therefore it can’t be not hurt because a book as we know doesn’t have feelings. The author Markus Zusak does this because he teaches the reader that something like a book has feelings and to make the book a more real/living thing in the world. Markus Zusak also uses emotive language to arrise emotions in the reader he does this by using the words “blue” this is because the word blue can arrise many different emotions in the readers like sad, calm. When we think of blue we think of water, calm etc so in the book so there for it can arrise times in the readers life where they felt calm or sad and they can relate those feelings to that colour. The author does this so the reader can feel more connected with the book and understand the reasoning for using that colour instead of a colour like red or white.