THE BOOK THIEF Prologue, Part One (cont.)
II. Personification-Personification is a device in which an author grants human quali-
ties to nonhuman objects or concepts. For example, in this novel. death is personified
and given the attributes of thoughts and emotions:
I buckled-I became interested. In the girl. Curiosity got the
better of me, and I resigned myself to stay as long as my schedule
allowed, and I watched.
How does the use of personification shape the reader's reactions to Death? What is
surprising or unexpected about the author's personification of this universal condition?

d

explanation:

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).