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Q. When Death says that the sky is the color of Jews, what is he really expressing?
He's having a hard time handling the volume.
He's thinking of how the Jews are being burned and escaping as heat.
He can only see the color of souls and nothing else.
There are many, many Jews dying—it's almost incomprehensible.
Q. What does Liesel's thieving represent?
Theft of knowledge
Freedom, rebellion, and theft of knowledge
Freedom
Rebellion
Q. Why does Liesel get disenchanted with words?
She's been hurt by words.
She's struggling to read them.
She realizes that Hitler needed words to do what he's done.
She can't find them.
Q. What is remarkable about Rudy's obsession with Jesse Owens?
Owens is a black man and Hitler wouldn't like that.
Rudy doesn't like sports.
Rudy is Jewish and Owens isn't.
Owens is younger than Rudy.