Blog 1

One detail in the very beginning of this book that sort of puzzled me was the use of colors to describe events. On page 12 the narrator quotes "The last time I saw her [the book thief] was red." At first, I just went with it and continued to page 14 where the narrator says, "When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three [red, white and black] in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate the most."  I didn't exactly know how to take in this information, but my first guess was that the narrator was feeling red, as in reference to someone feeling green or sickly. Then I figured out that red meant anger, so was he angry towards her or maybe some current events? I figured out that the colors are used to symbolize different traits. When the color white is used after Liezel's brother's death, it symbolizes that he was pure, and had a kind personality. When the narrator discusses how he likes dark chocolate colored skies, it symbolizes his love of darkness and everything dark or bad in life. A song that I feel supports this thought was the song "Red" by Taylor Swift. The whole song doesn't actually describe colors and their coordinating feelings, but one line says "Loving him is red" and "Losing him is dark blue." The feelings chart inserted below actually coordinates with the song well where red symbolizes love and dark blue or purple stands for sadness. The image I chose to represent my thoughts was this color chart and the coordinating moods or feeling associated with each color.