Describe the tone used by Death in the following passages:

"Death’s language"

Describe the tone used by Death in the following passages:

War starts. “The fun begins” (page 78)

Liesel and Rudy find a penny and buy a lolly. “The day had been a great one, and Nazi Germany was a wondrous place.” (page 168)

Death describing events of 1942. “Sometimes the human race like to crank things up a little.” (page 330)

Death compares situation of families of Molching in basements sheltering from the air raids with that of the Jews – “at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower.” (page 403)

On the same day as Michael Holtzapfel’s funeral, 45,000 people die in Hamburg. “It was a busy day all round, really.” (page 537)