Mona's L.E blog

   In the first chapter, it starts off by the narrator talking about the last time he saw the book thief when the sky was "red". (As explained in the prologue, the red represents bombs.) Here, he only talks about it for a few lines, and it sounds as if he is talking to himself, and not necessarily explaining the event in detail. After the soliloquy, the story takes off. The plot takes place in 1939 when the book thief was nine years old. She and her brother, Werner were on their way to Munich, where they would be handed over to their foster parents. Riding on a train, their mother fully asleep, with Werner in her arms, the book thief sat next to her, half asleep. It was then when she realized that something was wrong with her brother. His lifeless body laid there sideways and before she knew it, it was too late. Looking for the right timing, the narrator decided to "extract his soul". He described the little boy's spirit as "soft and cold, like ice cream....

   The prologue consists of four chapters, but they are all short with only a few pages in each of them, which is why I decided to summarize them all in one blog post.    To start off with the first chapter, I noticed that there are subtitles, (centered in the middle of the page, with bold fonts, capital letters, and star-like looking shapes on both sides of them) and not just a little, but quite a lot. On the first page of the chapter, there were already two of them. These subtitles help to switch the scene or topic, which happens quite a lot throughout the prologue. I also noticed that the person talking (the narrator himself) has a strong connection with "colors". On the first line of the first chapter, it starts off by saying, "First, the colors. Then the humans." Later in the first chapter, we find the word "color" again. This time, it says "Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder; a scream will dribble down the ...