This quote is relevant as death associates moments with color, and in this instance death uses colour to portray an entire race of people which is relevant to modern racism in todays society, and how colour is relative to life and death in historical periods like Nazi Germany. ... This quote is also ironic, as in one half it explains how summer was going nicely for Liesel the German child with her childhood progressing colourfully, when in contrast the colors are symbolic of all the deaths occurring and loss Germany is encountering. ... Zusak used written texts to symbolise the power of words....

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His arrogant departing smile and rhetorical quote but for the grace of god' signifies his keenness to leave. ... In the beginning quotes such as master of life and death and my new prize' indicate the Childs immortal persona once the child kills the owl quotes such as I watched afraid' and I saw those eyes mirror my cruelty' mirrors the sorrow and regret the child begins to endure imagery has also been implement for example owl hops' and hobbled in blood' reflect the cruel act that transforms the child. ... The use of the oxymoron ancient innocence&#x...

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Although symbols are simple manifestations of the human mind each have many layers of meaning, and are frequently overlooked in terms of their power to provide us with intuition, healing, substance and significance on a daily basis. ... The power given to these elements where essential to their lives. ... Aside from the importance of consciousness, Moore also suggests the importance of the unconscious that takes place in dreams, and gives acknowledgement to Freud's famous quote dreams are, "the royal road to the soul." ... The sacred arts of life provides us with insights into the bloom o...

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Another instance of this fallacy can be found on page 125 when they quote the United States Declaration of Independence; "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights that among these rights are life....that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men." ... They offer the following two premises to justify that claim, that being "the system of legal and political rights guards the individual "from the abuses of arbitrary power, by both the state and other individuals" ...

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