Literary Techniques

The main literary technique Zusak uses is the personification of death. Death becomes a person as he is narrating the story. I like the idea of what Zusak is trying to do, but I think he could have done it in a way that would have been more effective. The way Zusak uses death as the narrator I dont think we gain much from it, since he really is only sitting back and telling a story. I do like the use of death at the begining though, when the brother is dying. I think that is the only time in which death is an interesting narrator.