Post 3 Figurative language/literary element

In the book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the author uses figurative language to set the mood in the book. I have noticed that the author does not use very many similes, or it seems that way to me. Although he uses a lot of personification in form as death as the narrator. Death is always narrating and therefore personification is used a lot. For example death was talking about Hans Hubermann and says "he escaped me twice, which few have been lucky to do." Because something inanimate cannot catch something you cannot escape for it, also Death talks like he is a person even though he is not a person. So that is how personification is used a lot in the book. This effects the mood greatly because death is always present and you can tell that he knows the ending like he is retelling a story, and he is frightenly indifferent to what happens in the end.  This makes the mood dark and dismal which also fits because they are in the middle of Nazi Germany in war. What also adds to the dismal and grey atmosphere is how there is not a whole lot of description in the book. There is description but there is not much in the book, but it is very inventive and new to have death as the narrator of the book, I have never read a book that has him as a narrator.