• -Lies- deliberate, mis-direction
• Narrator, Death: or Whom?
• Molching
• Symbol – Book
• Foreshadowing, Flashbacks
• Dramatic Irony

Why do this?

To challenge our pre conceptions.

• Role of German citizens in WW2
• Removed our comfortable assumption that we would never do what Germany did
• Personification of death – Makes us identify with it; normalising it. Reinforces extreme nature human behaviour

The main idea of the book is THE POWER OF WORDS!