Quote 1: “- and the last scrawl from above formed what, to me, appeared an odd, yet familiar, shape. A signature.”
Quote 2: ” They fall on top of each other. The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto thick soupy red.
When I read these pages of the book thief, Quote 1 and Quote 2 seemed to related to each other. I found this interesting because it was identified as a signature rather than the nazi symbol. I think the narrator, who we think is death doesn’t know who the Nazi’s are yet, however, there are still hints of war brewing and fighter planes.
The first lines of each part of the prologue also include the colours red black and white.
“First up is something white. Of the blinding kind.”
“Next is a signature black, to show the poles of my versatility, if you like.”
“The last time I saw her was red.”
Thousands of years ago, the swastika was seen as a symbol of good fortune and luck and well being. It became ingrained as part of the Nazi symbolism by hitler.
Maybe the fact that it used to mean good fortune has something to do with death.