Death's Diary: 1942

-Death makes an interesting statement very early into this section. "You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue." -What does he mean by this statement?

Death's Diary: Cologne

-Death notes that after the bombings, he treats the souls of the dead like luggage, carrying them in one hand or tossing them over his shoulder; only the children he carried in his arms, -Why does he not give all souls the same respect, especially innocent civilians like these?

Death's Diary: The Parisians

-In this section, Death states that he knows no more of God than we do, that God answers his questions just as infrequently as he answers ours. -Do you find this at all odd? Why do you think this is?
-After a depressing two pages about the Jewisn souls dying in the gas chambers, Part Six ends on this note: "They were French, they were Jews, and they were you." -What does this mean to you? What parallels do you see between the desperation of the dying Jews and our own lives?

-Throughout all three of these "diary entries," Death brings up colors, just as he has in the past. In the first section, he says that "there are soft, coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts," in the second that "the sky was yellow, like burning newspaper," and in the third that the sky "turned from silver to gray to the color of rain." -Colors have been associated with death since the beginning of the novel. What significance to they have? Are they the actual colors of the sky at the time, or are they more metaphorical, representing something about the deaths themselves? Or are the both?

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