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What is the significance of the opening scene of 'the book thief'?

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In the opening scene, death is trying to gain the reader's trust by talking to him/her as if it were a human being. The reader becomes confused at the beginning and then starts to accept the fact that death is a natural occurrence.
Death is showing the reader that it was very busy during World War II.
By the end of this scene, death managed to introduce itself as a main character and a reliable narrator for the book.

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