The best answer for this question would be:
indirect characterization
indirect characterization means that the author revealed to the readers what the character is and how their personality is developed by showing it through speech, actions and the appearance, in the case of the excerpt it is the speech.
The phrase "was really looking forward to it", have a Merry Christmas!
I'd say this statement is false.
Not all of the brothers sought death - two of them didn't even realize Death was after them. Two of the brothers were killed by Death while trying to escape it. Only the youngest brother sought Death after he had lived a full life of happiness, and Death embraced him as an old friend.
Pandora opened a jar left in his care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils.
