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Which inference can be best made from this text in the passage from The Book Thief? “I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.”

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Answer:

Distraction as a way of survival

Explanation:

The narrator speaks about how difficult is to keep on living watching all the survivors around her. Because she's seen death, but what strikes her completely is the living, so she says her "one saving grace is distraction", so she focuses on colors, and other details so as not to think about the destruction that suffocates her.

Answer:

Inference of suffering can be made best from the given text.

Explanation:

‘The Book Thief’ by ‘Markus Zusak’ is spy thriller. However, it is a story of a ten-year-old girl who steals books, though she cannot read. It is a heartbreaking story at times and creative as well.

In the given passage, it makes a point of view when a loved one dies. It says living with the loss of a loved one is much worse than dying. Liesel’s brother, Werner dies in the train out of cold, hunger and he couldn’t be treated medically as well.