It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died.

Markus Zusak
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In this quote, the speaker is talking about a scene of a train ride. Next to the train line, footprints had sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died.

In the winter, the cold can be so icy that it makes you think there have been deaths. There are so many ways this could be interpreted. In the winter, people might have died from something like a heart attack or some other sudden illness.

They might have died while shoveling snow or shoveling some other difficult task that was too much for them to handle. They might have died while working on some project that was too dangerous and they had to give up halfway through. All of these things could happen in a winter where temperatures drop below freezing and remain there for months at a time.

Source: The Book Thief

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