How does the use if personification shape the reader’s reactions to Death?

The character of Death is a personification of certain human traits that remain objective. Zusak needed Death to be accessible by readers, and yet, he needed it to be set apart at the same time. He uses Death as a curious "otherworld", an entity that is at times childlike with curiosity. Death is both enchanted with human nature and disillusioned with it at the same time. Zusak picks very neutral emotions and plays with them through his narrator.