All The Light We Can Not See By Anthony Doerr

In Robert Cormier’s novel, We All Fall Down, is a young-adult thriller that explores the evil side of humanity through a number of corrupt characters. Cormier, to a large extent, accurately depicts manipulative and dishonest behaviour whilst also showing the evil lurking within the prominent characters of Harry Flowers, Buddy Walker and Mickey Stallings who showcase the dark side of humanity. Cormier explores this through Harry Flower’s manipulative actions that result in the suffering of others. Additionally, the constant dishonest behaviour is shown predominantly through the main protagonist of Buddy Walker, who deceives the one he loves. Cormier continues to depict the evil lurking in society through the theme of appearance

To begin with, the author of this autobiography would explain every person’s eyes in great depth, which made it easier to explore how the Holocaust changed numerous people. It is known that sometimes eyes express the feelings that humans may feel incapable of expressing for themselves, which is something Elie Wiesel clearly understood. Right at the beginning of the novel we are introduced to the character Moché the Beadle, who was an extremely joyful person. His eyes were described as being “dreamy” expressing the curiosity and happiness that filled this man’s heart. This continued until one day in which he began telling stories about dreaded thing happening to the people of the Jewish religion. No one believed him, not even Elie, and he was

The radio that is presented from the book “All the Light We Cannot See” is a metaphor for the hope and the many untold stories in World War II. The characters Marie-Laure and Werner were trapped in a seemingly hopeless situation during the German occupation in Normandy during World War II. The radio that was found, and restored, by Werner gave them a sense of hope when they would listen to stories and lessons from voices around the world. Although the children could not do anything about the war that was raging outside and their possible inevitable fate, the radio gave them a brief mental break from their troubles. The radio is important in the story because the radio admits soundwaves that we cannot see in the same way we cannot see light.

Most people depend on their sight to guide their path, but what if they lose their sense of sight? What would they do? Emily Dickinson’s vision grew poorer and poorer as she aged due to writing poems in the dim light of the night. She wrote two poems related to sight, but there was a much deeper meaning to the both of them. Sometimes people with the ability of sight are blinded as to someone who is blind can see clearly. People can not always depend on their eyes to lead their path in life.They have to open their soul to lead the way.

Author of Memory Wall and About Grace, Anthony Doerr in his novel All the Light We Cannot See suggests that the less fortunate Germans during the 1940’s had little access to radio entertainment. He develops this claim by first explaining the intrigued looks on the children’s faces when Werner brings in the radio he had found buried in the dirt, then stating the radio’s condition being broken and non operating, then finally illustrating the distinct shift in the air as Werner got the radio to play even the smallest of sounds- specifically music. Doerr’s purpose is to describe the lifestyle of Germans during Hitler’s reign in order to give the readers a better understanding of the time period in which All the Light We Cannot See is written about.

The central idea of In All the Light We cannot See, written by Anthony Doerr, is that blind people are able to see their world in a different manner than people who are able to see. Those who are blind accomplish this by experiencing what others normally see through other senses that have remained intact. One instance where Doerr develops this idea is in lines 3-6, “Botany smells like formalin and old fruit; it is loaded with heavy cool jars in which float things she has only had described for her : the pale coiled ropes of rattlesnakes, the severe hands of guerrillas.” By using the words” things she has only had described for her” Doerr's is trying to convey the idea that blind individuals utilize their working senses to perceive the world

Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See, is a beautifully written story capturing the lives of two ordinary children growing up in the midst of World War II. Doerr’s novel is told by a young French girl, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, living with her father, a master museum locksmith, in Paris. By the time Marie-Laure is 6 years old, she is fully blind. To help her learn to navigate around the city, her father creates a miniature version of Paris. He carves intricate houses so her fingers can trace along the streets.

Throughout the crucial years of World War Two, many individuals had sacrificed themselves to liberate their countries from Germany’s dictatorship. It may have seemed impossible since Adolf Hitler wanted to dominate, not just Europe, but The United States and other foreign countries. Hitler wanted to create a “perfect” race of Germany with impeccable, obedient soldiers, exceptional mothers, and resilient children. “All the Lights We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr illustrates an orphan boy from Germany, Werner Pfennig, and a blind French girl, Marie-Laure LeBlanc. The adolescents struggle through the Nazi era together in different situations, which both teenagers eventually come across each other to understand their circumstances. Despite the actions Werner has done with the Nazis, he is a considerable, sympathetic young man who cares for others.

Ambrose Bierce was known as the “mist of light”. His stories were usually centered on civil war. It was usually a horror or supernatural story, but it could be a comic or tall-tale as well. Bierce’s “Chickamauga” is nothing short of a horror story. This story is known as one of the most powerful anti-war stories, and fits in with the literary criticism New Historicism. It is about a young boy around the age of 6 years, whose father had fought in the Civil War. We later find out that the young boy is deaf and mute. This, and him being only 6 years of age, causes him to be naïve about the things he sees in the forest one day when he gets lost.

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr provides an interesting look on World War II from the view of two young children, one a French girl, and the other a German boy. The book is split into five main sections, with occasion jumps ahead in the timeline to build suspense when the story jumps back to chronological order. The book is split into five sections, all different times during the war. Marie-Laure and her father are forced to evacuate Paris with a valuable diamond called the Sea of Flames after the Nazis invade France. They escape to her great-uncle Etienne’s house in Saint-Malo, where her father is arrested after trying to return to Paris.

“I have been in a place for six incredible years, where winning meant a crust of bread and to live another day. Since the blessed day of my liberation I have asked the question, why am I here?” (Gerda Weissmann Klein). Life has never been easy, especially for Gerda Weissmann, former victim of the cruelty and terror beyond the barbed wire fences of the camps. Always shifting from camp to camp, Gerda Weissmann was a young Jewish lady who was forced to go through a heartbreaking and horrific experience at the concentration camps. The novel, All But My Life, by Gerda Weissmann Klein, is an autobiography that narrates her life in the German labor camps. The years she spent in the hands of the cruelty of the Nazis, did not enfeeble her, instead

All the Light We Cannot See, is a novel written by Anthony Doerr. The story revolves around a German boy and a French girl whose paths cross after trying to survive the disasters of World War II. Marie-Laure, at age six, goes blind and her dad began to use town models to teach her how to navigate. During the German occupation, Marie and her father fled to Saint-Malo to her great uncles to wait for the war to pass. Across Europe, two orphans in Germany, Werner and his sister Jutta find themselves in love with radios. Werner quickly mastered fixing and building radios, soon his talent was recognized and was sent to a German military academy named Schulpforta. They turn Werner into a highly-trained resistance radio tracker and he was sent into

“The Sky Inside” by Clare B. Dunkle is a slightly future dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. People were starving, sick, and dying; so the government decided to have them compete for a better life. They staged game shows that would enable the winners to be moved into a completely safe, structured, dome, where they would never fear disease or war again. The losers, however, found a much different fate in starvation. Fast forward a few decades, and the grandchildren of the original inhabitants are prospering inside the dome, except for those who aren’t. The so called “Wonder Babies” a new model of genetically modified super-genius babies, are being tormented. The adults are fed up with the constant nagging of questions, the children are aggravated that this group of toddlers is smarter than them, and the wonder babies are unsatisfied with the education that they are receiving inside the suburb. No one is happy. Out of the blue, a man shows up and offers a solution to everyone’s problems, he offers to take away the wonder babies. Everyone is onboard, besides Martin. He does not want his sister to be taken away and can’t trust that the “school” she is being taken to is safe or even a real thing. As Martin begins to search for his sister, Cassie, he starts to discover secrets about the suburb that he has been contained inside of his entire life. Martin makes the decision that he has had enough and chooses to escape the suburb and find Cassie. He travels on foot for

Tragedy is a horrific event that causes suffering, destruction, and distress. Was tragedy a necessity in the awful endings of World War II? (Weinberg, 1999). In Anthony Doerr’s dramatic story All The Light We Cannot See, numerous themes were portrayed throughout the novel. The four most apparent themes were tragedy, hope, family and destiny. Although the book does not dwell on the war itself, it illustrates just how war affected the lives of two young individuals from two different countries,Marie-Laure of France and Werner of Germany. Doerr shows just how the war brought them together and how the war tore them apart. In the novel, the author shows how people were forced to decide between the Nazis and the Allies.  In All The Light We Cannot See,  tragedy of the Germans and the characters involved in the story is shown before, during, and after World War II.

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, is a book about a blind French girl, Marie-Laure, and a German boy, Werner Pfennig, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Anthony Doerr, an award winning author, does a great job bringing these 2 perspectives into play but still keeping some of the overarching themes the same, making All The Light We Cannot See such a beautifully written book.