All The Light We Cannot See Summary

Throughout the world, an undeniable, yet perpetual force is responsible for tearing nearly everyone apart: hopelessness. Often caused by instability or vulnerability, hopelessness plagues those who refrain from combating its vile side effects. Hopelessness loves company, producing an inseparable bond between itself and self-doubt. During wartime events, it’s imperative to display some form of resistance towards the crippling despair. Although on the surface hopelessness seems insurmountable, it can be fought. In All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr emphasizes how the vital tool of resilience can be used to conquer hopelessness in all situations.

Once Werner and his crew had arrived in Saint Malo, he intercepted one of Etienne’s broadcasts of coordinates and announcements. Immediately, he recognized “the tenor of the voice matching in every respect the broadcasts of the Frenchmen” which brought memories of his childhood with Jutta. At the end of the broadcast, Werner heard Clair de Lune, a song by Debussy, and was entranced like he was again a little boy discovering the mechanisms of radios for the first time. He made the decision to not turn these broadcasters in, thus sparing the Frenchman named Etienne and Marie-Laure who was the niece of the Frenchman. After killing many innocent people, Werner spared many lives by this action, and in a sense, this worked to rectify his wrongdoings. While trapped under the Hotel of Bees, Werner had only a broken radio and the remaining members of his crew, took time to reflect upon his actions since his departure from home. He was haunted by many of his actions and felt he did not deserve redemption. Even in recognizing the wrongs he had committed, Werner was able to redeem himself; he acknowledged what the war had done to him and his deplorable actions. Werner fixed the broken radio and was able to intercept the transmissions of Marie-Laure reading from Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea while Rupert von Rumpel, a dangerous German private, was rummaging throughout her house. While listening one night, he heard her say that “[von Rumpel] is here. He is right below [her] (393)”; after hearing Marie-Laure, Werner makes the decision to save her. After Werner rescued Marie-Laure, the two go their separated ways and Werner is captured. Even though Werner did not experience a physical reward, his actions of saving both Etienne and Marie-Laure worked to rectify the wrongs he has

“Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.” - Eric Burdon. The theme of good versus evil can be applied to almost every novel but in different aspects. In the novel, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, plays a good and evil side at the same time. This book is in the time period of WWII in Paris, France following a blind girl and an intellectual boy. The girl, Marie-Laure, is our good side of the story, for instance, always wanting to help her father with what she can, listening and knowing what the right thing to do is, and taking action when needed, adding to her blindness to not let that stop her. The German boy we follow, Werner, he is wanting to help others as well, but not for the right reasons, he lets the evil, in this case, the Nazis, take control of him and use him for his brain.

I chose All the Light We Cannot See because I’m really interested in reading,or learning,anything about World War II, so it was a perfect pick for me since the book was based around the World War II time period. I must admit, the book was extremely long and I did have a hard time forcing myself to pick up the book and continue reading it. It felt like it would never end. Fortunately, the author’s writing style was really descriptive and you can easily see whatever the character saw, or heard whatever the characters heard. The fact that I could easily see the cities Anthony Doerr described,or hear the oceans he made the characters hear, really helped me continue reading the book until I finished it.

He develops a passion for fixing and building radios, which allows to him to work at the Hitler Youth. While he is there he becomes friends with an interesting boy named Frederick, who loves birds. Werner learns many important lessons from Frederick. Later, he works on a special assignment to track the resistance, which Marie Laure and Etienne start after Madame Manec dies of pneumonia. When the Allies started dropping bombs in Saint Malo, Werner gets trapped in the basement of a hotel with his team, while Marie-Laure takes shelter in Etienne’s cellar. After the bombing stops, Marie-Laure comes out to drink some water, but immediately goes back and hides in the attic, when she hears Von Rumpel come inside the house to look for the Sea of Flames. After staying in the attic for many days, she starts to broadcast from the radio and and says, “he’s here.” Werner hears her broadcast and realizes that she is in trouble and that he needs to save her. After he escapes from the basement, he finds Marie-Laure’s house, kills Von Rumpel, and helps Marie-Laure to safety. After they part their ways, Werner gets arrested by the Allies and gets very sick. While he is sick, he walks out onto a minefield, and dies from an explosion. Many years after the war, Marie-Laure walks to the park with her grandson and reflects on her life and

The radio was a major symbol throughout the novel. It played a large role in Werner and Marie-Laure’s lives. It was because of the radio that brought the two together. The radio symbolizes the connection that it give to the people of the world. In All the Lights We Cannot See, radios were illegal. They were illegal because it gave people the ability to communicate with allies in hopes of rebelling against the Nazis. The people saw this as a chance to

All the light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, chronicles the lives and relationship between Marie and Werner, two children who grew up in France and Germany. The society around them forces discriminatory ideals that cloud their perception of the world, but they find its meaning through their own self-definition. In this, they are both guided by a single radio and the message and legacy that it contains. Throughout the book, the author isolated the two characters, but also created subtle connections between the two. The most important of which would be the radio. It created a bond between the two where they learned from each other’s experiences and struggles. All the Light We Cannot See recreates a new picture of the world by contrasting the two separate journeys taken by Marie- Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig to gain that image, which is guided by the power of a radio and the message it contains, ultimately leading to the meeting of the two characters that officially forms an image of the world where one’s actions are valued more than one’s physical features.

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.

In the exceptional novel All the Light We Cannot See, author Anthony Doerr, tells the story of two young adults whom had to experience life during World War II.

The book All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr takes place during the Holocaust in World War II. Marie-Laure LeBlanc and her father Daniel live in Paris where he is a locksmith who keeps track of thousands of keys for the National Museum of Natural History. Marie-Laure suddenly loses her sight at the age of six and her father builds her a wooden replica of her town so she can navigate confidently. As war was slowly coming to a start the museum curators packed up all the valuables and move them to safety. A precious stone called the Sea of Flames was one that was never on display by is said to have the power to keep its owner safe while bringing ruin and death to all around them. In the countryside of Zollverein, Germany Werner

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 book I am reading is "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, and I must say,I truly do like this book as of now. I am impressed by how descripive the author is in this book, providing enough detail to create a clear image in my mind while reading. Introduction of characters was really smooth, and the engaging side stories in the book provide interesting information that you probably wouldn't find elsewhere.

The historical fiction novel All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr takes place in France during World War II. Throughout the story, the point of view switches between two characters who tell the stories from their perspective. Marie-Laure LeBlanc, who is a blind 16-year-old because of cataracts at a young age, is the daughter of a Paris museum locksmith. When the war started, and as France got invaded, her and her father flee to the countryside to their great uncle’s house. The boy, Werner Pfennig is gifted with knowledge about mechanics and radio.

The repeating image of the radios symbolizes the general population's fearlessness in a miserable circumstance by connecting Marie-Laure and Werner together, Werner being a German fighter, Marie-Laure being a French resident. For a large portion of the novel, the radio fills in as the connection between our two heroes, Marie-Laure and Werner. Since Werner was a kid, technology had intrigued him. He longed for turning into an architect one day, and had an energy for comprehension, building, and fixing technology. In that capacity, a focal piece of his life was the radio.

For instance, my belief, that you grow stronger from the hardships you conquer, encouraged me to concur that strength is your light guiding you through hardships, and grows after surpassing them. Pegrem’s use of consonance of the short ‘t’ sound in “faint light”, conveys how strength begins small. “Faint”, connoting “minimal”, “vague” and “weak”, successfully positions readers to imagine something imperceptible and weak, conveying how you commence that way. Furthermore, “light”, connoting “powerful”, “beaming” and “unstoppable”, conveys that strength will begin as a “faint light”, due to the absence of challenges experienced. However, once surpassing challenges, the “light” represents the growing strength of an individual. My own outlook on