All The Light We Cannot See Summary

Anthony Doerr proves the individual writing style in his characters development, symbols, and conflict in the novel “All The Light We Cannot See”. In his unique was he creates the characters who are believable and relatable to readers, yet unordinary, with the struggles and suffering a real person would do. This book brings an inscredible amount of feelings and inspiration for life to truly value the life and remember that the huge price was paid for the peace in which most of the today’s world

"I'm only trying to make sense of this war inside my head." This quote relates to the characters in All The Light We Cannot See because everyone is battling with love, truth, or identity while battling the war in Europe. Marie-Laure is living in Saint-Malo with her crazy great uncle while the war is raging on outside the city. Werner was accepted into the Hitler Youth School and was sent out into the war to track resistance radio signals. Sergeant von Rumpel is also on the search for the Sea of Flames diamonds, and what Marie-Laure doesn't know about her father can greatly hurt her. In this novel, three of the characters are searching for either truth, love, or identity.

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

Werner, a German orphan lived a much different life. Before being accepted into a German Nazi school, Werner

In early scenes of the book, it described the childhood life for Marie-Laure (main character) and Werner (main character). Werner and his sister, Jutta, spent most of their childhood listening to a broadcast of French scientists on the radio. As time passed, Werner excelled in math and was forced to work for the Nazi Party in tracking transmission waves in order to find anyone who had illegal radios (172). During one of his missions in Saint-Malo, he found Marie-Laure’s broadcasts of her reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Werner listened to Marie-Laure’s broadcasts every night for comfort and while listening one night, Werner noticed that, “She stop[ped] reading abruptly and the static roars. When she speaks again, her voice has become an urgent hiss: He is here. He is right below me” (393). This was very unusual for Marie-Laure’s broadcast to stop so suddenly

The novel All The Light We Cannot See, was written by Anthony Doerr. The novel was set during World War Two era and features two parallel stories with characters from opposite points of view. Doers tells the story of how both characters grow up through adversity and how they overcome their personal struggles. Marie-Laure is one of the main characters. She goes blind and has to learn how to navigate life alone after he father leaves her in the care of her Uncle Etienne. Werner, the second main character, overcame being an orphan and makes a life decision based upon his worst fear. Both characters, though living separate but parallel lives, share similar life experiences that are connected with numerous symbolic objects. Throughout the novel Doerr uses symbolic objects to create a connection for the reader between Werner and Marie-Laure. Doerr’s use of this method to bridge the characters together is done so with the use of several items such as the radio, shells and mollusks, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the Sea of Flames.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is a work of historical fiction that follows

In All the Light We Cannot See, the picture of the world is clouded by the brutality and effects of World War 2. Both characters possess a certain weakness that makes them vulnerable to the effects of others. While Werner was under the strict teachings of a Nazi training camp, Marie lost her eyesight when she was six years old. These weaknesses create a pathway for others around them to influence their thinking and

Werner suddenly hears Marie-Laure’s voice in the radio. She stops reading and whispers, “he is here. He is right below me”. Werner feels helpless, he wants to rescue her but can’t. Theme:

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.

Marie-Laure Leblanc, a blind girl whom had to flee from Paris with her father, quickly learned how to adapt to a new town and eventually led to experience the war alone as a young blind girl. Marie-Laure’s story ends up corresponding to Werner Pfennig, a young orphan boy from Germany, whom has a huge fascination for radios. During the war Werner is in charge of pinpointing and destroying opposing German radio broadcasts. Towards the end of the novel the two characters ended up meeting one another through one of the radio broadcasts and despite of all of the challenges throughout the novel they were finally able to see the good in one another.

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, should be made a required reading book for multiple reasons. Often times required reads focus on the old classics such as Twain, Shakespeare, and Dickens, while these books are chosen for good reason- they are timeless works of art- students often overlook great books written today. When every book you are required to read, either good or bad, is at least one hundred years old, students often forget that new great books are being written every year. In All the Light We Cannot See, while the setting takes place over 70 years ago during World War II Doerr finished the novel in 2014. The novel intertwines two very different point of views before, during, and after the second world war: one a blind

The excerpt from All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr tells the story of a little girl who is blind. Doerr’s story is all about how this little blind girl, Marie-Laure. While the plot is the fact that the girl is blind and how she lives her life, the central idea is the fact that blind people can “see” just not the same as everyone else. Marie-Laure has the unique ability to “see” the world in her own special way. She describes the many places in the museum by the way they smell. The fact that she can recognize that “paleontology smells like rock dust” and how all the other places smell is her little way of getting around and “seeing” where she is (Line 4).

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?” Anthony Doerr’s book, All the Light We Cannot See, is based in Saint-Malo during World War I. When Marie and Werner unexpectedly cross paths, they must work together to stop the stealing of a precious jewel, the Sea of Flames.

Werner Pfennig is an intelligent, young boy who grew up in a mining village with his sister Jutta, and it was here that his love for engineering was born. His talent for engineering along with his unusually blond hair and blue eyes would eventually earn him a spot at the front lines in Russia where he reconnects with Volkheimer, a former friend from school. While working in the army, Werner uses his skills as an engineer to help Volkheimer and several other soldiers murder hundreds of people by finding the broadcasting locations of illegal radio transmissions. However, when a fever causes Werner to make mistake with his transceiver that results in the deaths of a young girl and her mother he forced to contemplate his life decisions, and he