Essay On All The Light We Cannot See

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.

First, Werner had an atypical childhood. Werner lived at an orphanage called Children’s House in Zollverien, a mining town, with

Have you ever thought about what it would be like not to be free? What would it be like not to be able to make choices? What would it be like not to be able to do what you want? It's scary to think about not being free, but even in the world today some people don't even have basic human freedoms. Lois Lowry shows us in her books The Giver and Gathering Blue what it would be like not to have freedom and how important it is that we have it.

Freedom and Liberty are explained in many ways and in “Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson it is explained in the American Revolution by different types of people like Patriots, the rebels that are fighting against the king to become independent, the Loyalists that want to stay with the king of Great Britain, and the slaves. The slaves are working for both Patriots and Loyalists and they chose different sides but still have their own opinion like Isabel who is more on the Patriots side but still has here opinion on freedom. They all have their own interpretation of the words, “Freedom and Liberty” but they're all different. In the book Isabel is a slave with her sister Ruth, and is with a kind woman until she dies then she is sold to the

Werner likes to please people, but not the right people. Werner builds radios for the Nazis, and they praise him for it, for instance, “Werner sets up the first transceiver, uses measuring tape to pace off two hundred meters, and sets up a second. He uncoils the grounding wires, raises the aerials, and switches them on. Already his fingers are numb… Werner puts on the headset and fills his ears with static…. “I have him sir.” Hauptmann starts smiling in ernest. The dogs caper and sneeze with excitement.” (Doerr 244-245). By the reaction that Werner’s

Werner and Marie-Laure are similar in that they both start on a path that provides comfort and security. Marie-Laure, despite her recent onset of blindness, has her father to care and nurture her. During chaos and eruption of war, Marie-Laure does not need to make any executive decisions because they’re made for her by her father. Her sense of security and comfort come in the form of Monsieur LeBlanc, and up until his absence, she did not need to rely solely on herself. Werner felt that same comfort and security when he was awarded the chance to attend Schulpforta. He knew that when he pursued his ambitions in a higher education that it would be in place that provides for his

The novel, All the Light We Cannot See, takes a stance on challenging questions about free will, fate and making the right choices. The main characters, throughout the novel juggle to do what is moral, but they must also face the fact that their tribulations will not amount to anything. Werner and Marie-Laure’s conscientious choices ultimately do not matter at all. The inquiry of free will in the novel is represented by the Sea of Flames, a diamond that has been prophesied to protect the keeper of the stone, but continues to cause the keeper’s loved ones to suffer and eventually die. “It is cut, polished; for a breath, it passes between the hands of men.

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

Throughout the book, All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, there were many symbols that were present. One symbol that stood out to me the most in the book was the radio. This symbol stood out the most because of how the characters manipulated it throughout the story.

Freedom is something that all people have, to believe in what they want, follow who they want, and say what they want. But, long ago this was not allowed to people. In Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, you have Isabel and her life as a slave being in a world of 3 sides, the Patriots, the Loyalists and the slaves. She does not know what side she is on for they all have the pro’s and con’s, however she is a slave and her options sometimes get changed for both offers to each side can sometimes not do so well. First, Isabel says, “I was chained between two nations.”

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.

Freedom is defined as being at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint; furthermore, to be released from an external force or control (dictionary). “Harrison Bergeron” is a short story that is in a society where the government is trying to make everyone equal, using handicaps to decrease certain individuals traits or qualities that are above average. In the novella Anthem, the people and society went back to the past when they are far into the future. The people are living in caves and have seemed to have lost or forgotten what people before them have discovered and believed. “Harrison Bergeron” and Anthem are very different but also have many similarities, especially referring to family and education.

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

Myths, legends, and stories of invincibility all have one thing in common: there is a slight bit of truth to all of them. No matter how far-fetched a story might sound, at one point, some part of it was most likely true. In All the Light We Cannot See, a fictional book by Anthony Doerr based around the time period of World War II, the reader follows the story of a blind girl, Marie-Laure, who carries with her The Sea of Flames, a priceless diamond with a legend behind it. The diamond is described as “a brilliant blue, the blue of tropical seas, but it has a touch of red at its center, like the flames inside a drop of water” (Doerr 20). It is said that the raw stone was found in a dry riverbed by a prince, who was attacked on his voyage home

“That’s what I’m listening to, Werner. Our planes are bombing Paris.” An orphan named Werner watches as his younger sister listens to the Deutschlandsender. Werner Pfennig and his younger sister Jutta live in the coal mining town of Zollverein, with Frau Elena and other orphans at the Children’s Home. He finds a broken shortwave radio behind the Children’s Home and repairs it, realizing his interest and knack in technology, he begins to read and study mathematics and science. He is picked up by Lance Corporal Rudolf Siedler, where he is recommended to apply for National Political Institutes of Education, one of the finest schools in Nazi Germany. He is accepted and prepares to leave the Children’s Home for his new school, much to Jutta’s dismay.