Frederick Werner Character Analysis

This realistic fiction novel, by Edward Bloor, describes the problems and relationships that Paul discovers when unlocking the meaning of truth, no matter the obstacles people put up to block him from it. The motif of “sight”, is what introduces Paul to the universal statement of truth and makes him aware of what the people surrounding him can and cannot “see”. Paul Fisher, the main character, uses the motif of sight to have a new understanding of his friends, family, and himself.

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

Werner’s view of the war was that it was real and it was his only way to get out of working in the mines, unlike all the other boys his age. On page 116, Werner is at a Nazi training camp in Schulpforta and he remembers what was said to him and Jutta back in Zollverein at the orphanage, “Exceptional. Unexpected. We will only take the purest, only the strongest. The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines” (116). Back in Zollverein, Werner never thought that it was possible for him to get out of going to the mines, but he made it to Schulpforta. Furthermore, Werner yells, “Heil Hitler!” (116). Werner screaming “Heil Hitler” shows that he is in support of Hitler and the war. On the other hand, Marie-Laure was in denial about the war. On page 97, Marie-Laure is hiding in a room from the bombings that are happening outside, “She smells smoke and knows. Fire. The glass has shattered out of her bedroom window, and what she hears is the sound of something burning beyond the shutters.... ‘Ce n’est pas la réalité’” (97). Even with all the commotion of the fire and the broken windows, Marie-Laure still tried to convince herself that everything that was happening wasn’t real. When she says, “‘Ce n’est pas la réalité’”, that translates into: it’s not reality. By Marie-Laure saying it’s not real, it goes to show how much in denial she is

When you think of a good life you definitely don’t think of Max Vandenburg. Max was a good Jewish man, he was just on a rough path. In his time staying with the Hubermanns, Max did change into a new person.

In the story “Not Human Beings”, by Etgar Keret, Shmulik Stein is portrayed as, “the bleeding heart” throughout much of the story. In the beginning of the story, Stein’s character seems to be petulant. When his commander Davidoff, is distracted by the Border Police Officer, taking him away from their game of backgammon, he makes a sarcastic threat about volunteering to go with the personnel officer if Davidoff doesn’t “shoot the fucking dice.” (752) Soon after Stein finds himself selected to spend a week with the Border Police. The first day he spends with them riding around in jeeps, one of the fellow officer’s in a nearby jeep purposely runs over an Arab that was walking down the road, Stein seems to be perplexed about the thoughtless act

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

Wiesel can neither justify nor comprehend the inhumane atrocity he endured during his enslavement, however discovers brutality becomes a way of life to outlive the Holocaust.

In “All the Light We Cannot See”, Anthony Doerr introduces the reader to many characters the two main being Werner and Marie-Laure. Each characters has their own personality, struggles, and perspective on the war. “He sees the interlaced ironwork of Zollverein, the fire breathing mills, men teeming out of elevator shafts like ants… Without hesitating Werner steps off the edge of the platform” (Doerr, 116). Werner came from an orphanage in a German coal mining city where he lost his father and would have the same destiny, working in the mines.Werner knew that his only way out of the mines was to become part of the Hitler Youth program, which he did due to his bravery after initially being suggested for his knowledge of technology.

Arthur Bauer was hanging out with his friend Erik Fisher. He knew that he would be unpopular if he did not obey Erik. Recently, Arthur even killed a man named Luiz Cruz. He always hated to carry out these evil plans, but he felt forced to do it to protect his status. The first thing that Erik got Arthur to do was to make fun of the death of his old friend, Mike Costello. “Ha! Do you remember the picture of his face! Priceless!” Erik laughed. “Pretty soon we’ll get to see the close up!”

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

who are important to them in the context of the story plot. Werner is a technologically gifted

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.

This short fiction focuses on the relationship between brothers, Lyman and Henry, along with a car that was shared between the two. From Lyman’s point of view, you see the two go on adventures together until Henry gets drafted into the army. While Henry is away, descriptions are vague and the only thing the reader learns is Lyman spent his time fixing up their red convertible. When Henry returns, the story picks up as Lyman observes how the war has changed his brother. In an attempt to get Henry’s original self back, he smashes the car. Once Henry returns the car to its original state, the story leads to tragedy as the reader experiences the death of both Henry and the vehicle. The changes of Henry’s personality and their adventures are portrayed