All The Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr

Marie-Laure gets out of the attic for water, and found a Braille copy of a book. She decides to broadcast herself reading the book. Hoping that someone, maybe Etienne will hear her. Werner continues scanning the radio. Wistfully, he and Volkheimer discuss how eager they once where to leave their home, only to be disappointed.

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.

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My first impression of All the Light We Cannot See is that it’s interesting that Werner and Marie-Laure have certain perspectives or traits that they have developed based on their situations. To start off, Werner and Marie have many  differences. One major difference is their perspective on the Nazis. At first Werner fears and dislikes the Nazis, but when he is given the opportunity to become one instead of a coal worker, he puts his old feelings aside and works hard and strives to become one. On the other hand, Marie lives in France, which is being invaded by the Nazis.

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.

In the book "All the light we cannot see" By: Anthony Doerr tells the story of a young girl named Marie and her struggles of being blind yet also tells the story of a young boy named Werner and his struggles of being fored into work in a coal mine. As a young reader I would say that this book is very engaging and interesting. Although the book starts out slightly confussing as soon as you understand what is going on it is easy to follow. Marie and her father have to quest from thier hometown in Paris where Marie has lived her whole life to delvier this precios diamond to a musseum. This is the part of the story where I got realy engaged and was eaver to read more. As all of this is happening Werner is tring to find out how he can get out of

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

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.

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.

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

In the book “Unbearable lightness: a story of loss and gain”, author Portia De Rossi takes her audience through her life explaining how she dealt with Anorexia and Bulimia while trying to achieve her dreams in the public eye. She takes you into her mind and lets you know her thoughts and goals. She shares what herself and thousands of other people struggle through everyday. She explains how her constant need for perfection almost ruined her life.

In case of Werner radio give him a hope for a better future, for a freedom from poverty. Encouraged by those talks he wants to become a scientist when he gets older “He imagine himself as a tall white-coated engineer striding into laboratory: cauldrons steam, machinery rumbles, complex charts paper the walls”. Étienne LeBlanc, as the reader finds out later, is the one who broadcasts it, he broadcasts his brother’s, who also is Marie-Laure’s grandfather, old records, in the memory of the one who died in the World War I(172). For Etienne it the only escape from the deep depression caused by the loss, while broadcasting he frees from the prison within himself. Readers can also notice the importance of radio in Marie-Laure’s life, moreover the credits for saving her life can be given to radio.

“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.

For example, as Werner is alone in the grand washroom of the Hotel of Bees, he justifies how he tells his commanding officer that he never heard any terrorist radio transmissions when he really did as he thinks, “At least he protected the secrets of her house. At least he kept her safe” (Doerr 437). Werner directly disobeys an order straight from a garrison commander to locate and eliminate the terrorists sending Ally transmissions over the radio and lies about doing so to preserve the life and safety of the broadcaster. He risks his own life and freedom, the lives of other German soldiers, and the lives of potential casualties by defying this command all so he can do what he believes is right. Parallel to Werner’s action, while Kent is outside of Regan’s home, he demands to fight Oswald to defend Lear’s honour by declaring, “Draw, you rascal.

Authors have always written books to share stories from different perspectives, especially through history. Many authors have written books in which a story’s setting is in a real place during a significant time in history, a genre known as historical fiction. All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr is a beautiful story about a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives are connected in the past, present, and future. It is a historical fiction about fate, duty, and free will during the devastation of World War II.