All The Light We Cannot See Quotes

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.

As I read The Dark Is Rising the theme family became evident as I started to read part 1 of the book. In the book it stated “ What? said Will. ‘Too many kids in this family, that's what. Just too many.” part 1 page 1.

The Lighting Thief by Rick Riordan is a story about Percy Jackson finds out that he is Poseidon son and is half-blood and is also getting accused of something he didn’t do.“Sobeknefru” is about being the first female pharaoh. Ancient culture continue to shape our world.These stories from Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt prove that anyone can be whatever they want to be.

As Night comes in, nothing can be perceived for what they evidently are. The sense of “sight” is obstructed; it creates a different understanding of such tragedies for an individual. The conscience is clouded, for the darkness—Night, conceals the grief, afflictions, and senseless massacres. Even those who are targeted are left unseeing. When Wiesel and the others were transferred to a smaller ghetto, “No one was praying for the night to pass quickly…[The Jews] condemned to the same fate—still unknown” (21). The people prayed, but didn’t know what they were praying about. The Jews in Sighet has lived in oblivion till one year before the war ends, when millions had already perished. The community isn’t enlightened about the circumstances in neighboring areas. In a sense, they too, had their backs turned to the deaths that occurred. Wiesel feels that Night has left humanity with the absence of clarity, the darkness of it has robbed them of their best sense. The world has been kept in the dark, for they let this happen for several years before finally stepping in. Night is a heavy black curtain that obscures; it devoids the world of moments where light does not shed upon life (with light being depicted often as knowledge). Night condones more tragedies than

Direct Quote: “‘For the Arkenstone of my father,’ he said, ‘is worth more than a river of gold in itself, and to me it is beyond price. That stone of all the treasure I name unto myself, and I will be avenged on anyone who finds it and withholds it.’” (p.244)

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 focus on the radio also has a mythic quality that expands our understanding of WWII. According to Doerr, his title ”All the Light we Cannot See” was inspired by the idea of modern communications carrying messages and information through the air by way of invisible

This is an essay on All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony der. Each character in the story is effected by World War II and changed by their experiences. The characters encounter various events that change them while they try to survive world war two. The book starts off in a French city named Saint Malo during a bombardment by American forces trying to flush out Nazi soldiers encamped in the city. While this is happening, a French girl named Marie-Laur takes a huge diamond out of a model house, and a German boy named Werner rushes to a cellar under a hotel listening to Austrian solders sing as they fire a load and massive anti air gun from the roof of the hotel.

In the words of Otto Von Bismarck, “Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” Many of the preceding war novels to All Quiet on the Western Front, misrepresented or overlooked the anguish of war, in favor of more resplendent ideals such as glory, honor, or nationalism. The predominant issue of All Quiet on the Western Front is the terrible atrocities of war. The reality that is portrayed in the novel is that there was no glory or honor in this war, only a fierce barbarity that actually transformed the nature of human existence into irreparable, endless affliction, destroying the soldiers long before their deaths.

In the passage in Heart of Darkness on page 84, Marlow is describing his first encounter with the famous Mr. Kurtz. Unsurprisingly, Kurtz is sick and almost decaying. But even though he is practically a corpse, he still withholds a lot of power. In the passage, the Russian boy warns Marlow that Kurtz has the power to tell the natives to attack. Even though Kurtz can’t physically do anything to harm them himself, his voice holds enough power to determine whether they live or die.

“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.

The book All the Light We Cannot See takes place in Europe, in three main locations: Hitler’s Germany, Paris, and the walled city of Saint Malo, Brittany from the mid 1930s to the roaring and murderous times of World War Two. It focuses on the two main characters in the book: one, an orphaned German soldier-to-be named Werner; and the other Marie Laure - a blind Parisian living with her father. How their stories will intertwine is quite a mystery.

All the Light We Cannot See begins during the final year of World War II. Hours before Allied airplanes bomb the French city of Saint-Malo, they drop leaflets that warn the inhabitants to evacuate. The story’s two protagonists, 16-year-old Marie-Laure LeBlanc and 18-year-old Werner Pfennig, are introduced. Neither of them has evacuated Saint-Malo. Marie-Laure is blind and alone in her great-uncle Etienne’s house. Werner is a soldier in the German army, under orders to stay at a Saint-Malo hotel called “the Hotel of Bees,” where the Germans have set up their headquarters.

Since the Razzo screening of this week consists of multiple movies. I would like to divide my response into two parts. The first part focuses on the key qualities that make Let There Be Light such an iconic documentary and also the source of its supression by the government. The second part focuses on the experimental films: Meshes of the Afternoon, Fireworks, and Rose Hobart.

In the novel, All The Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr there are many characters developed throughout the course of the novel who are reflective of society. During the development of the characters, the author reveals his viewpoint on the human condition including but not limited to, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality. One of the characters the author expresses his thoughts and ideas through is Werner Pfennig. Doerr reveals the lack of choice in our lives, the difficulty of making those choices, and the repercussions our choices can have.