The Light Between Oceans

The reading that I chose for this assignment is from Chapter Six in the required book for class “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”. The chapter title is “The Sea Around Us” where the primary concentration of the chapter was the consequences that humans have on the planet with the focus on ocean acidification. This happens from the carbon dioxide we pump into the air and it slowly seeps back down into the oceans and slowly increases the PH level thus causing the ocean to be more acidic. In about one hundred years do you believe that, oysters, mussels, and coral reefs survive?

Stedman effectively portrays how isolation influences the Sherbournes’ decision to keep Lucy-Grace, leading to distance and strain in their relationship. Subsequently, the author examines the dire consequences of isolation through Lucy Grace and Hannah Roennfeldt. Lucy-Grace, Hannah's biological daughter, is raised by the Sherbournes on Janus Rock. However, too young to comprehend the events surrounding her, Lucy-Grace remains unaware her life is 'founded on a single, enormous lie' Tom and Isabel helped 'craft and refine.' Upon leaving her 'world inhabited by only three people' to live with someone she believes she has never met; Stedman evokes how she 'aches for [her] Mamma and Dadda' and cannot 'name the sensation of losing them as grief.'

The narrator begins this story stating, “None of them knew the color of the sky” (338). He refers to the cook, the correspondent, the captain, and the oiler, the main characters. This quote means that all of them are focused on fighting for survival, paying all of their attention to the waves. They fight against the waves, trying to stay alive. However, the author states, “A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats” (339). The waves are a symbol of the uncaring nature; it does not matter how hard the protagonists try to fight against the waves because nature continues its course; the waves continue to flow. However, the characters are determined to stay alive. They continue to face this external conflict that is nature, even when they realize that nature is

In Jennifer Donnelly’s A Northern Light hope is portrayed as the guiding light in Mattie Gokey’s life. Hope takes Mattie on a roller coaster of emotions good and bad. Donnelly interpreted this by showing conflict, figurative language, and mood. Even though tragedy hit Gokey household Mattie persevered and held onto the hope of going to New York City to attend Barnard college.

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

The book ‘The Light Between Oceans’ is a romance war novel. The setting starts in december of 1918 right after the first world war in a place called Janus Rock, Australia. The two main characters Tom and his wife Isabel have an irresistible story. Tom just coming back from war and seeing Isabel, the only one smiling with joy while feeding bread to some birds, Toms focus was caught and life was put into a whole new perspective. From the bloody battles to a harmless game to see how many seagulls the two could attract, Tom's life had been turned around for the better. With Tom only passing through on his way to Janus, he didn’t see much of Isabel but a nice dinner with some people from town. When Tom arrived at the lighthouse, where he was now

To begin, the setting of the novel is on a deserted island in the Caribbean during World War II. The setting creates several challenges for the main characters, Phillip and Timothy. There was no fresh water source. Food was scarce. Timothy was forced to build a shelter on his own because Phillip was blinded during the shipwreck. The shelter was destroyed by the hurricane. The tropical heat scorched down on them all day, and made it difficult to sleep at night. In short, the setting shaped the entire plot.

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.

The book opens with, “ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail on the horizon, never out of sight…” (1) the horizon represents the distant future and dreams that the main character, Janie has for her life, while the ship represents a man’s dream. Not only does the horizon represent the possibility of change, but it always represents hope itself. The quote also describes how some people try to achieve their dreams and others fail to do so.

The novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman was an engrossing sci-fi novel. The story, largely told through flashbacks into the protagonist’s past, set in his early childhood, at the age of seven years old when he met an eccentric girl named Lettie Hempstock. His flashbacks are of his and Lettie’s adventures and when everything went awry on their lane.

In the book, The Awakening, the author Kate Chopin uses symbols to express meanings in her story about a young married woman exploring outside her comfort zone for herself and happiness. Main character, Edna Pontellier, feels trapped her in marriage as a wife and woman in the 19th century. In her quest to find her independence and true happiness, she does the unthinkable and her actions cause major conflict within herself. The book uses many symbols to express hidden meanings throughout Chopin’s story. A major symbol in The Awakening is the ocean. Since the book begins and ends here, it is a very complex and important part of the story. The ocean symbolizes freedom, growth, and rejection in Edna as she finds herself.

In the story a young boy decides to go hunting in the night and goes through a revelation as he witnesses an everyday act of the battle between light and darkness as the sun rises. Although set in a different place and time, both authors express a common universal theme: life is a constant battle between light and darkness in our everyday lives. This theme can be seen through a compare and contrast of powerful symbols, transforming settings and misguided characters.

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.

Moreover, All the Light We Cannot See began betwixt the notorious Nazi Party’s reign in Europe. Going back and forth between time periods, settings, and characters, the book, in the end, composes a mellifluous symphony of parallels that all eventually connect. Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a legally blind girl who continually viewed the glass as half-full, was accompanied by her father, Daniel LeBlanc, throughout the preceding portion of her pilgrimage to refuge during WWII. By fleeing unavoidable harm and siege in Paris, Marie-Laure and her father walked, by foot, to the island city of Saint Malo, France. The pair brought along a sacred, irreplaceable stone: the Sea of Flames from the Museum of Natural History in Paris, where Marie-Laure’s father previously worked. Finally reaching

reflects the main plot in the book. It is set on a beach and involves