Werner And Marie-Laure In All The Light We Cannot Speak

Liesel Meminger, the main character in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, is a very complex and deep character. Throughout the almost six year span of her life starting from age nine covered by this novel, Liesel not only grows intellectually and physically, but as a whole person. Physically when Liesel arrived on Himmel Street as a foster child, “everything about her was undernourished” (Zusak, 31). Death described even her smile as hungry. Liesel was depicted with “Her hair was a close enough brand of German blond, but she had dangerous eyes.

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

In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a young girl living in Nazi Germany named Liesel, was given up by her mother and sent to live with her new foster family. Liesel was given to the Hubermanns at ten years old. Throughout Liesel's journey during World War ll she has been abandoned by her mother, her brother Werner, a Jew named Max and her foster papa Hans. Over the course of the novel Liesel Meminger suffers from being abandoned by losing many friends and family that are close to her.

The Book Thief, containing the female protagonist Liesel Meminger, translates the theme of perseverance throughout its story by pitching a tough-loving foster mother, an indomitable urge to collect literature, and World War Ii and the loss of love and family against Liesel. Beginning a new life on Himmel Street, Liesel moves in with the Hubermanns. This is where she had to endure Rosa, her new foster mother. Rosa was a despicable woman who spat deplorable words, such as saumensch and Arschloch, at her.

The different shots in the book thief helped me understand more about the main character Liesel Meminger. Liesel is a young girl who lost her little brother and her mother gives her up as soon as her brother dies. But luckily is taken in by Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann. All three of them have quite a separate bond at the start but later on they start getting quite close together and start to become a proper family. Many shots show Liesel's fear during the Holocaust of what's about to happen. When it was the parade for the burning of the jewish books Rudy and Liesel seem to be clueless of what's happening around them. They just join in with the experience of that time. But one camera shot showed the moment when liesel realises what's happening.

Liesel Meminger aka the book thief is not any ordinary kid. She lived without a father and lost both her mother and brother at the age of 9, while being sent away to a new family the Hubermann at the Himmel Street. In the Hubermann's home Liesel finds two loving, caring, and opposite people, Hans and Rosa Hubermann who would help and teach her to survive and grow. While foster mother, Rosa is loud, harsh, and likes to use the word saumensch or female pig to address Liesel, foster father Hans is softer and shows more affectionate to Liesel.

The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusack, depicts the horrors of World War II from the perspective of the harshest consequence of the war itself, Death. Despite the negative connotation Death receives, his demeanor is quite contradictory. More times than not, Death is found straying from his original mission as the slave of hindered human souls. He stops often, perplexed by the complexity of the living human souls, particularly, Liesel Meminger. Death is a compassionate figure because he sympathizes with the emotions of human beings and cares deeply for their souls.

Hello Jen, Sorry I haven't written in a while. I am on page 134. I am really enjoying the short chapters and I love how Doerr jumps from Marie-Laure to Werner's story. It is interesting to see how (their quite different) lives are unfolding alongside one another. I obviously have been very nervous for both characters since the beginning though, but I am now worried for Werner in different ways. I fear that he will be brainwashed by the Nazi's ( his sister already recognizes this of course) and that something is going to happen to his sister while he is away. Although I also like reading it from their point of view.

“It is 1939, Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.” In the Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the narrator death is haunted by humans. He revisits history, gets into the heart and minds of the characters, gives small hints of events to come and has an opinion all in the quest to reconcile humanity’s capability to do evil with humanity’s capability to do good.

Werner becomes an expert in building and fixing radios after finding a radio he became enchanted with. This wins him a place in a cruel academy for Hitler Youth. He is then assigned to track the resistance, which makes him realize humanity pays the price for his intelligence. He travels around until he finally travels into Saint-Malo where he crosses paths with Marie Laurie.

During War Two, people couldn’t rebel against the overpowering cruelty of Nazis; it was difficult for the suffering people under Nazi rule to do what was they saw as right. For example, as main character, Marie-Laure, and all those she loved within Nazi France, endured curfews and rations, suffered as their belongings were confiscation, and lived under the constant fear of being killed or arrested. Because of Nazi rule, Marie-Laure and her loved ones couldn’t reach their full potential as the Nazis were stunting their goodness. The other main character, Werner, a boy from France who was later raised to be part of the Nazi army, faced a similar situation. He knew that Nazi cause he was taking apart in, within school and then later on the battlefield, was wrong. Werner was horrified as he saw

The government is using Werner to their advantage because they are making Werner complete the radios to block out anti-German broadcasts, along with helping the government find the transmitters for in battle. Werner is also bribed by the government because the government offers all these little perks to the citizens if they are to help and join into the army, including Hitler’s Youth. The idea of Werner’s figurative blindness relates to the theme of ignorance, because Werner is hidden from the truth of the war. Another symbol that is heavy throughout the novel relating to the theme is youthfulness. In both cases of Werner and Marie-Laure, they are both shed from the truth behind the war, and the hatefulness of the country.

Liesel is the main character in this novel and is nine years old. Her brother died on the way to her new home in Molching, Germany, so she stole her first book to remind herself of him. She lives with her foster parents Hans and Rosa, and does not know how to read or write in German. She also became good friends with a boy named Rudy Steiner. She feels as if her mother abandoned her, therefore she has a hard time believing that she was ever loved in the first place.

While Werner struggles in the life of an orphan, he, along with his sister, discovers his true calling. Werner has a talent for electricity in general, but he is an expert on radios. He stays up late in his small loft bedroom reading and making changes to his radio, somehow fixing them in only minutes. He hopes to become a scientist and move to Berlin where the

Arriving at the culminating chapters of All the Light We Cannot See, the audience is presented a faultless conclusion to an epic work of historical fiction. Through amply detailed language and characters, Doerr achieves a final strike that is breathtaking and heartbreaking. In addition, the three most impacting aspects of the novel (war, destiny, and humanity) reach their zenith within this section of the novel.