All The Light We Cannot See Analysis

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All the Light We cannot See written by Anthony Doer symbolizes the peace making between France and Germany after WWII. The book begins with absolute chaos, the city in which the two main characters inhabit is being bombed. However, in the chaos lies Marie-Laure and Warner Pfennig shows us that humans are not completely contrast from each other, and one can learn to forgive. The book focuses on Marie-Laure a 16 year old girl lacks vision due to congenital cataracts. Her father works at a museum in Paris and when Germany occupies Paris they flee to Saint-Malo. Her father, a locksmith carries an important duty of protecting a rare and valuable diamond putting his life and Marie’s life at risk. When they Arrive in Saint-Malo their plans are not what they expected, so they decide to stay with a relative. Werner Pfennig, also an important character is only a boy with dreams of becoming an engineer, but the circumstances of life do not allow for his goal to become true. As a result, he decides to find an escape and join Nazi school. The tragedy of war is …show more content…

Vision, even though she doesn’t have, it she still has a sense of knowledge because of the lack of it. When France was invaded Marie’s father decided to leave the city the familiar place she called home. Her life, already hard for being blind would become much harder by moving to a different place. Imagine being blind and having to memorize new route, new directions, and recount your steps to be again familiarized with a place that you can call home. Marie, besides being patient, she also has a strong sense of morals, she is kind, smart, and making her not being able to see the reality of the situation, Marie is able to see what the war really is, a greedy, malicious act of evilness. Everybody else has reason to foothold the war. No matter if they’re German or French, but Marie thinks it’s pointless. Which it really is because the outcome was just

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