All the Light We Cannot see is the story of a father and his 12 year old daughter named Marie-Laure, who has become blind from cataracts. During world war two in Paris. The father, a locksmith who works for the Museum of Natural History, in which lies a priceless stone called the Sea of Flames. It is believed that the person in whose possession it is in will be immortal, but that everyone around them would instead suffer greatly. As the Germans invade Paris, Marie-Laure and her father move to the coast to live with their uncle. The father takes the stone with him.
On the other side of Europe in Germany, there is a 14 year old orphan boy named Werner Pfennig whose talent for fixing mechanical objects landed him in the Hitler youth.
During his time there, the instructors realized his amazing talent and sent him off to the army where he helped locate illegal resistant radio signals. Later, Werner realizes that his talent is costing many lives.
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Furthermore, Werner and Marie-Laure then met once Werner discovers an illegal signal that was being broadcast from her uncle's house.
Her uncle decides to help her and to set her free from a German man named Von Rumpel who is seeking the Sea of Flames. Werner becomes very sick. Although, he seemed to recover. Werner mistakenly enters a field of landmines at night and ends up triggering a mine that sadly ends his life.
Finally, the story ends 30 years later with Jutta, Werner’s sister, when she met with Marie-Laure, where she finds out that the Sea of Flames was left in a hidden grotto in Saint-Malo by Werner before he died. Marie-Laure, now 86 years old at the end of the novel, was walking in the streets of Paris with her
granddaughter. The story had many themes within it. One of my favorites was light, darkness and hope. All three of them stood strongly on their own and also came together to mean something amazing. Darkness referred to what people felt during the war. When everyone was hungry and poor or when Marie-Laure was alone in the closet hiding. Everyone felt sad they felt scared as if they were in an everlasting darkness. Darkness can also refer to all the lack of information everyone had, they were all in “The dark” on what was happening and the scariest that can happen to someone is not knowing. The light referred to the rare, small sparks of hope that maybe things would get better. When Marie-Laure arrived at her uncle's house with her father they thought they were safe as they thought that maybe they were alright until that small glimmer of hope vanished when the germans invaded. Another example is when Verner left for Hitler Youth he had hope that maybe he won't have to work in the mines until he finds out that he not doing any good. Together they refer to the journey the character took as if they were wondering threw a dark tunnel just looking, waiting for the light to shine on them like Verner when he arrived at Hitler youth, waiting for things to get better. Anthony Doerr has a very distinctive way of writing. One of his most recognized form is descriptive writing. Most of the time I really enjoyed the detail that he wrote about. He made me feel like I was really there. The author made me feel like a was a blind child walking threw my uncle's house. Let me give another example of Doerr’s prose, chosen at random on page 40, five paragraphs from the top of the page: “Cars splash along the streets, and snowmelt drums through the runnels; she can hear snowflakes tick and patter through the trees.” He described how the wind felt, how it smelled, the emotion. Another form of writing he he used was the change in perspective, Way he described the world from each character's perspective. He did an amazing job when making the distinction between the different characters
Dieter, a fifteen year old German soldier, is going into war even though his parents don’t want him to. He has no idea what real war is going to be like and he thinks that Germany has done no wrong no matter what the other, elderly soldiers tell him, he doesn’t believe it. The other boy, Spence, is sixteen and he drops out
He gives up everything that he believes in to follow his dreams of becoming a 8. “‘When I lost my sight,Werner,people said I was brave. When my father left,people said I was bravery;I have no choice”’(Doerr 469). Werner is talking to Marie Laure just after he rescues her. Von Rumpel locates Werner and just when he's about shoot Werner,Marie-Laure drops a brick distracts them both.
After the death of her brother, Werner, she becomes despondent and irrational. As she numbly follows her mother to the burial
The book All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer, was not your traditional love and war story. It’s about a young blind girl named Marie growing up in the war, who had a connection with a young boy named Werner who is a part of the Hitler youth. There are a few other characters who are all in different parts of the world, and yet they eventually all meet up together and find out they all have some type of connection between each other. All of the characters in the book were affected by the war, and caused them to change into the characters that they ended up to be.
War was one of the most difficult and brutal things a society could ever go through. World War II was especially terrible because it affected so many people.World War II was centered in Europe and the people of the European countries felt the effects much more than many of the other countries that were also participating in the world war. In the book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr, the story took place during World War II in Europe, the center stage for the war. This war was one of the most difficult wars because it destroyed homes, displaced thousands, tore families apart, killed off loved ones, and forced people to make tough decisions they had to live with for the rest of their lives. In All The Light We Cannot See,
The story is a 3rd person view of a young boy called Georg who lived in Germany with his dad who was born in England and his mother born Germany. At the time all he wanted was to be a perfect boy in Hitler’s eyes which now wouldn’t be a good thing these days but at his time it would be all anyone ever
I think the sea of flames has a different role when you look at through another perspective. In Marie and Von Rumpel perspective, it’s trophy like object, since Marie is trying to keep it and Von Rumpel is trying to get, this corresponds with the real life like if someone has a title / trophy of “fastest runner” they would be trying to hold on to the title while others are trying to get it. But in the book, if Von Rumpel gets the sea flames, he might kill Marie or he might kill her then take it.
“Art can use the power of visual image to challenge and even change popular opinions about important and universal issues. Art can be a very influential way to give a strong, direct comments and criticisms on things that have happened in society and culture.” (Rehab-Mol J, 1998, p6) Indigenous art is mostly about connecting to their land and their religious belief; however, art has different forms, especially the Indigenous contemporary art as it uses ‘modern materials in a mixed cultural context’. (Aboriginal Art Online, 2000)
Paul Baumer is a 19-year-old volunteer to the German army during World War I. He and his classmates charge fresh out of high school into military service, hounded by the nationalist ranting of a feverish schoolmaster, Kantorek. Though not all of them want to enlist, they do so in order to save face. Their first stop is boot camp, where life is still laughter and games. “Where are all the medals?” asks one. “Just wait a month and I’ll have them,” comes the boisterous response. This is their last vestige of boyhood.
Werner dreams of stepping into the shoes of an engineer, however, to do so he must leave behind his sister Jutta. Sacrificing the relationship between his sister and care-taker, he is used to create Nazi radios to help during war. When Werner asks to leave the institution, punishment only ensued, leaving a void and sense of betrayal within him. Despite the void, the true sacrifice comes toward the end of the novel. When the assistance of the radio enabled Werner and Marie-Lure to communicate. Werner saving Marie-Lure’s life, while killing another.
"The weak must be chiseled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp's steel.( Hitler)” Adolf Hitler is an iconic figure for World War II, his influence and power were for reading and best be seen through the youth of Germany who he so effectively influenced. Growing up, Hitler had many trials and tribulations, and influenced how he saw the importance of youth . The Hitler youth movement was seen as important as a child going to school. Because Hitler believed that the future of Nazi Germany was its children, he sought to shape the minds of German children through propaganda, education, and youth groups.
Buergenthal, Thomas. A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy. New York: Little, Brown, 2009.
Oskar Schindler would never have been anyone’s ideal savior, especially for the Jewish community. He was an open member of the Nazi party, a womanizer, a gambler, an alcoholic, and was extremely money hungry, but was successfully able to rescue and save from death over twelve hundred Jewish men and women. Schindler was born on April 28th, 1908 in Zwittua, Czechoslavakia. He was born Catholic and into a wealthy family, but started early on a life of sin. In 1930 he moved to Poland in hopes of becoming a success in business. As the Holocaust was just in its’ beginnings, he was able to get his hands on an enamel wear factory on Lapowa Street in in Krakow. This was one of the factories that used to owned and ran by a Jewish individual, but was then stripped away from them like all other businesses that were stolen away from the Jewish people during the Holocaust. The location of the factory was only a few miles away from the ghettos. Schindler quickly moved in on the SS officers and tried to make close ties with them in order to gain connections with high authority. He showered them with women, money, alcohol, and other desired objects. From his new acquaintances he obtained free employment from the Jewish “slaves” of the labor camps. In order to keep his factory and the money he was making, Schindler changed his factory to cater to wartime needs. The factory was modified from producing enamel wares to ammuntion, but the ammunition was faulty and did not work. S...
Director Mark Herman presents a narrative film that attests to the brutal, thought-provoking Nazi regime, in war-torn Europe. It is obvious that with Herman’s relatively clean representation of this era, he felt it was most important to resonate with the audience in a profound and philosophical manner rather than in a ruthlessness infuriating way. Despite scenes that are more graphic than others, the films objective was not to recap on the awful brutality that took place in camps such as the one in the movie. The audience’s focus was meant to be on the experience and life of a fun-loving German boy named Bruno. Surrounding this eight-year-old boy was conspicuous Nazi influences. Bruno is just an example of a young child among many others oblivious of buildings draped in flags, and Jewis...
It will later be a major theme in the book. On the mountain, fire is created,