All The Light We Cannot See Book Analysis

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 liesMarie-Laure and Warner Pfennig show us that humans are not complete contrasts from each other and one can learn to forgive. The book focuses on Marie-Laure a 16 year old girl that was left blind due to congenital cataracts. Her father works at a museum in Paris and when Germany occupies Paris they flee to Saint-Malo. Her father is tasked with an important duty. He is given a dimond that puts his life’s and Marie’s life at risk. When they Arrive in Saint-Malo they’re plans are not what they expected
During those times people really did not have a choice as to what to do with their lives. As a result, great minds were lost. One example is Werner, Werner has a brilliant mind. Ever since a kid he was curious as how things functioned. His mind always starved for knowledge, he was one of the people who were born to climb up to the top, only he was born in an inconvenient time when knowledge was used to destroy. Werner’s mother died after giving birth to his sister and his father followed when he was six years old in a mine accident. Werner and his sister were sent to an orphanage where they are loved and fed everyday. One day as Werner and his sister wandered around they found a radio that changed his life. The radio was trash, but Werner with his incredible curiosity managed to fix
He views all the things the Germans are doing as wrong so he decides to rebel against them. He is just a kid, but saying no to the supreme leaders and teachers might open the eyes of a few more people. It opened Warner’s eye. One of my favorite quotes said by Frederick is “”Your problem Werner, is that you still believe you own your life.”” Fredrick is a gentle soul and was left traumatized when he was battered by the rest of the Nazi students. However, he held his head high and when he went back he refused to participate in macabre acts. At the end, he is kicked out and Werner decides to confront his teacher. He tells him he will not participate or use his talents to hurt other as a consequence he is drafted to the war even though he was not eighteen years of age. That only shows Frederick was right, but Werner had some choice in what to do with his life and he received the chance to redeem himself by helping Marie-laure and the French