All The Light We Cannot See Character Analysis

In Anthony Doerr’s book All the Light We Cannot See, there were many acts of bravery, however three characters exceed the others; they are Marie Laure, Etienne, and Werner. They all showed numerous acts of bravery throughout the book. They faced threats to themselves and other’s but they were calm and brave and managed to get through them.

Marie Laure exhibited bravery often in the book. At the beginning of the book, when she first became blind, her father tried to teach her to get around in the city. He built a model of the city to help her understand the city and find her way. Then he took her to the middle of the city and told her to find her way home. At first she was scared and said she couldn’t do it, but she asked her father to take
He showed bravery in many ways throughout the book. The first instance of his bravery is when he is first at the school. They have the students climb to the top of a platform and jump off. Most of the kids that went before were very scared or took a long time to jump. One of the people even jumped and broke their arm. But Werner thought that he needed to impress the people making the selections. He climbed the ladder and jumped off the platform very quickly. Another time that he showed bravery was when he was trapped under the hotel with Volkheimer. He was about to give up trying to fix the radio and trying to get out. But when Volkheimer told him to think of his sister he started to fix the radio. He was brave for doing this is because he was about to give up but he didn’t. Another time he showed bravery was when he heard Etienne over the radio and tried to hide it from Volkheimer and the rest of the people in his company. He was brave for doing this because that goes against his orders and he could be shot for it. But doing that ended up helping him and Volkheimer because the music that Marie played over that radio inspired Volkheimer to get them out from under the