Analysis Of All The Light We Cannot See

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. Werner started off as a young orphan who lived in a home with his sister Jutta, who he cared deeply for, and always protected. He was a very curious boy who loved to learn new things. Werner knew if he stayed living in the orphanage he would be sent to the mines and that is where his father died. Werner knew he did not want his life to end like his fathers. Werner became very infatuated with radios. He loved putting them together and fixing them. Werner and his sister would stay up all night listening to the radio that he fixed. They would sneak out at night and listen to a Frenchman’s broadcast. Werner goes into the National Political Institutes of Education, where they had him doing a lot of

Even though Marie couldn’t see she loved to read. She went to the museum everyday with her father. On every one of her birthdays her father got her a brail book to read. Growing up Marie had to learn how to count her steps and to feel things to know where she was at and where she was going. Marie really had to become strong when moving to Saint-Malo. Her father had become distant from everybody. Marie started to become close to her uncle Etienne and his care taker Madame Manec. She was so eager to leave the house and walk around Saint-Malo and feel around. Her father refused and wouldn’t let her leave the