All The Light We Cannot See Summary

Some of the major characters in All the Light We Cannot See are Marie-Laure LeBlanc, Werner Pfennig, and Etienne LeBlanc. Marie-Laure is the daughter of a Paris museum locksmith; she had gone blind by the age of 6. Marie-Laure coped with her blindness by touching a wooden replica of their neighborhood so she could learn how to navigate it even though she is blind. Marie-Laure’s father had received a diamond called The Sea of Flames which was rumored that the owner of this stone would live forever. But not long after he had received this stone, Marie-Laure and her father evacuate Paris so that her father could deliver the stone to a friend of the museum. They find shelter at Marie-Laure’s great uncle, Etienne. Her father is soon arrested on

They used a radio to broadcast information to the Allied powers. During the Siege of Saint-Malo, Marie-Laure is locked up in her uncle’s attic for days because of a German officer staying in her house trying to find the Sea of Flames. She is saved by Werner. After the war, Marie-Laure started to work at the same museum that her father worked at, she had a daughter named Helene, and a grandson named Michel. Then there was Werner Pfenning, who seemed to be the exact opposite of Marie-Laure. He had grown up in an orphanage in Zollverein, Germany with his sister, Jutta. He has a brilliant mind and outsmarts most people his age. He dreams of being a scientist, but is told that he will be forced to work in a coal mine when he turns 15. He is scared that he will end up like this father, who was crushed in one of Germany’s coal mines. Werner finds a way to avoid the coal mines by impressing a high ranking German officer and he is enrolled in National Political Institute of Education at Schulpforta. When he turns 16, his mentor lies to the government about his age and he is drafted into the military. He joins a unit that locates and destroys anti-German radio stations or