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We often associate light with happiness and joy. Light seems to bring optimism, cheerfulness and happiness to those who see the light. Our view of light depicts it as a symbol of joy and happiness.

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The term enlightenment, often used to describe learned knowledge. Light is used in the way of light guiding us in our lives through knowledge. Schools and other places of knowledge are occasionally referred to as "sources of light" because of the association of light with knowledge.

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Light symbolizes hope. Even a small amount of light is enough to drive darkness away, and simultaneously bring hope to those in the darkness.

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"The moonlight shines and billows; the broken clouds scud above the trees. Leaves fly everywhere. But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in...impossibly slow, imperturbable rays. They hang across the buckling grass"(Doerr 482).

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"So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible"(Doerr 369).

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"In her imagination, in her dreams, everything has color...The huge cypress trees she and her father pass on their morning walk are shimmering kaleidoscopes, each needle a polygon of light"(Doerr 44-45).

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"She loves to imagine Darwin at night, leaning over the ship's rail to stare into bioluminescent waves, watching the tracks of penguins marked by fiery green waves"(Doerr 150-151).

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"In the center of the quadrangle, torches burn...A vault of stars hang overhead...nightmarishly above the courtyard"(Doerr 227).

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"He finds Volkheimer staring up at a single sheared hole of purple light. Sky. Night sky. A shaft of starlight slices through the dust and drops along the edge of a mound of rubble to the floor"(Doerr 458).

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"In the absolute blackness, his vision is webbed with a thousand traveling wisps of red and blue. Flames? Phantoms? They lick along the floor, then rise to the ceiling, glowing strangely, serenely"(Doerr 99).

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"I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God"(Doerr 52).

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"The brain is locked in total darkness of course children...It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?"(Doerr 48)

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"As the birds rush overhead, she imagines she can feel the light settling over their wings, striking each individual feather"(Doerr 41).

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In All The Light We Cannot See, light symbolizes hope, fear, mystery, curiosity, knowledge, understanding, and eternity throughout the novel.