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The theme of All The Light We Cannot See is survival and endurance. Both main characters, as well as many others in the book, were forced in to uncomfortable situations. But with endurance most were able to push throughout what felt like a never ending war.

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”Rain taps on the windowpanes.”

Rain does not tap on things like humans do.
pg (181)

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"Pass us by, Horsemen. Pass this house by."

The Horsemen is a reference to the Christian ideology of the end of the world. The Horsemen signify the start of the apocalypse and this parallels the way the war feel like the end of the world. (Pg 333)

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-Sexual content
-Violence
-Drugs
-Mature content

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Importance of Background and Color Scheme

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Importance of Background and Color Scheme

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For our background we chose Saint-Malo, the city where the primary story takes place.

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This novel details the lives of two very different individuals living through World War II; Marie-Laure LeBlanc A blind 12 year old girl secretly working for the resistance, and Werner Pfenning, an orphan turned Nazi solider whose only job is to find and kill resistance members. In a strange turn of events, Marie-Laure and Werner meet and help each other during the fall of the Nazi Regiment.

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Historical Fiction

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Anthony Doerr

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"I hate them. I hate them for that."

Boys in a group were shooting into trees to see how many birds they could hit and this causes a conflict between Frederick and the group of cadets.

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The Professor (162)      WORDS OF THE WISER

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The Professor (162)      WORDS OF THE WISER

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The book puts letter into the book as if they were written in it. There are words blocked out with black ink which was kind of strange. Then there was a realization that the letter was from Warner to Jutta and the information had to be removed by an army official to keep information safe.

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"Girl with a cane, girl with a grey dress, girl made of mist"

Werner can not stop thinking of the girl that died, she haunts him and Marie reminds him of her.

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Entropy (239)                THOUGH QUESTION 

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Entropy (239)                THOUGH QUESTION 

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"But was it decent to leave him out there like that? Even after he was dead?"
"Decency does not matter to them."

Werner questions the morality and decency of the boys mocking the dead prisoners body. Then is answered with they simply do not care.

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The Beams (389)            MORAL DILEMMA 

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The Beams (389)            MORAL DILEMMA 

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Werner says, "Where I'm from, they dug up trees. Prehistoric ones."
Volkheimer says, "I was desperate to leave."
"I was too."
"And now?"

Volkheimeer asks Werner if he still doesn't want to be at the mines after he has experienced being in the army and the horrors it brings.

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Don't tell Lies (133)        MORAL DILEMMA 

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Don't tell Lies (133)        MORAL DILEMMA 

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"to do something only because everyone else is doing it?"

Jutta asks her brother werner why he wants to be a soldier and tries to convince him otherwise.

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"She seems short; she wears blocky, heavy shoes. Hers is a low voice, full of pebles--a sailor'svoice or a smokers."

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"Her voice is like a bright, clear window of sky. Her face a field of freckles. He thinks: I don't want to let you go."
This quote characterizes both Werner and Marie-Laure. It tells the reader what Marie-Laure's physical complection is, while also showing Werner's "Soft" or kinder side. The entire story Werner is depicted as a fighter. This quote allows the reader to see a completely different side of him.

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”He will wait. Wait and wait and wait.”

The repetition makes the mood more serious and tense.
pg (203)

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"sublimity," Hauptmann says, panting, "you know what that is, Pfennig?" He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling. Never has Werner seen him like this. "It's the instant when one thing is about to become something else. Day to night, caterpillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man."

Hauptmann is stating that Werner is changing from a boy into a man.

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Heaven (292)                  WORDS OF THE WISER

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Heaven (292)                  WORDS OF THE WISER

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"What if your blind?"
"Id expect that if God wants us to see something, we'll see it."

Madam Manec's response to Marie's question. Madam's response is very  excellent it can broadly be used in many scenarios in life.

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"Pass us by, Horseman. Pass this house by."
This is the only line in the book that is in first person. ATLWCS is told in a third person omniscient point of view with quotes around what the characters say. I believe the author chose to include this one line because it interrupts the flow of the book. By interrupting the flow the reader feels like they are actually in the book opposed to sitting on the sidelines.

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"Of coarse it matters. I want to be an engineer. And you want to study birds. Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?"

Werner is puzzled as to why Fredrick continues to go to Schulpforta only for his parents.

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Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
Werner is remembering what the french man used to said on the radio

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"do you ever wish," whispers Werner, "that you didn't have to go back?"
"Father needs me to be at Shulpforta. Mother too. It doesn't mater what I want."

Werner learns that Fredrick doesn't like and doesn't want to be at Shulpforta but has too for his parents which puzzles him.

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Fredrick whose smudged eyeglasses have gone Opaque in the candlelight, whose makeup looks strange and lewd now, as though it has intensified the bruises rather than conceal them, and a fealing of great uneasiness overtakes him. He Hears Rodel swing the hose, the smak of it across Fredrick's upflung palms.

While out in Berlin with Fredrick, Werner starts to remember the beatings Frederick would get and how he didn't help him.

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"My sister would love this."

Werner thinks of his sister when he has been separated from her for so long.

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"His face appears over the edge of the upper bunk, or his silhouette presses binoculars to the windowpane........Broken jaw , cracked skull, brain trauma.

Werner misses Frederick so he imagines him in his bed and then him being beaten.

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" 'This is not rearranging street signs, What we are doing, Marie. This is not misplacing letters at the post office. These numbers, they're more than numbers. Do you understand ?' 'But we are the good guys. Aren't we,  Uncle?' 'I hope so. I hope we are.'"
this is the first time in the book that it is stated that Marie-Laure and Etiene are working as part of the resistance. Before this it was only hinted at.

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"In the end, none of us will avoid it"

Volkheimer makes a statement that they will all have to fight on the frontlines due to Germany being too stubborn to surrender.

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"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe. . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite."
The sea is referenced through out the entire book. It is used as a safe heaven for Marie-Laure. The sea is the only constant through out the war.

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"If they run in to Germans, he will speak only French, say he is helping her leave the city. If they run into Americans, he will say he is deserting."
This quote is important because it is one of the first times Werner decides to go against Hitler's Germany.

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"Keys as long as Marie - Laurie's forearm and keys shorter than her thumb."
Not only does it describe the types of keys but also describes Marie's physical being.

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"the shunting cars, the banging locks, the trundling conveyors,"

This sentence is choppy and it shows the stress Warner was feeling from the war. (264)

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"All are filthy beyond comprehension, but somewhere in the previous hours, they have taken the liberty of splashing themselves with womens perfume. They seem partly like sheepish schoolboys and party like lunatics with an hour left to live. The first only has a rope for a belt and is so thin, he does not have to unknot it to slide of his trousers."

This depiction of Russian soldiers shows us the effects of war on the soldiers who fight it.

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"He sees nothing but he can see her... some truth he does not want to allow himself to apprehend, and as she speaks, she ages, silver hair lays down on her head, her collar fays; she becomes an old woman."

Werner feels guilty and is traumatized by the killing of the little girl in the red hood.

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(Marie) "I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?"
(Werner) "Not in years. But today. today maybe I did."

Werner is asked if he just lives life with no meaning to it and replies that he hasn't for years but today he now has a reason to live it. This could also mean that he decided to make decisions for himself, and not the army.

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"Is the girl still playing her recording?
Volkheimer says, "Take the rifle. Go."

Volkheimer gives Werner the only rifle they had to go see the girl he has been talking about. Volkheimer lets Werner go even though the war was still being fought.

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"I was desperate to leave."
(Werner) "I was too."
"And now?"

Volkheimer and Werner were reminiscing about their homeland and how they wanted to escape them in the past and explore the world. Though now they want to escape their current situation and go home to where things were better.

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"Like a little girl with stars in my eyes "

Madame Manec explains how she feels at seventy six years old" (253)

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"How the people of Berlin believe in them like a nun believes in God"

Von Rumple giving an example  of how much the people believe in him. (202)

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A Greek word meaning "Sailor"
- Noun
"John was a Nautilus for the saint Maria sailing across the atlantic."

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A German word that means "Nothing"
- Pronoun
"when the German was asked if he had anything on him he simply replied with nichts."

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-information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
-Noun
"Hitler spread propaganda throughout Germany in order to mislead the people into believing that Germany is winging."

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A German-style inn or tavern with a bar, a restaurant, banquet facilities and hotel rooms for rent.
-  Noun
"The Gasthaus was full of drunkards with full stomachs while dancing in the banquet room. After they would then rest in hotel to recover from the night."

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- German word
- take off
- remove
- Verb
"The German prisoners were instructed to Ausziehen their weapons and tools."

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-Latin word for Pretty Lady
-Noun
"Many would call Taylor Swift a belladonna due to her radiant beauty."

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"Around four o'clock, an American field howitzer, two miles away, lets fly a single improperly ranged shell. It sails over the city walls and bursts against the northern parapet of Fort National, where three hundred and eighty Frenchmen are being held against their will with minimal cover. Nine are killed instantly. One of them still clutching the hand of bridge he was playing when the shell struck"

This paragraph seems unnecessary at first and  makes the reader wonder what meaning, if any, it has to the story. Later in the book it is reviled that Marie-Laure's uncle was sent to this camp. This makes the reader wonder if her uncle is the 'single Frenchman' singled out before. (375)

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"I needed time to say goodbye, and now I must look after myself and my niece. Thank you."

After losing Madam Manec, Etiene resolves himself to get over his fears in order to take care of Marie and himself.

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- German, Swiss and Austrian military rank
-Noun
- the second rank or grade to which an enlisted soldier, airman or sailor could be promoted.
"The soldier with the rank of Gefreiter was given access to most military supplies."

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-a ruthless, tyrannical leader.
-German
-Noun
-This term was how people described Hitler during the war.
"Hitler was the leader of Germany or called the Fuher by his followers.

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Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (19)

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Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (19)

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"Marie Laure LeBlanc is a tall and freckled six year old in
Paris with rapidly deteriorating eyesight when her father sends her on a children's tour of the museum where he works."

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Upon Werners arrival to the Military school, the doctors pick apart every student. They measure every inch of the new students and determine if they are worthy or the ideal race. Werner's eyes are described as "Himmelblau, sky blue" and his hair is " 'Schnee' ...Snow. Werner's hair is lighter than the lightest color on the board."

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“imagines the old woman with veiny hands and milky eyes and over sized ears.”

Since Marie is blind that's how  she imagines Madam Manec to look like. (147)

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-A contemptuous word used by the french to describe German soldiers
- Mostly used during world war 2.
-Adjective
"During the German occupation of France, the French insulted the Boches as much as they could."

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-A German word meaning "A person considered racially or socially inferior"
-Translates to subhuman or under man
-Coined by the Nazis as a term for the Non-Aryan or "Inferior People" (People of Jewish, Romany, or Slavic decent)
-Noun
"Anyone who wasn't German during world war 2 was called a Untermensch or inferior human by German people.

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"The house creaks,drips,and groans .”(105)

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"The toilet is an abyss."

Marie had just turned blind and everything was scary and uncertain for her even going to bathroom. (218)