https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee By Alexandra Gallo, ORB Quarter 1 en-us 2018-10-30 17:48:14 UTC 2025-11-27 18:43:43 UTC hello@padlet.com gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298667554 2018-10-30 17:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298667554 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298675404 Alexandra Gallo block 5]]> 2018-10-30 18:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298675404 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298675887 "Open your eyes, concludes the man, and see what you can before they close forever,..." (Doerr 49)]]> 2018-10-30 18:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298675887 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298679963 The quote above is my favorite quote from the book because it symbolizes many different aspects of what is to come in the story, regarding both Marie-Laure, Werner, and other characters like Madame Manec. How the quote applies to Marie-Laure is the most obvious; it represents how she is trying to see all she can before she goes completely blind at age six. This quote also applies to Werner because it represents how Werner should have been trying to expose himself to all sides of every story and to enjoy life as he knew it before he became brainwashed by Nazi propaganda. As the book progressed, the reader slowly saw Werner's initial caring, compassionate, perceptive mindset morph into another one where he doesn't care about other people's feelings, and he only cares about doing what he is told, not what is right. This quote also applies to Madame Manec because it represents how she was trying to do all she could to aid the French Resistance before she passed away. She organized a group of seven women from Saint-Malo to do simple things to resist the Nazis. The quote is saying how people should do everything they can before those opportunities are lost forever.]]> 2018-10-30 18:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298679963 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298683548 I agree with the things said in this review from The Guardian. I chose this particular review because it doesn't just praise the book, it offers up some honest opinions and criticism that I agree with. For example, the reviewer states "No noun sits upon the page without the decoration of at least one adjective, and sometimes, alas, with two or three. ... "Fields enwombed with hedges" is almost the last straw. And so the novel is far too long." I agree with this statement because Doerr's frequent use of big adjectives made the book hard to stay interested in; the book just seemed to drone on and on before an interesting or significant plot point would come along. That being said, however, I feel as though Doerr's incredible use of reoccurring details makes up for his excessive use of adjectives. The reviewer feels this way as well, "Nevertheless, often Doerr rises again as, entranced with the story he is telling, he lets the overwriting slip away. And his attention to detail is magnificent. ... Much can be forgiven a Pied Piper like Doerr, who can pour his obsessive energies into a tale such as this." The way he made seemingly small details such as the puzzle box Marie-Laure would receive for her birthday come back at the end years after the war ended was remarkable.]]> 2018-10-30 18:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298683548 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298684162 I chose the use of POV and foreshadowing as my literary element. ]]> 2018-10-30 18:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298684162 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298684281 The book is told from third person POV, each alternating chapter focusing on either Werner or Marie-Laure. The author also has different "parts" of the story, and each part is at a different point in the story's timeline. Only it isn't in chronological order - parts from the year the story climaxes at, 1944, are woven into parts that take place starting as early as 1934. I really, really enjoyed this choice, because it allowed for a great use of foreshadowing as you alternate between the story's past and present. The things you read in the parts that take place in 1944 don't seem like much as you're reading them, but later in the story everything clicks and starts to make sense. For example, the reader finds out that someone has broken into the house Marie-Laure is staying in about halfway through the book. However, the reader doesn't know who it is, why they're there or why that is important. Then, towards the end of the book, the reader learns that the reason Werner officially meets and connects with Marie-Laure is to save her from the man who broke into her house. This technique was something I had never seen before, and something that helped keep the suspense of the book up. ]]> 2018-10-30 18:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298684281 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298684592 I chose another quote from the book as my choice element. "'Do you know what happens, Etienne, ... when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?'...'It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil?...The frog cooks.'" (Doerr 285)]]> 2018-10-30 18:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298684592 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298684846 I chose this quote because I feel it really symbolizes what is to come in the book. After the Nazis invade Saint-Malo, some women whom Madame Manec is friends with become outraged with some of the changes going on, like rations and the pricing of goods. Madame Manec then suggests organizing a small resistance group. They start off by doing small things, like sending shipments to incorrect destinations and misprinting train timetables. This represents the pot of cool water. Then, after Madame Manec passes away, Marie-Laure and her Uncle Etienne continue with her efforts, but escalate to more serious, bold things. For example, Marie-Laure starts picking up loaves of bread with hidden messages baked inside. Then, Uncle Etienne reads the coded messages to anyone who can hear over the radio he secretly has in his attic. This represents slowly bringing the water to a boil, and the cooking frog represents the Germans. ]]> 2018-10-30 18:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/298684846 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/299195588 The Guardian]]> 2018-10-31 22:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/299195588 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/299198185 I chose an old radio for my symbolic image of this book. In the book, Werner would listen to a French man's science lessons on the radio he built every night with his sister Jutta. He was fascinated by his lessons and remembered them for years and years to come. Then, later in the book, it was discovered that the man was Marie-Laure's grandfather. The whole reason Werner went to save Marie-Laure is because her house was being broken into by a Nazi in search of a transmitter - the same transmitter that the lessons came from and the same transmitter Marie-Laure used to beg for help. A radio was the reason Werner officially met Marie-Laure; the reason he came and saved her. ]]> 2018-10-31 22:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/299198185 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/299198399 2018-10-31 22:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/299198399 gal10520 https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/299516699 For additional bonus points I chose to explain the title of the book. The title "All the Light We Cannot See" is referring to how radio waves are invisible light. Towards the beginning of the book, Werner and his sister Jutta listen to one of the French man's radio broadcasts on light. Radios, as stated in my symbolic image explanation, play a huge role in the story; they are what get Werner recruited by the Nazis, they are how Etienne and Marie-Laure aided in the French resistance, and they are how Werner heard Marie-Laure beg for help. The title isn't referring to the light Marie-Laure cannot see because she is blind, which was my initial thought. Now, I think the title is referring to the light that neither Werner nor Marie-Laure can see, the invisible light that brought them together.]]> 2018-11-01 18:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gal10520/Allthelightwecannotsee/wish/299516699