https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590 Madelyn Limon, Nathalia Rocha, Austin Mitchell en-us 2021-04-21 16:46:54 UTC 2025-10-27 19:46:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://prod-bb-images.akamaized.net/book-covers/coverimage-9780007559107-harpercollinsuk-2020-09-01.jpg?w=200&format=jpg&quality=85 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443792502 "The toilet is an abyss."

Marie had just turned blind and everything was scary and uncertain for her even going to bathroom. (218)]]> 2021-04-21 17:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443792502 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443796967 "The house creaks,drips,and groans .”(105)

]]> 2021-04-21 17:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443796967 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443803202 -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.

]]> 2021-04-21 17:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443803202 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443844107 -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."

]]> 2021-04-21 17:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443844107 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443859549 “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)]]> 2021-04-21 17:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1443859549 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1452719966 ”Rain taps on the windowpanes.”

Rain does not tap on things like humans do.
pg (181)]]> 2021-04-23 17:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1452719966 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1452723082 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."]]> 2021-04-23 17:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1452723082 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1452735926 ”He will wait. Wait and wait and wait.”

The repetition makes the mood more serious and tense.
pg (203)]]> 2021-04-23 17:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1452735926 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1452748460 "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."]]> 2021-04-23 17:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1452748460 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465281598 "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)]]> 2021-04-27 16:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465281598 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465287570 "Like a little girl with stars in my eyes "

Madame Manec explains how she feels at seventy six years old" (253)]]> 2021-04-27 16:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465287570 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465321105 "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)]]> 2021-04-27 16:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465321105 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465334164 -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.]]> 2021-04-27 16:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465334164 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465356748 - 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."]]> 2021-04-27 16:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465356748 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465389180 "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.]]> 2021-04-27 17:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1465389180 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474757281 "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)]]> 2021-04-29 16:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474757281 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474800222 "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)]]> 2021-04-29 16:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474800222 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474802800 -Latin word for Pretty Lady 
-Noun
"Many would call Taylor Swift a belladonna due to her radiant beauty."]]> 2021-04-29 16:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474802800 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474815825 - German word
- take off
- remove
- Verb
"The German prisoners were instructed to Ausziehen their weapons and tools."]]> 2021-04-29 16:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474815825 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474830583 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."]]> 2021-04-29 16:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474830583 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474845231 -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."]]> 2021-04-29 17:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474845231 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474866435 A German word that means "Nothing"
- Pronoun 
"when the German was asked if he had anything on him he simply replied with nichts."]]> 2021-04-29 17:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474866435 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474886344 A Greek word meaning "Sailor"
- Noun
"John was a Nautilus for the saint Maria sailing across the atlantic."]]> 2021-04-29 17:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1474886344 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1486150700 "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. ]]> 2021-05-03 16:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1486150700 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1486194700 "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.]]> 2021-05-03 16:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1486194700 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1486277810 "She seems short; she wears blocky, heavy shoes. Hers is a low voice, full of pebles--a sailor'svoice or a smokers."]]> 2021-05-03 17:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1486277810 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1486553133 "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.]]> 2021-05-03 17:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1486553133 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503168636 "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.]]> 2021-05-07 16:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503168636 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503196682 (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.]]> 2021-05-07 16:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503196682 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503237970 "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.]]> 2021-05-07 17:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503237970 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503455290 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.]]> 2021-05-07 17:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503455290 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503484455 "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.]]> 2021-05-07 17:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503484455 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503529392 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.]]> 2021-05-07 18:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1503529392 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1513969093 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 15:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1513969093 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1513988518 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 15:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1513988518 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514007022 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 15:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514007022 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514033167 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 16:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514033167 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514129076 "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. ]]> 2021-05-11 16:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514129076 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514143289 "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. ]]> 2021-05-11 16:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514143289 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514217554 "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. ]]> 2021-05-11 16:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514217554 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514230798 "My sister would love this."

Werner thinks of his sister when he has been separated from her for so long.]]> 2021-05-11 16:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514230798 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514249008 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.]]> 2021-05-11 16:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514249008 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514252623 " '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.]]> 2021-05-11 16:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514252623 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514279406 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 16:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514279406 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514289249 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]]> 2021-05-11 16:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514289249 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514298458 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 16:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514298458 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514549558 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 17:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514549558 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514577624 "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. ]]> 2021-05-11 17:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514577624 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514587067 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 17:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514587067 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514593465 "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.]]> 2021-05-11 17:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1514593465 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521628870 Anthony Doerr

]]> 2021-05-13 16:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521628870 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521630081 Historical Fiction]]> 2021-05-13 16:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521630081 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521630959 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. ]]> 2021-05-13 16:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521630959 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521634045 For our background we chose Saint-Malo, the city where the primary story takes place.]]> 2021-05-13 16:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521634045 nr251520 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521672114 4 out of 5 ]]> 2021-05-13 16:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521672114 am181251 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521679133 -Sexual content
-Violence
-Drugs
-Mature content]]> 2021-05-13 16:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1521679133 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1531893181 2021-05-17 15:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1531893181 ml219351 https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1540251728 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. ]]> 2021-05-19 16:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ml219351/zlbthk88xps6590/wish/1540251728