All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Marie-father Laure’s works as the master of the Museum of Natural History’s numerous locks, and they both reside in Paris close to the museum. Marie-Laure loses her sight when she is six, so her father creates an exact scale model of their neighbourhood so she can learn it by touch and find her way home. When Marie-Laure is twelve years old, the Nazis have taken over Paris, and her father and daughter leave for Saint-Malo, a walled city where Marie-great Laure’s uncle lives alone in a tall home by the sea. They may be transporting the most priceless and hazardous treasure in the museum.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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The orphan Werner grows up in a mining village in Germany with his younger sister, fascinated by a rudimentary radio they discover. Werner develops into a specialist at creating and maintaining these vital new tools, a skill that earns him admission to a harsh Hitler Youth academy and a specific task to find the Resistance. Werner journeys through the heart of the battle, becoming increasingly conscious of the human cost of his intellect, and ultimately arrives in Saint-Malo, where the stories of him and Marie-Laure converge.
The events in the lives of a blind French girl named Marie-Laure LeBlanc and a German boy named Werner Pfennig are masterfully juxtaposed by the author. Their lives eventually cross at the book’s conclusion.
The blind French child, Marie-Laure, resides in Paris with her father. Congenital cataracts caused her to go blind at age 6. To make up for her lack of sight, she has improved her other senses, including hearing, touch, and scent. When she explores her surroundings with her other senses, she can see colours in her imagination. To help her understand how to get home on her own, her father carves wooden reproductions of every building in Paris.
He tells her that he would always be there for her and never abandon her. He is a highly loyal and caring father who teaches her independence. He is the Museum of Natural History’s master locksmith. When her father works, Marie-Laure, a bright and inquisitive young girl, goes to work with him and learns palaeontology, archaeology, geology, and other scientific fields with Dr Gefford.
Werner, the youngster, resides in the “Children’s House” orphanage in Zollverein, Germany. The orphanage’s children are perilously close to becoming hungry. Many people in the population are starving to death and live in extreme poverty. The economic situation substantially improves when Hitler becomes an office. They are receiving new appliances and extra food, including meat.
Radio propaganda is continuously broadcast to the German public. There can only be German radio stations subsidized by the government. The people of Germany have been indoctrinated. The populace believes that Hitler is assisting them in overcoming poverty, creating a better society, and regaining pride in their nation.
Werner, though, thinks the future is grim. The boys in the orphanage are informed by Nazi officials that when they turn 15 they will all be required to work in the coal mines. As Werner’s father had perished in the coal mines, the idea of being underground in the mines’ gloomy pit does not sit well with him.
Werner fixes a broken radio he discovered in the garbage. He has the opportunity to leave the coal mines and enrol in paramilitary school thanks to his fascination with radios and his aptitude for repairing them. He can contribute to the new Germany while pursuing his passion for radio technology. He sees a dazzling future.
Werner and his sister Jutta had listened to international radio stations that were forbidden under Nazi control when they were in the orphanage’s attic. They were captivated by a French radio program featuring science lectures. How wonderful it was to hear a distant voice carried by air! Jutta enjoyed a magnets-related program.
