All The Light We Cannot See Essay

The book “All the light we cannot see” is a historical novel written by a well-known author, Anthony Doerr. The book was mainly set in German and France at the time of World War II. The Cleveland born author, Anthony Doerr, wrote many books like; The Shell Collector, Memory wall, the memoir, four seasons in Rome, and About Grace. He now lives with his wife and two sons. Doerr used metaphors in his book by adding a special something in his characters. Marie-Laure is one of the main character in his book, who lived in Paris, France. What he added to this character is making her blind. The other main character is Werner; a German orphan boy. The special thing about this character is, he as a little “grey space” between his heart that good and evil are divided. Werner usually does the bad things without understanding how bad it is, even though his attentive sister, Jutta, tries to show him it’s bad.
Not everyone is the same physically and mentally. One might be fully capable to do something physically, but not mentally. …show more content…
I, personally enjoyed the book especially the ending. The book talks about good and evil in a spectacular way that any reader would enjoy it. It uses a well-organized metaphor that may be a bit confusing for the readers at the beginning but rather interesting at the end. The warm hearted girl, Marie-Laure, is much-admired in the book. So it Werner, but not in the same way as Marie-Laure. Von Rumpel was a German soldier who was diagnosed by cancer. What he almost did seems vile, but people forget it was a judgment call; a call for life or death. Von Rumpel taught me something. Sometimes good is bad and evil is good. Evil and good more like opinions. It differs from one point of view to another. If one thing is good based on our culture and evil for others, does that mean we are evil? Think about