Society today is accepting of the differences and nuances that make people who they are. However, it has not always been so tolerant. The novel All the Light We Cannot See, shows how intolerant people affect society during World War Two. By the way, the government is brainwashing the German society, the treatment of women, and by the way, children miss out on growing up and learning to make their own decisions shows these effects. In 1934, Marie-Laure LeBlanc is the daughter of a widowed master locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Marie-Laure suffers from rapidly deteriorating eyesight before becoming fully blind at the age of 6. During the 1940 's, an increasing recognition of intolerance leads to the attempted genocide
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I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp 's steel" (Trueman) because he wants soldiers, not children. Doerr takes this vision and incorporates it into All the Light We Cannot See. Children do not learn properly. The government teaches children to be robot-like soldiers that spread the anti-Semitic, prejudice, and unlawful ways of German society in the name of Hitler. "‘This man escaped from a work camp. Tried to violate a farmhouse '… ‘This barbarian would tear out your throat in a second if we let him '" (Doerr 227), says Bastian, the school 's head sergeant. A Jewish man endures a freezing death by all the males at Werner 's school, by the students, because he escapes. To further the event, the school leaves the dead body to freeze and to allow fear to spread within the children. The Nazi 's want children to only know how to hate and judge people, and not accept or welcome differences because that means the children have their own mind to control, which in not acceptable in the Aryan breed. Young people in this time era are unable to have a childhood because they learn to act and think the way adults do. The reality of children going to war is a fringing thought, but it is the way of an intolerant Nazi Germany society: "‘You are very lucky cadet. To serve is an honor. ' ‘When, sir? ' ‘You 'll receive instructions within a fortnight. That 's all. '" (287). Werner is an orphan. One that is sent to Hitler youth at age 11, sent to war at age 15 and altogether this makes up his childhood. Even though it was not the best childhood, it is Werner 's to keep. Werner acts as an adult but ought not to experience enough freedom to know how to handle the pressures of being a Man, instead of a Boy. Children are innocent to all the stress of life that they gradually learn to cope with. Hope is what Werner has until he goes to war.
I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp 's steel" (Trueman) because he wants soldiers, not children. Doerr takes this vision and incorporates it into All the Light We Cannot See. Children do not learn properly. The government teaches children to be robot-like soldiers that spread the anti-Semitic, prejudice, and unlawful ways of German society in the name of Hitler. "‘This man escaped from a work camp. Tried to violate a farmhouse '… ‘This barbarian would tear out your throat in a second if we let him '" (Doerr 227), says Bastian, the school 's head sergeant. A Jewish man endures a freezing death by all the males at Werner 's school, by the students, because he escapes. To further the event, the school leaves the dead body to freeze and to allow fear to spread within the children. The Nazi 's want children to only know how to hate and judge people, and not accept or welcome differences because that means the children have their own mind to control, which in not acceptable in the Aryan breed. Young people in this time era are unable to have a childhood because they learn to act and think the way adults do. The reality of children going to war is a fringing thought, but it is the way of an intolerant Nazi Germany society: "‘You are very lucky cadet. To serve is an honor. ' ‘When, sir? ' ‘You 'll receive instructions within a fortnight. That 's all. '" (287). Werner is an orphan. One that is sent to Hitler youth at age 11, sent to war at age 15 and altogether this makes up his childhood. Even though it was not the best childhood, it is Werner 's to keep. Werner acts as an adult but ought not to experience enough freedom to know how to handle the pressures of being a Man, instead of a Boy. Children are innocent to all the stress of life that they gradually learn to cope with. Hope is what Werner has until he goes to war.