All The Light We Cannot See Book Report

Decent Essays
Nicholas Harthun
Ms. Clemons
CP English III
8 January 2016
Title
The novel All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of a French blind girl, Marie-Laure, and a German Nazi youth boy, Werner. Taking place in WWII, Marie is pushed away from her home in Paris due to the advancing Nazi army. Forced to flee, she and her father move away to the small French coastal town of Saint-Malo where they expect to be safe from the ongoing war. On the other side of the war, Werner is an intelligent and young boy who has a very keen sense of how electronics work, specifially, radios. Due to his bright gift, Werner is taken from his home who’m he was living with his sister in and is put into a nazi youth school. There, he is manipulated into helping the Reiche

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