For my self-assessment project over the book “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr, I have created a newspaper titled “The Saint-Malo Monthly”. This title incorporates Saint-Malo, the setting of most of the book. This newspaper is set in August of 1944, which is when the war was at its climax and the major events of the story took place. My first news article is titled “The Mystery of the Sea of Flames”. It is about the legend, looks, and location of the Sea of Flames, a diamond Marie-Laure is introduced to at a young age. Most of the article describes the curse that people believe is on the diamond: “If you hold it, you cannot die, but the people around you die within a month,” (50). This diamond later impacts Marie-Laure’s life, causing her dad to disappear, Madame Manec to die, and
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Because this newspaper is supposed to be published in 1944, I chose not to include their actual names in the article because this would put them all in grave danger. Instead, I focused on the simple things they did to fight back: “Nothing so bold as that. But we could do smaller things. Simpler things,” (249). I wrote about the rebel broadcast because they are important to the plot by allowing Werner and Marie-Laure meet. I chose to include a weather section which forecast clouds and a chance of rain. This is symbolic of the dreary times and the mood of the people in Saint-Malo. My next piece is an advertisement for the bakery where Marie-Laure goes to pick up the bread with the secret messages hidden inside: “Nine more storm drains to the bakery. I go to the counter and say, ‘One ordinary loaf, please,’” (322). I imagine Madame Ruelle, the owner of the bakery, putting this ad in the newspaper in order to help with business, but also to gain more customers in order to draw attention away from Marie-Laure and their
Because this newspaper is supposed to be published in 1944, I chose not to include their actual names in the article because this would put them all in grave danger. Instead, I focused on the simple things they did to fight back: “Nothing so bold as that. But we could do smaller things. Simpler things,” (249). I wrote about the rebel broadcast because they are important to the plot by allowing Werner and Marie-Laure meet. I chose to include a weather section which forecast clouds and a chance of rain. This is symbolic of the dreary times and the mood of the people in Saint-Malo. My next piece is an advertisement for the bakery where Marie-Laure goes to pick up the bread with the secret messages hidden inside: “Nine more storm drains to the bakery. I go to the counter and say, ‘One ordinary loaf, please,’” (322). I imagine Madame Ruelle, the owner of the bakery, putting this ad in the newspaper in order to help with business, but also to gain more customers in order to draw attention away from Marie-Laure and their