The life of an Orphan
When people hear the word “orphan” or “orphanage” they usually always cringe and think that these children have had an awful life. But that’s not always the case. In the book All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Werner Pfennig grows up in a place called Zollverein. Werner and his younger sister, Jutta, are raised at the Children’s House orphanage. The Children’s Houses rooms spill over with sick, coughing children ranging from newborns to fifteen year olds. And the children always awake to Frau Elena as “she sings French folk songs in a screechy falsetto..”(Doeer 25). Werner’s parents are both deceased; their father died in the mines. Werner always refers to the mine as the place “down there”. So what is it
When people hear the word “orphan” or “orphanage” they usually always cringe and think that these children have had an awful life. But that’s not always the case. In the book All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Werner Pfennig grows up in a place called Zollverein. Werner and his younger sister, Jutta, are raised at the Children’s House orphanage. The Children’s Houses rooms spill over with sick, coughing children ranging from newborns to fifteen year olds. And the children always awake to Frau Elena as “she sings French folk songs in a screechy falsetto..”(Doeer 25). Werner’s parents are both deceased; their father died in the mines. Werner always refers to the mine as the place “down there”. So what is it