Lizzie Murphy
G. Richey
World History
May 5, 2017
People everywhere are limited by things that are hard to control. Whether your limitation is psychological or physical they all keep you from being the best version of yourself. Sickness, mental disorders, reputations, family, all these things keep people trapped in a toxic mindset. Some learn how to cope but others will always be slowed down by their entrapments. Even the strongest people deal with rough patches in their lives and I feel like this book does a great job of displaying that. In the novel All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr proves that everyone is entrapped by their own psychological or physical limitations.
Marie-Laure, a young girl, blind from cataracts, lived in pre …show more content…
Later in their stay the Germans collected all radios but skipped over the one hidden away in their attic. Marie-Laure's father is called back to the Museum but is arrested on his way there. Schulpforta, the Nazi school, is worse than Werner had imagined, he finds his only friend in a fragile boy named Frederick with a love for birds. Frederick is picked out as the weakest and is brutally beaten, resulting in permanent brain damage. Werner’s brilliant mind is soon recognized and he is chosen to train with Dr. Hauptmann locating radio …show more content…
He changed his destiny with the discovery of a radio and immediately wanted more for his future, to study in Berlin under the great scientists. Werner’s expectations for himself were close to impossible, which the vice minister made sure he knew, ““The only place your brother will be going, little girl, is into the mines. As soon as he turns fifteen. Same as every other boy in this house,”” (Doerr p.58). This only made Werner eager to prove him wrong. Once Werner got accepted into Schulpforta his expectations rose once again, he was honored for his great mind by being chosen to work with Dr. Hauptmann locating radio broadcasts. Werner was caught up in trying to decipher right from wrong, which he wasn't too successful at until he was sent to the military where he realized, at the expense of an innocent young girl, that what he was doing was unjustifiable. “On the floor is a woman, one arm swept backward as if she had been refused a dance, and inside the closet is not a radio but a child sitting on her bottom with a bullet through her head. Werner waits for the child to blink,” (Doerr p. 368). Werner was surrounded with death in the military, it was never an issue until he was the cause of
G. Richey
World History
May 5, 2017
People everywhere are limited by things that are hard to control. Whether your limitation is psychological or physical they all keep you from being the best version of yourself. Sickness, mental disorders, reputations, family, all these things keep people trapped in a toxic mindset. Some learn how to cope but others will always be slowed down by their entrapments. Even the strongest people deal with rough patches in their lives and I feel like this book does a great job of displaying that. In the novel All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr proves that everyone is entrapped by their own psychological or physical limitations.
Marie-Laure, a young girl, blind from cataracts, lived in pre …show more content…
Later in their stay the Germans collected all radios but skipped over the one hidden away in their attic. Marie-Laure's father is called back to the Museum but is arrested on his way there. Schulpforta, the Nazi school, is worse than Werner had imagined, he finds his only friend in a fragile boy named Frederick with a love for birds. Frederick is picked out as the weakest and is brutally beaten, resulting in permanent brain damage. Werner’s brilliant mind is soon recognized and he is chosen to train with Dr. Hauptmann locating radio …show more content…
He changed his destiny with the discovery of a radio and immediately wanted more for his future, to study in Berlin under the great scientists. Werner’s expectations for himself were close to impossible, which the vice minister made sure he knew, ““The only place your brother will be going, little girl, is into the mines. As soon as he turns fifteen. Same as every other boy in this house,”” (Doerr p.58). This only made Werner eager to prove him wrong. Once Werner got accepted into Schulpforta his expectations rose once again, he was honored for his great mind by being chosen to work with Dr. Hauptmann locating radio broadcasts. Werner was caught up in trying to decipher right from wrong, which he wasn't too successful at until he was sent to the military where he realized, at the expense of an innocent young girl, that what he was doing was unjustifiable. “On the floor is a woman, one arm swept backward as if she had been refused a dance, and inside the closet is not a radio but a child sitting on her bottom with a bullet through her head. Werner waits for the child to blink,” (Doerr p. 368). Werner was surrounded with death in the military, it was never an issue until he was the cause of