Helpers in Life
Helpers are very important in people's lives. Helpers can help people through their every day. In the novel, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Werner Pfennig, and Marie-Laure LeBlanc both have multiples helpers in their lives. Marie- Laure, blind from the age six and on has faced tough challenges due to her blindness. She and her father, Daniel LeBlanc move to Saint-Malo in North Western France at age twelve due to the Nazis occupying Paris. Werner’s father had been killed in a mining accident during Werner’s younger years. Afflicted by his death he grows up in an orphanage. He spends his teen years at General Heissmeyer school where he becomes a radio expert. He is sent to the eastern front …show more content…
Hauptmann. He teaches Werner trigonometry and to find the location of a radio broadcast using trigonometry. Hauptman can not apprehend how brilliant Werner is. “Hauptmann’s blue eyes glitter; he looks like someone who has discovered something very valuable lying right in front if him on the ground. ‘If I give you the known points and a distance between them, cadet, can you solve it? Can you draw the triangle?’ ‘I believe so.”’ (Doerr 153.) Every night Werner Dr. Hauptmann orders Werner to work in the lab every night. “Every evening Werner works in Dr. Hauptmann's Lab, alternately plugging numbers into triangulation formulas or engineering: Hauptmann wants him to improve the efficiency and power of a directional radio transceiver he is designing.” (Doerr 183.) Hauptmann teaches Werner trigonometry which he also uses when he is enrolled into the military. Dr. Hauptmann lies and states that Werner age is 18 and he joins a team that has to pursue radio telecasts that were againsts the Germans. He meets Marie-Laure and falls in love. During an assignment, Werner hears Marie-Laure and she fears for her life. Werner tracks her down and saves her. Werner helped Marie-Laure flee the city and they split apart. Werner is taken as a prisoner and gets very
Helpers are very important in people's lives. Helpers can help people through their every day. In the novel, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Werner Pfennig, and Marie-Laure LeBlanc both have multiples helpers in their lives. Marie- Laure, blind from the age six and on has faced tough challenges due to her blindness. She and her father, Daniel LeBlanc move to Saint-Malo in North Western France at age twelve due to the Nazis occupying Paris. Werner’s father had been killed in a mining accident during Werner’s younger years. Afflicted by his death he grows up in an orphanage. He spends his teen years at General Heissmeyer school where he becomes a radio expert. He is sent to the eastern front …show more content…
Hauptmann. He teaches Werner trigonometry and to find the location of a radio broadcast using trigonometry. Hauptman can not apprehend how brilliant Werner is. “Hauptmann’s blue eyes glitter; he looks like someone who has discovered something very valuable lying right in front if him on the ground. ‘If I give you the known points and a distance between them, cadet, can you solve it? Can you draw the triangle?’ ‘I believe so.”’ (Doerr 153.) Every night Werner Dr. Hauptmann orders Werner to work in the lab every night. “Every evening Werner works in Dr. Hauptmann's Lab, alternately plugging numbers into triangulation formulas or engineering: Hauptmann wants him to improve the efficiency and power of a directional radio transceiver he is designing.” (Doerr 183.) Hauptmann teaches Werner trigonometry which he also uses when he is enrolled into the military. Dr. Hauptmann lies and states that Werner age is 18 and he joins a team that has to pursue radio telecasts that were againsts the Germans. He meets Marie-Laure and falls in love. During an assignment, Werner hears Marie-Laure and she fears for her life. Werner tracks her down and saves her. Werner helped Marie-Laure flee the city and they split apart. Werner is taken as a prisoner and gets very