Chapter 0
Protagonist/s: Marie-Laure LeBlanc/ Werner Pfennig
Antagonists: Germans
Time: 7th August 1944
Setting: Saint-Malo, France
Summary: Hours before the bombs are dropped in the city of Saint-Malo; leaflets are dropped to inform the inhabitants to evacuate. The story’s main characters/protagonists, 16-year-old Marie-Laure and 18-year-old Werner Pfennig both have not yet evacuated.
Marie-Laure is a blind girl. She is alone in her great-uncle, Etienne’s house.
Werner is a soldier in the German army, staying at “the Hotel of Bees”.
Marie-Laure is fumbling with a model her father made of the city of Saint-Malo. The model carries a sacred diamond inside named the Sea of Flames. Werner on the other hand takes shelter with his fellow soldiers in the cellar.
The bombing then begins.
Theme: The audience first feels a little confused, as there is very little information provided of why everything is happening. This chapter clearly has not introduced the characters properly and the story starts during the climax, the crisis. The uncertainty the audience first feels is used on purpose to intensify the …show more content…
They live near a coal mine where we learn that their father died in. Werner is a very intelligent and curious boy. While Werner and Jutta were out exploring together, they found a broken radio and brought it back to the orphanage. Werner studied the machine and fixed it. Through the radio, they listen to Nazi propaganda and science. Werner also found a book about mechanics and it is soon confiscated from him because the author is Jewish. He is told that he is going to work in the mines just like all the boys in Zollverein when he turns 15. However, he gets an unexpected chance to escape the coalmines when he fixes the radio of rich and powerful man named Rudolf Siedler. Siedler is impressed by the boy and writes a letter of recommendation to the school for Nazi
Protagonist/s: Marie-Laure LeBlanc/ Werner Pfennig
Antagonists: Germans
Time: 7th August 1944
Setting: Saint-Malo, France
Summary: Hours before the bombs are dropped in the city of Saint-Malo; leaflets are dropped to inform the inhabitants to evacuate. The story’s main characters/protagonists, 16-year-old Marie-Laure and 18-year-old Werner Pfennig both have not yet evacuated.
Marie-Laure is a blind girl. She is alone in her great-uncle, Etienne’s house.
Werner is a soldier in the German army, staying at “the Hotel of Bees”.
Marie-Laure is fumbling with a model her father made of the city of Saint-Malo. The model carries a sacred diamond inside named the Sea of Flames. Werner on the other hand takes shelter with his fellow soldiers in the cellar.
The bombing then begins.
Theme: The audience first feels a little confused, as there is very little information provided of why everything is happening. This chapter clearly has not introduced the characters properly and the story starts during the climax, the crisis. The uncertainty the audience first feels is used on purpose to intensify the …show more content…
They live near a coal mine where we learn that their father died in. Werner is a very intelligent and curious boy. While Werner and Jutta were out exploring together, they found a broken radio and brought it back to the orphanage. Werner studied the machine and fixed it. Through the radio, they listen to Nazi propaganda and science. Werner also found a book about mechanics and it is soon confiscated from him because the author is Jewish. He is told that he is going to work in the mines just like all the boys in Zollverein when he turns 15. However, he gets an unexpected chance to escape the coalmines when he fixes the radio of rich and powerful man named Rudolf Siedler. Siedler is impressed by the boy and writes a letter of recommendation to the school for Nazi