There are two main characters. The first being Marie-Laure, a blind French girl who lives with her father in Paris. Marie-Laure was not always blind, congenial cataracts caused her vision to deteriorate at a very young age. She has an amazing memory. She is able to navigate her whole city from memorizing it with the help of her father. As demonstrated in this line: “Marie-Laure draws maps in her head, unreels a hundred yards of imaginary twine, and then reels it back in.” (pg.44). Through the rest of the story she has to deal with an entirely new place with other people which she has to deal with and this builds her confidence. “When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people I was brave. But it is not bravery:
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Even though it occurs so early in the book it shows Werner’s way of thinking throughout the story. How, even though he sees everything that is wrong, he just chooses to ignore it and go along with everyone else in order to avoid harm to himself. The author uses indirect characterization with these characters. The reader can see that Werner is intelligent and very interested in learning from his actions in the first few chapters he is in, not from the narrator telling about him. “While the other children play hopscotch in the alley or swim in the canal, Werner sits alone in his upstairs dormer, experimenting with the radio receiver. In just a week he can dismantle and rebuild it with his eyes closed.” (pg.38) Through this line the reader can clearly understand how smart Werner is by seeing him learn how to assemble and disassemble the radio in such a short period of time and at such a young age. In addition to that, he even fixes it enough for it to fully work. The only things the narrator explains about the characters is their emotions at the time, age, and a basic description of their
Even though it occurs so early in the book it shows Werner’s way of thinking throughout the story. How, even though he sees everything that is wrong, he just chooses to ignore it and go along with everyone else in order to avoid harm to himself. The author uses indirect characterization with these characters. The reader can see that Werner is intelligent and very interested in learning from his actions in the first few chapters he is in, not from the narrator telling about him. “While the other children play hopscotch in the alley or swim in the canal, Werner sits alone in his upstairs dormer, experimenting with the radio receiver. In just a week he can dismantle and rebuild it with his eyes closed.” (pg.38) Through this line the reader can clearly understand how smart Werner is by seeing him learn how to assemble and disassemble the radio in such a short period of time and at such a young age. In addition to that, he even fixes it enough for it to fully work. The only things the narrator explains about the characters is their emotions at the time, age, and a basic description of their