“Werner is listening to the repaired transceiver, feathering the turning knob back and forth, when a girl’s voice says directly into his good ear: At three in the morning I was awakened by a violent blow. He thinks: It’s hunger, the fever, I’m imagining things, my mind is forcing the static to coalesce…” (390) Werner Pfennig, crouching with his headphones, is trying to find German frequencies in order to ask for rescue from the new collapsed Hotel of Bees where they are currently trapped. One of the crew tasked with finding Marie-Laure and Etienne’s “terrorist transmissions named Bernd was hit by a shell six hours prior. Then, he hears Marie-Laure, reading from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, a beacon of hope that he pushes aside, thinking
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In this case, the story would take place in 1950s-1960s East Germany, where a dictatorship (Soviet Union) has taken over half of Germany and resistance movements are springing up, with Werner tasked with finding resistance members and intercepting transmissions, while Marie-Laure would be working for the West German government to receiving transmissions from resistance members. Marie-Laure would not be blind due to advancements in cataract surgery and of course, the invention of the intraocular lens. This defeats the purpose of the title, which is to show the reader that Marie-Laure “sees” the world in ways we normally would not, hence All The Light We Cannot See. Instead of Marie-Laure being part of an occupied country, Werner instead works for the Soviet installed puppet government. Werner never would have died from stepping on a landmine, which ended the story. Instead, the book might of continued on about Werner and Marie-Laure’s eventual crossing of paths after the reunification of
In this case, the story would take place in 1950s-1960s East Germany, where a dictatorship (Soviet Union) has taken over half of Germany and resistance movements are springing up, with Werner tasked with finding resistance members and intercepting transmissions, while Marie-Laure would be working for the West German government to receiving transmissions from resistance members. Marie-Laure would not be blind due to advancements in cataract surgery and of course, the invention of the intraocular lens. This defeats the purpose of the title, which is to show the reader that Marie-Laure “sees” the world in ways we normally would not, hence All The Light We Cannot See. Instead of Marie-Laure being part of an occupied country, Werner instead works for the Soviet installed puppet government. Werner never would have died from stepping on a landmine, which ended the story. Instead, the book might of continued on about Werner and Marie-Laure’s eventual crossing of paths after the reunification of