Throughout the book Marie-Laure shares her feelings with the reader. Anthony Doerr splendidly masters while describing her emotion in words, giving the reader a change to also experience her ups and downs, and see the reflection of her personality in her actions. Goals are one of the criteria by which character’s believability is judged, consequently the author of this novel spawns few of them for his main character Marie-Laure. She is a dreamer whose imagination is the only thing that she can see, before the war she her dream was to see the sea and walk on a wet sand, and she fulfilled her dream but under the horrible circumstances. Forced to escape from Paris they found themselves in Saint-Malo, where her granduncle lives.(118) Short after
