This chapter presents how a multitude of works in literature often allude to biblical narrations when introducing their stories. The title of the novel is in itself a biblical reference of how Jesus returned sight to a blind man, hinting that the overall story would deal with vision in a similar context.
Doerr characterizes Marie-Laure as a Christ figure as, quite ironically considering her condition, she becomes the “eye-opener” for Werner Pfennig. As a cadet for Hitler Youth, the boy falls victim of the academy’s cruel curriculum and is forced into obeying through scare tactics. Parallel to the blind man from the bible, Werner’s suffering is due to spiritual blindness, at one point encouraged by the Frenchman on the radio to “open your
Doerr characterizes Marie-Laure as a Christ figure as, quite ironically considering her condition, she becomes the “eye-opener” for Werner Pfennig. As a cadet for Hitler Youth, the boy falls victim of the academy’s cruel curriculum and is forced into obeying through scare tactics. Parallel to the blind man from the bible, Werner’s suffering is due to spiritual blindness, at one point encouraged by the Frenchman on the radio to “open your