Homework Assignment #5 One of the many themes presented throughout the novel, All the Light We Cannot See, is darkness and light. The novel continuously utilizes symbolism darkness and light, particularly through the theme of visibility. Beside the act of physically seeing, this topic goes a lot deeper than that. The book presents a more profound importance of the light and the dark: that of good and evil, and of the spots where they cover. Early in the book, on page 24, the author describes Werner Pfennig. Werner is said to have ‘hair as white as snow”. White is a known symbol for pureness, and as seen through the course of the novel, Werner lives a lifestyle that is far from pure. Werner is stuck in a phase of delirium all throughout the