Book Report: All The Light We Cannot See

James Jia
Mrs. Broderick
American Literature
21 December 2015
The Lights We Cannot See Kindle Our Conscious and Humanity
The novel All the light We Cannot See is a fiction story set during World War two, written by American Anthony Doerr and published in 2014. It tells a story between a blind French girl Marie-Laure and a Germany boy Werner. The father of the girl was a museum locksmith who keeps all the keys in the museum, and there was a diamond called “Sea of Flames” in this museum that the rumor says who ever keeps the diamond, they will be protected, but their families of the keeper love will die instead, and the diamond was kept in the museum until the war comes. At the same time in Germany, there was a boy named Werner, his father

But after six years in 1940, German invaded France, before Pairs was about to be occupied, the museum curator made three fake diamonds of the “Sea of Flame” and gave it to four people and told them to go to different places to protect it, the father of Marie-Laure was one of them. But when they got to the place where the diamond supposes to go, the place was already boomed into flame and ashes, they were forced to go to her uncles in Saint-Malo. In Saint-Malo, her father made a new model of the diamond, and gave the one from the museum to Marie-Laure. Unfortunately, the diamond Marie-Laure had was the real one, and the curse seemed to be true: her father was sent to camp and her aunt died of flue. And at the same time in Germany, the boy Werner grew up too, and four years later in 1944, he was sixteen while the frontline of Germany was collapsing, lots of kids was changed ages to 18 and “legally” sent to the army, Werner was one of them, and his company was sent to Saint-Malo where Marie-Laure was. After a boom run, the city was on fire, and a Germany jeweler found her, she

And the story was outstanding, it showed the Cruelness of the war from two kids perspective and their surroundings and I learned that the war is a wrong way to solve problems, innocent kids and people was suffering during wars, because of some benefit for certain people, all the other innocent people have to pay for it, it is not fair. There was a iPad game called “This War of Mine” in the game people have to steal others supplies to survive even they don not want to, but that is the way it is during the war, it tells us the war not just hurt us physically, but also mentally destroying us, making us to do things that we are not willing to do, morally made us suffer. And it taught not just those suffering people also the world how cruel the war can be and how it destroys millions of families and broken hearts, showed people’s ultimate desire of Peace in the