“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever,” affirms Anthony Doerr revealing a story buried in World War II through his novel All the Light We Cannot See. Doerr is the Winner of the Pulitzer Award for fiction because of this exquisitely written novel, which transports you back to the 1940s through the author’s imagination and magical writing style. The story takes place in Saint-Malo and follows the parallel lives of two gifted children. Werner, a German orphan boy that his remarkable radio skills grant him the opportunity to attend the Hitler Youth Academy.
The Eighty- Dollar Champion “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” were the first words spoken off the moon, a feat many had doubts that would ever occur. Yet, Neil Armstrong still overcame the negativity to prove others wrong and become the first man to walk on the moon. Nine publishers read and declined the manuscript of one of the most well known book series of this generation. Yet, Harry Potter became an international seller, being translated into 68 different languages, and resulting J.K. Rowling’s net worth go from nothing to over one billion dollars. After being cut from the Green Bay Packers as a fourth-string quarterback, Kurt Warner found a job stocking shelves at a small town grocery store in Iowa.
Throughout history, we have seen many people thinking they can take over on their own, and rule and conquer the world. We have seen it in people, leaders, and much more. You have guys like Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, Stalin, Paul Castellano, John Gotti with many more. They tried to manipulate and conquer but failed because they haven't realized that to rule you need someone else, like Jordan and Pippen, Brady has Belichick and Jay Z had Beyonce. This is also why, you see those people got killed or killed themselves in an attempt to escape reality.
In the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, main character Billie Jo faces several challenging obstacles throughout her lifetime. Getting through these obstacles is the only way Billie Jo can learn to forgive her father as well as herself for their mistakes. Once she learns to stop feeling resentful, and let go, Billie Jo will be able to grow up. The first major challenge Billie Jo faces is when a fire breaks out in her home. The fire ignites when Billie Jo’s mother mistakes a pail of kerosene for water, where,“instead of making coffee, Ma [makes] a rope of fire”(87).
A man’s hardships and obstacles can help define how strong he becomes later in life. In The Light In the Forest, author Conrad Richter writes the story of True Son, a white boy captured and adopted by Indians for eleven years, who overcomes many challenges that help make him a tougher person. Not only did True Son turn out physically strong, but he also became more emotionally and intellectually strong. First, True Son grew up in the Indian lifestyle.
In the novel, A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin, Hattie lives a predictable life, “Every year it is the same” (Martin 15). But, everything changes when she is told about Adam, an uncle she never knew existed. Her mother tells her that he would be visiting for the summer due to the unforeseen closure of the special school for the mentally disabled he been living at. Hattie is told that Adam goes through mood swings; he could be happy one moment, sad the next, and end up really angry.
All the Light We Cannot See is a fascinating novel written by Anthony Doerr about two children growing up during World War II. One of them is a girl, blind at the age of six and lives in France. The second child is boy, chosen to attend an elite school for Nazis. Amongst the many books that I have read in my life, it's the first time I've come across a book like All the Light We Cannot See.
"Foolish woman. Don’t you realize this is just the beginning? We have a chance now to die with dignity." ( 16 )Lithuanian's were taken from their homes with no explanation, treated poorly, and accused of being bad people. Through their journey from Lithuania to Siberia where they are starved and put to work in working camps.
Life or death. Truth or lies. Right or wrong. Life is full of making hard decisions. This book includes tough choices the characters make as they face life-or-death situations.
So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible”(Doerr 369). Werner having been brought up in an environment with this kind of ideology gives insight into the reason for the walls he builds surrounding his hope. Werner having learned to mask his hope and be short-sighted to the horrible reality that surrounds him makes the cause of why he shields himself clear. Marie creates a delusion by filling herself with hope for the return of her father, while Werner turns his head to what goes on around him by his blindness to having hope. When people have hope, one looks toward the future, whereas without hope one lives in the
Walt Masters and Farah Ahmedi they show their compassion by helping others and fleeing off to find safety, and other people are thankful for those acts. Masters demonstrates bravery when he made it to Dawson with Loren Hall to save Loren Hall's claim. Farah Ahmedi shows compassion because she had the courage to find a person to help her on her journey. She lasted the long walk and the terrible circumstances like her prosthetic leg, to escape Afghanistan. These two characters share compassion, bravery, empathy, and kindness to all people.
In A Wrinkle in Time I am going to explain what i liked and disliked in the book/movie. What I disliked was the fact that they took scenes from the book out of the movie. I also don't like that they changed the characterization when remaking the movie. Another thing I don't like is the conflict,and what I mean by that is how it is hard to figure out what the true conflict is: Man v.s. Himself or man v.s man. Last what I dislike the most is the change in mood it goes from creepy to happy to suspence and all over again.
Werner Pfennig, a main character of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, is forced to undergo a great deal as a young German boy. Thrust into the war effort because of his adeptness with technology, Werner is forced to make a multitude difficult decisions that his sister, Jutta, would have disagreed with. For a large portion of his service, Wener does not accept responsibility for the fact that he is involved in the loss of many lives. Similarly, Frederick was reduced to a nearly vegetative state because Werner never stepped in to help him. Nevertheless, Werner is able to make up for these atrocities by helping to save the life of Marie Laure.
Characters of Some Fascinating Story We are not alike, we loathe one another. Forced to share a space, trapped in the mind of a decrepit writer that abandoned us here. She doesn’t write our story. Instead she selfishly molds us into her fantasy. And she always dresses us in clothing adorned in rainbows and glitter but we are dark.
“Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, essentially revolves around the struggle of Jing Mei and her constant conflict with her mother. Throughout her life, she is forced into living a life that is not hers, but rather her mom’s vision of a perfect child; because her mother lost everything, which included her parents and kids, so her only hope was through Jing Mei. Jing Mei’s mom watches TV shows such as the Ed Sullivan Show, which gives her inspiration that her daughter should be like the people and actors. First her mom saw how on the television a three-year-old boy can name all the capitals of the states and foreign countries and would even pronounce it correctly. Her mom would quiz Jing Mei on capitals of certain places, only to discover that
