Chapter 4 Protagonist/s: Marie-Laure LeBlanc/ Werner Pfennig Antagonists: Germans Time: 8th August 1944 Setting: Saint-Malo, France Summary: Von Rumpel learns where Etienne’s house is located, and enters the house. Werner and Volkheimer are still trapped under the hotel. They try to think of a way out. Werner is still trying to fix the radio even though he had concluded that it is broken beyond repair. Marie-Laure finds 2 cans of food. The bombing seemed to have stopped, so she went to the bathroom. Then she hears that someone had entered the house. Theme: This chapter is significantly slower paced. It provides insight to the characters inner thoughts. Werner is still trapped under the thick layer of rubble. He starts to question why he is still alive, he thinks of his sins in the past; He felt like he had betrayed his sister. The slow pace of the story also increases the narrative tension as the stranger (Von …show more content…
He states that he has been taken well care of. She keeps going to the beach with Madam Manec, and learns the way without guidance. Madam Manec and other old women create a group to resist against the German rule. The group begins to work mischief against the Germans. One of the resisters, Hubert Bazin leads Marie-Laure to a locked grotto, and gives the key(of the grotto) to her. Madam Manec is also given what kinds of information that will be valuable for the Allies. She asks Etienne to help her by transmitting the information using the radio in the attic, but he refuses. Hubert Bazin disappears. Policemen come to Etienne’s house to report what had happened to Marie-Laure’s father. Etienne becomes even more paranoiac and bans the resistant meetings in his house. Madame Manec gets pneumonia; she recovers then relapses and passes away. Marie-Laure receives a letter from her father that if she wants to understand his disappearance she must look “inside Etienne’s house, inside the house” (289,chapter