"So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world of light"
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The author additionally implements juxtaposition between the characters and their situation that exposes moral balance connecting good and evil. Marie-Laure overcomes her literal darkness by means of faith and virtue and recognizes others for their honest qualities. Werner, with ingenuity and hair as white as snow, falls to figurative blindness and fails to comprehend the atrocities committed from his technological input. Near the conclusion of his character arc, he receives redemption when his ethicality reasserts itself and compels him to betray his country to save Marie-Laure. The climax of the novel represents unity of polarizing forces where the protagonists finally meet despite their separate journeys.
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One of the primary modes of discourse present in All the Light We Cannot See is expository writing where Anthony Doerr evaluates humanism during World War II and departs from the larger-than-life figures often portrayed. In his inferential analysis of Marie-Laure, the French heroine, and Werner, the German orphan, the author conveys the attributes of relatable individuals that lived during the time. To a further extent, he contrasts Werner's Nazi affiliation with a sympathetic backstory that envokes compassion from the audience and dispels the line between friend and foe. The expository writing connects to the common values shared by all as Doerr explicates, "against all odds, people try to be good to one another" (All the Light We Cannot See).
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