‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Reveals To Us How the World Survives - News18

The future belongs to Gen Z and theirs are the voices that need to be heard. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr illuminates to us the morality that man still holds within, that might flicker occasionally, but is still very much there, ingrained in our cores, our truest selves. The protagonists are Marie-Laure, a blind French girl who seeks sanctuary at her uncle’s home in Saint-Malo after Paris is razed by the Nazis and her father is arrested, and Werner Pfenning, a brilliant German boy who is condemned to an unfruitful life in a coal mine when he joins a Nazi school. The story revolves around Werner and Marie-Laure’s many barriers in making something of themselves in a war where everybody is forgotten. As Werner and Marie-Laure’s stories intersect, Doerr makes us realise how distressing the realities of war were, and through his laconic and ephemeral sentences, shows us how fleeting life can be.