All The Light We Cannot See Argumentative Essay Samples

Anthony Doerr is multiple award-winning author who wrote the novel All the Light We Cannot See. The novel is about a German Boy and a blind French girl whom collided in France as they try to survive the wrath of the Second World War. Doerr describes Marie-Laure as a young girl who lives in Paris adjacent to the Museum of Natural History with her father, who is a locksmith. Marie-Laure’s mother had early died while giving birth. At a tender of six, Maria- Laure goes blind and her father built her a delightful miniature next to their home so that she can memorize it by touch and able to get the way her home. The Nazis occupied Paris when the girl was twelve, and she flee with her father to Saint-Malo, a city on the coast of Brittany where her uncle lives. Before running away, Marie-Laure is able to survive the destruction of the city by using the miniature. Saint-Malo is occupied by thousands of the German and the Allied forces who have destroyed much of the coastal town. Another character in the story is Werner, an orphan who lived with her sister in a mining town in Germany. He father died some few years ago at the mines. Werner could crude on any electronic device, majorly radios they found on their way. Later on, Werner developed expertise in building and fixing new instruments. His talent enable Werner to join a brutal academy for Hitler Youth. Using his intelligence, he was able to travel through the intense war, and finally reach Saint-Malo, where she meets Marie-Laure.
Through the story, Anthony Doerr is able to bring out several themes pertaining the real world events. One of the event that comes out clearly from the story is the effects of war and conflicts. The story is set in Saint-Malo, a coastal city in France experiencing conflict between the Allied Forces and the Germany. The blind, Maure- Laure and her father are seen running away from their home to seek refuge from in their great-uncle in Saint-Malo, Etienne, who is still also suffering from the effects of the Great War. Maure-Laure’s father never got the peace they were expecting at Etienne’s place. Her father was given the title of the Sea of Flame, but he was later arrested by the Germans, and take way, leaving Laure alone with her uncle and his housekeeper. The effects of the war are devastating, Saint- Malo is destroyed by the forces, even before Maure- Laure and his father arrives at the town. The disappearance of his father makes Maure- Laure lonely, and loose his fatherly love.
Another theme that Doerr brings in the story is the use of media and science to influence war and conflicts. Werner, who is an Albino is a talented radio mechanic. His prowess attracted the attention of the Nazis, who sends him to a national school to be trained as an expertise for the Third Reich. While in school, he witnessed how German brutalized his friend Frederick. This is Werner got to learn more about the Germans, their way of live, and the brutality they have. Doerr is able to show how screwed Werner is while at the German school.
After finishing school, the Nazis assigns Werner task to hunt down all the hidden radios of the Resistance, who are the enemies in the war. The Resistance whom are supporting the French hides a radio transmitter in the room where which Marie-Laure lives and later evacuated. The plot of the story is intentionally set to enable Marie-Laure and Werner to meet. Doerr brings out also the role of science in the success of war. The Nazis are able to utilize the talent of Werner in mechanics to prowess their defense in the war. They embraced technological marvels such as coal and gemstones which are converted to radio waves; hence sending data through nature. The plot can be seen as the basis of the improvement on some aspects of technology such as the radios, and the use of these minerals to send information as radio waves. Doerr depicts Werner’s igneous by tracking radio transmissions across Central Europe and Russia, which he sends them to Saint-Malo, where Etienne uses the Resistance’s radio transmitter to capture the information from their enemies. The Sea of Flame was pursuit, and only got two months after US Air Force bombed the walled city to smithereens after the D-Day landings.
During the war people helps each other. Many refuges are accommodated by countries and their families. They are given relief food, clothing, shelter, and other commodities by the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the host government. In the novel, Marie-Laure’s uncle Etienne hosts her and her father after they ran from war in Paris. The virtue of people helping each other is also explained in the story “My Parent’s Bedroom by Uwem Akpan. Akpan bases his story on the tribal conflict in Rwanda that has caused poverty to many people in the country while some seeking refuge in the neighboring countries. Akpan’s story shows orphan children helps each other to get food in the streets.
Doerr reduces War II is into a conflict between technological prowess and two innocent children. The effects of a real war is devastating. It results migration of populations, deaths people, division of a nation, as in the case of the Germany after defeat by the Allied forces and the destruction of millions of property. Moreover, conflicts causes recruitment of young children to forces as in the case of Werner. Most of them are forced to work for the government at their age, and to make the matter worst, they are not even paid. The lasting effect of war could be the psychological on the people who loses the loved ones during the war. Majority of them could be children, who loses their parents at the events of war, and end up growing orphans throughout their lives. The feelings of witnessing their parents being is unlikely to get out of the minds.
Doerr describes Werner to have fallen into the wrong side of the conflict. This can be explained towards the end of the novel, where Werner meets Marie- Laure, who later becomes his friend. They develops friendship despite coming from nations who are rivaling in the war. In the war, it is better off to support the side which does not use innocent children as their soldiers as in the case of the Allied Forces, who had well-trained and mature soldiers. On joining the Nazis, Werner is misused to capture radio transitions from the Nazis’ enemies. The training of the newly recruited boys in the military academy are also molest. They are told to chase their weakest members in the field and beat them with a rubber hose. They also given mock executions as in the case of a Slavic prisoner who is tied to post and freezes to death on cold water. However, by joining the Germans, Werner could have gained a lot from the war. He is seen rising from a mere young orphan to become a radio transmitter collection critical information for the Nazis participating in the war. Also, Werner is not hurt throughout the war; he could be seen as he got right side. The decision by Werner to join the Nazis is supported the Steven Spielberg’s Schindle’s List, a story of Oskar Schinder who was a Nazi party member. Oskar used in position in the party to save the lives of over one thousand Jews by recruiting them to work in his polis factory. Although, the factory’s conditions was not worthy, Oskar did a marvelous work by saving the Jews
Doerr is able to points out Werner is successfully recruited by the Nazis, fight in the fiends, and afterwards meeting Marie-Laure. However, there are many cases of violence in the novel. Most of it is sadistic and sexualized, as in the case of pornography and horror films. In the novel, Marie-Laure is tortured and raped by a man who broke the downstairs and entered the house she was. The Nazis versus Allied Forces war can be also describes as tormenting for young children, who are used in war. The children are also shown in the story as been heavily affected by the war. The parents are likely to be arrested leaving them alone in homes, where other people may take advantage and molest the child.