Some parts of 'All the Light we Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr are still relevant today. For example; at the end of the book when Jutta has to travel to France to return Marie-Laure's tiny wooden house that was given to Werner, she takes a French train. While on the train with her six year old son Max, she is surrounded by French people who can obviously tell that she is German. She catches one man's eye and starts to panic. " 'Maybe he smells the German. He'll say, You did this to me. Please. Not in front of my son.' " She is so afraid of being found German and in turn being blamed, mocked, and hated for everything that Germany did to France. Mind you that this is almost 60 years after the War and French Resistance, (making it 2004), and she is still petrified by it. She was not even in France when it happened, a soldier for Germany, or working for or agreeing with the Nazis in any way, but because there is still anger in France, she is afraid. The book shows that, while France may be free, and Nazis are no longer in power, and World War Two is over, the feelings that it left behind are far from gone yet.
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dIYA
5/14/2017 11:33:11 am
good job!!! i like the connections and how descriptive you are. but what is the connection to today?
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