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Samenvatting boek ''All the light we cannot see''

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Complete samenvatting van het boek plus vragen en antwoord op vragen zoals verklaar de titel, wat voor structuur zit er in het boek, wat voor betekenissen hebben bepaalde objecten etc.

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All the light we cannot see – Engels boektoets


1. Explain the title of this book
- Omdat marie laure blind is
- Stralingen van de radio die we niet kunnen zien is lager frequentie dus licht die
we niet kunnen zien
- It's a reference first and foremost to all the light we literally cannot see: that is,
the wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum that are beyond the ability of
human eyes to detect (radio waves, of course, being the most relevant). --?
Differnece is frequenty
- Light = love  Love conquers evil
- Seeing vs not seeing (underground)
- Light vs dark
- The diamond has red flames  gives of some light
2. What is the effect of the way this book has been structured? Cam you link this to
the book in some way
- Het geeft spanningen want je wil weten wat er gebeurt in de toekomst en hoe ze
daar terecht zijn gekomen
- Confusing and chaotic  War is also chaotic
- Suspense for the reader
3. What does this book make clear about imagination vs reality?
- Marie laures verbeeldingen zijn veel mooier dan het echte leven.
- Marie Laure and Werner both love reading love stories  escape reality and live
in their own imagination because the war is very hard and difficult  hope for
the future
- Von Rumpel: he wants to live so he wants the sea of flames. He is going to die
because he is ill
- Etienne: he was in ww1  he saw things which there weren’t


Study questions
1. What does this book make clear about good and evil?
- Je weet niet wie goed is doordat het een oorlog is
- Als je bij de verkeerde team zit bekent niet dat je slecht bent als person
- No clear boundary > perspective
- Individual choice
2. What double meaning does the word shell have in this book
- Het is een bom maar ook een normale schelp dus onschuldig vs slecht
- Marie laure geeft zeeschelp aan ettienne  passie van marie – laure
- Positive vs negative
- Symbolic function of shell
- Shell shock
- Seas sells
- In this book: more words with double meanings (mine)
3. Compare Jutta and Fredrick. Are they alike?
- Allebei tegen oorlog

, -Sterke eigen mening
-Beiden iets ergs gebeurd  jutta misbruikt en Fredrick in elkaar geslagen
-Inherently good characters
-Let down by Werner. Jutta leaves him. Werner doesn’t stand up for Frederick
-Capable of making up their own minds
-Doppelgängers  characters the same  also frau Elena and madame Manec 
Werner and Marie Laure
4. What message(s) do you think this book conveys (overdragen, meebrengen)
- Als je bij de verkeerde team zit bekent niet dat je slecht bent als person
- Imagination vs reality  it helps people get through the war because they can
escape reality for a while
- Good vs evil + individual choice  you always have a choice to do good even
though you’re on the wrong team
- Life after war  it’s hard to live after the war but people find a way to move on
- Hope  finding good things when bad things happen


Blindness – seeing not seeing
Feelings of guilt
Bravery
Double meanings/symbols
Doppelgangers

Important objects:
- Sea of flames




Samenvatting

Zero; 7 augustus 1944:
Marie-Laure LeBlanc:
- Is 16 jaar en blind. Ze is opgegroeid in Parijs. Haar moeder is overleden in het kraambed.
- Oom Etienne waarschuwt voor waterafsluiting, dus ze moeten altijd een bad en emmers
met water vol staan.
- Woont momenteel al 4 jaar in huis van haar oom, Rue Vauborel 4, in Saint-Malo aan de
Bretonse kust, dit gebied wordt nog als laatste bezet.
- Ze is blind geraakt maand nadat een bruin huismusje op haar hand ging zitten en hoofd
scheef hielt, ze heeft aangeboren staar.
Werner Pfenning:
- Duitse soldaat, witblond haar, 18 jaar. Bevindt zich in het bijenhotel; L’Hôtel des Abeilles
- Stafonderofficier: Frank Volkheimer
- Genieofficier: Bernd
- Zusje: Jutta, witblond haar, 2 jaar jonger
- Verzorger: Frau Elena, verzorger weeshuis
- Opgegroeid in Zollverein in een weeshuis, vader omgekomen in de mijnen

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