All The Light We Cannot See Character Analysis

In Anthony Doer’s All the Light We Cannot See, the heroine of the story, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, is put in an unfamiliar and novel environment, and as a result finds herself alienated and isolated. Marie is blind and shy, characteristics which had already set her apart from everybody else for her entire life. But once France is overrun by the German Nazi’s and her father is taken away, life becomes even harder for her. For example, unlike everybody else, Marie is unable to read any of the pamphlets the Allies had been putting out, urging people to flee. Furthermore, the prevalence of the Nazi’s in her hometown and everywhere around her, bringing in their culture, books, and language, makes everything seem unfamiliar, furthering the idea that she