Essay On All The Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr

All humans have that possession or person that comforts them and carries them through times of crisis and conflict. This something or someone can be life changing in situations that tear people apart. This treasure could be anything from an old dusty book to a significant other. If that prized possession was absent, the individual would be destroyed without it. People rely on their precious commodities to get them through the stressful periods that life throws at them. In All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr showed it could be essential for an individual to keep the most important things close to them during times of difficulty. Marie-Laure LeBlanc was a young girl when she developed the defect of blindness. She lived in Paris with only her father, Daniel LeBlanc, who she admired more than anything. He helped her with the disability in many ways that aided her in her childhood. Marie-Laure was given books written in Braille, and a replica of her community so she could navigate it. Her father worked for the Museum of Natural History located in Paris, and they entrusted him with an incredibly valuable diamond, the Sea of Flames. As rumors of Germany wanting to engage in France swells, Marie-Laure and her trusting father left Paris to …show more content…
She loves her Braille books that her father gave her. They kept her sane and entertained while chaos was creeping in. She particularly enjoyed reading Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under The Sea and Around The World In Eighty Days. “All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads… her fingers walk the tightropes of sentences; in her imagination, she walks the decks of the speedy two-funneled frigate called the Abraham Lincoln.” (Doerr, page 56). Marie-Laure got lost in her reading and it distracted her from the hectic scene that was happening in reality. She gets lost in the books and her imagination takes